A case study on multiresolution visualization of local rainfall from weather radar measurements

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 533-536

  Gerstner, Thomas ^a   Meetschen, Dirk ^a   Crewell, Susanne ^a   Griebel, Michael ^a   Simmer, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Level of detail; Multiresolution isosurface extraction; Triangular and tetrahedral grid refinement

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

MULTIRESOLUTION VISUALIZATION;

RAIN;

EID: 0036450579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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