Community Access to Visualizations of EarthScope Focus Sites: Collaborative Construction of Virtual 3-D Models

社区访问 EarthScope 焦点站点的可视化：虚拟 3D 模型的协作构建

• 批准号: 0545250
• 负责人: Deborah Kilb
• 金额: $ 35.55万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0545250&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Community; Access; Visualizations; EarthScope; Focus

0545250KilbThe EarthScope community is currently experiencing a revolution in the volume and quality of data being collected, with the prospect of enormous amounts of data going on-line within a few years. At the same time, our ability to examine large and highly resolved data, in the face of this growing demand, is limited. This is especially true of heterogeneous datasets from varied sub-disciplines. These data should be easy to inter-compare, but normally this involves a great deal of effort and expertise that prevents common usage and ultimately hinders our ability to understand the inter-dependencies among datasets. Data assimilation and interpretation only become more difficult once the next generation of EarthScope experiments come online and researchers are flooded with ever larger numbers of data streams and even higher sample rates. If applied in a manner that provides community access and ease of use, immersive visualization can be the glue that binds together the various pieces of the geologic puzzle. Toward this end, the Visualization Center at Scripps (http://www.siovizcenter.ucsd.edu) is serving the EarthScope community as a visualization laboratory for the creation, collection and distribution of a library of visual objects (e.g., 3D scenes, movies and on-line tools). These visual objects form the foundation for virtual 3-D Earth models that are archived and made available to the community via established web-based portals.

0545250KilbEarthScope 社区目前正在经历收集数据的数量和质量的革命，预计几年内将有大量数据上线。 与此同时，面对这种不断增长的需求，我们检查大型且高分辨率数据的能力是有限的。 对于来自不同子学科的异构数据集尤其如此。这些数据应该很容易相互比较，但通常这需要大量的努力和专业知识，这会阻碍共同使用，并最终阻碍我们理解数据集之间相互依赖关系的能力。一旦下一代 EarthScope 实验上线，研究人员就会被大量数据流和更高的采样率淹没，数据同化和解释只会变得更加困难。 如果以提供社区访问和易用性的方式应用，沉浸式可视化可以成为将地质难题的各个部分粘合在一起的粘合剂。为此，斯克里普斯可视化中心 (http://www.siovizcenter.ucsd.edu) 作为可视化实验室为 EarthScope 社区提供服务，用于创建、收集和分发视觉对象库（例如 3D 场景、电影和在线工具）。 这些视觉对象构成了虚拟 3D 地球模型的基础，这些模型被存档并通过已建立的基于网络的门户提供给社区。