4DPlates: On the fly visualization of multilayer geoscientific datasets in a plate tectonic environment

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 46-51

  Clark, Stuart R ^a   Skogseid, Jakob ^c   Stensby, Vidar ^b   Smethurst, Mark A ^a,d   Tarrou, Christian ^b   Bruaset, Are Magnus ^a   Thurmond, Allison K ^c  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b KALKULO AS   (Norway)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geological reconstructions; Geospatial visualization; GPU computing; Level of detail; Plate reconstructions; Tectonic subsidence

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FRAMES PER SECONDS; GEOSPATIAL VISUALIZATION; GPU COMPUTING; HIGH RESOLUTION DATA; INTERACTIVE MANIPULATION; LARGE DATASETS; LEVEL OF DETAIL; ON THE FLIES; PLATE RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT DENSITIES; SEDIMENT LOADING; SOUTH ATLANTIC; TEST DATA; TREE STRUCTURES; VIEW DEPENDENT VISUALIZATION;

LOADING; REPAIR; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PLATE TECTONICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC SETTING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VISUALIZATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84862215598     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2012.03.015     Document Type: Article

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