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Abstract
Processing and Visualization of Oceanographic Data in 2.5 and 3DTrack: Ocean, Coastal, and Marine Resources
Author(s): Tiffany C. Vance, Nazila Merati
NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) and Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC), both in Seattle, collect a wealth of data about the physical and biological characteristics of the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. The data is stored in a variety of formats in a variety of legacy data systems. AFSC makes extensive use of a GIS to store their data. PMEL has growing expertise in visualizing scientific data. Routines have been developed to take data from a variety of sources that have not previously been GIS compatible. ArcView GIS and ArcView 3D Analyst have been used to create a series of VRML visualizations of this data. Some of the VRML files have been created directly from 3D Analyst; others have required extensive postprocessing. The use of EVS to create true 3D visualizations will also be shown.
Tiffany C. Vance
NOAA/PMEL
7600 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115
USA
Phone: 206) 526-6767
Fax: 206) 526-6485
E-mail: vance@pmel.noaa.gov