Abstract
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 |
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