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Using 3D GIS Animations to Conduct and Convey Scientific Research
Track: Modeling
Author(s): Serkan Bozkurt, Shinji Toda, Ross Stein

In 2004 we started a scientific project to study the earthquake risk in Tokyo. The 22 earth scientists from 9 scientific organizations that comprise Team Tokyo have assembled high quality data sets and applied cutting-edge technologies, resulting in 15 publications in leading scientific journals. In this presentation we will be showing a 5-minute animation where 3D Analyst and stereo shutter glass 3D monitors were used to explore the spatial distribution of 300,000 earthquakes beneath Tokyo, and led to a discovery of a dislodged tectonic fragment. This visualization helped us to build our hypothesis, as well as to share it with other scientists and the general public. 3D visualizations and animations are playing a major role in the process of scientific research and they are becoming a new language to communicate with others. We integrated ArcGIS with Adobe Premiere and Flash to create this advanced animation. For more information visit http://sicarius.wr.usgs.gov/tokyo on the Web.

Serkan Bozkurt
Geomatrix Consultants, Inc
Geosciences
2101 Webster Street
12th Floor
Oakland , CA 94612-3011
US
Phone: (510) 663-4242
E-mail: sbozkurt@geomatrix.com

Shinji Toda
Geological Survey of Japan
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
AIST, Site 7, 1-1-1 Higashi
Tsukuba , Ibaraki 205-8567
JP
Phone: +81-29-861-3691
E-mail: s-toda@aist.go.jp

Ross Stein
U.S. Geological Survey
Earthquake Hazards Team
345 Middlefield Rd.
MS977
Menlo Park , CA 94025
US
Phone: 650 3294840
E-mail: rstein@usgs.gov