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9 - The UNAVCO GEON Integrated Data Viewer for exploration, analysis, and integration of geoscience data

from Part III - Visualization and data representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2011

By
Stuart Wier  and
Charles Meertens
Edited by
G. Randy Keller  and
Chaitanya Baru
Stuart Wier
Affiliation:
UNAVC Inc., USA
Charles Meertens
Affiliation:
UNAVCO Inc., USA
G. Randy Keller
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma
Chaitanya Baru
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

Introduction

Modern geoscience data, like the Earth that they represent, often are 3-D and time-varying, with complexity on all length scales. Finding and studying significant features in such data is greatly improved with new approaches that use interactive 3-D visualizations.

As part of the Geosciences Network (GEON) development efforts, UNAVCO developed the GEON Integrated Data Viewer (IDV), a research-quality application for interactive 3-D display and analysis of geoscience data. The GEON IDV is designed to meet the challenge of investigating complex, multivariate, time-varying geoscience data (Meertens and Wier, 2007; Meertens et al., 2005; Meertens et al., 2006).

The Geosciences Network is a multi-institutional NSF ITR (Information Technology Research) project, and a scientist-centered cyberinfrastructure initiative that provides earth scientists with an array of tools, including data access and integration mechanisms, computational resources, and software for analysis, modeling, and visualization. Needing a powerful tool for visualization and integration of earth science data, one path the GEON team chose was to build on the UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)/Unidata Integrated Data Viewer, an open-source, meteorologically oriented, platform-independent application for visualization and analysis. Unidata's IDV brings together the ability to display and work with satellite imagery, gridded data, surface observations, balloon soundings, NWS WSR-88D Level II and Level III RADAR data, and NOAA National Profiler Network data, all within a unified interface.

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Geoinformatics
Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences
 , pp. 131 - 142
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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