Real-Time Visualizations of Ocean Data Collected By The NORUS Glider

• Main Authors: Daniel Medina, Cal Poly, Zoë J. Wood
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Norway
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.187.4315; http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/%7Ezwood/research/pubs/DmedinaVizPoster.pdf

NORUS, the North America-Norway educational program, has a scientific focus on how climate-induced changes impact the living resources and ecosystems in the Arctic. In order to obtain the necessary science data, the NORUS program utilizes the Slocum Glider, a form of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). This project aims to create a compelling, efficient, and easy to use interactive system for visualizing large sets of science data collected by the glider. This goal is obtained through the implementation of various methods taken from scientific visualization, real time rendering, and scattered data interpolation. Methods include visualizations of the surrounding terrain, the ability to map various science data to glyphs, control over color mapping, scattered data interpolation and interactive camera control. 1