Virtual reality for geosciences visualization

Proceedings - 3rd Asia Pacific Computer Human Interaction, APCHI 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 196-201

  Lin, Ching Rong ^a   Loffin, R Bowen ^a   Stark, Tracy ^b  

^a University of Houston ^*  (United States)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

GEOLOGICAL SURFACE; GEOSCIENCES; GEOSCIENTISTS; SEISMIC DATAS; SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL SEISMIC DATA; VERTICAL SLICES;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84983171382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APCHI.1998.704208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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