A geoscience perspective on immersive 3D gridded data visualization

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1056-1072

  Billen, Magali I ^a,b   Kreylos, Oliver ^a,c   Hamann, Bernd ^a,c   Jadamec, Margarete A ^a,b   Kellogg, Louise H ^a,b   Staadt, Oliver ^a,c   Sumner, Dawn Y ^a,b  

^a WM Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences (KeckCAVES)   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

3D data visualization; Immersive visualization; Interactive exploration; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; REAL TIME; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 45049087312     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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