IN32B:
Innovative Visualization Technologies for Earth and Space Science Applications III: Immersive Technologies

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Session ID#: 35019

Session Description:
Data visualization is a rapidly evolving field, offering new approaches to explore scientific data. Emerging technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR) are being explored as effective, intuitive, and compelling methods for visualizing multidimensional geospatial datasets to enhance research, exploration and analysis. The ability to visualize Earth and planetary science data within these new environments allows users to “see” data differently and glean new insights relating to structures and geometries, multivariate correlations and relationships, statistical quantities, and geophysical processes. The tools and platforms available for producing scientific visualizations offer many choices that come with advantages and disadvantages. We must ensure that the visualizations we develop are accurate, useful, and informative, while taking into account ease of use, cost of implementation, data and software compatibility, and community preferences. This session invites presentations focused on new and innovative work in data visualization in support of the Earth and Space sciences.
Primary Convener:  Alexandria Ware, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Charles K Thompson1, Kristopher William Larsen2 and Christian Alarcon1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States(2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Charles K Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Christian Alarcon, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Charles K Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1992 Virtual globes [INFORMATICS]
1994 Visualization and portrayal [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Building Virtual Mars (246153)
Stewart Parker Abercrombie, Alexander Menzies and Charles Goddard, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Immersive Visual Data Analysis For Geoscience Using Commodity VR Hardware (285965)
Oliver Kreylos, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Louise H Kellogg, UC Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
Meteorological Data Visualization in Multi-User Virtual Reality (289623)
Peter-Paul van Maanen1, Rick Appleton2, Ward I Fisher3 and Robbert Krijnen2, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)TNO, The Hague, Netherlands, (3)UCAR, Unidata, Boulder, CO, United States
Transduction between worlds: using virtual and mixed reality for earth and planetary science (294203)
Nick Hedley1, Ian Lochhead2, Sonja Aagesen2, Christopher D Lonergan2 and Nicholas Benoy2, (1)Simon Fraser University, Spatial Interface Research Laboratory, Burnaby, BC, Canada, (2)Simon Fraser University, Geography, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Augmented Virtuality: A Real-time Process for Presenting Real-world Visual Sensory Information in an Immersive Virtual Environment for Planetary Exploration (266591)
Alireza Tavakkoli1, Jace Regenbrecht2, Brandon Wilson1 and David McFadden1, (1)University of Houston, Victoria, TX, United States, (2)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Along the Virtuality Continuum - Two Showcases on how xR Technologies Transform Geoscience Research and Education (282989)
Alexander Klippel1, Jiayan Zhao1, Arif Masrur2, Jan Oliver Wallgruen1 and Peter C La Femina3, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geography, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Redlands, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
IMMERSIVE EARTH SCIENCE: DATA VISUALIZATION IN VIRTUAL REALITY (264317)
Shayna Solis, Navteca, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Ramon Ramirez-Linan, NASA GSFC / Navteca, Greenbelt, United States

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