IT’S TOO BIG AND TOO DIVERSE: CURRENT ISSUES IN GEOSCIENCE DATA EXPLORATION

MORIN, Paul¹, LEIGH, Jason², DAVIS, Brian³, ITO, Emi¹, JOHNSON, Andrew⁴, RACK, Frank⁵ and THORLEIFSON, Harvey⁶, (1)Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0219, (2)Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Univ of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, (3)Eros Data Center, United States Geol Survey, (4)Electronic Visualization Laboratory and the Dept. of Computer Science, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, (5)Andrill, University of NE-Lincoln, 126 Bessey Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588, (6)Geol Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, K1A 0E8, Canada, lpaul@umn.edu

Current cutting-edge visualization tools have illuminated a number of unexpected data storage, transport and display issues. The deployment of scientific observatories has created integration issues by one disciplines data sources available to experts in other fields. Geochemical, sedimentary, paleomagnetic and GIS databases are all online but do not come together into interoperable interfaces other than Microsoft Excel. Seismic model visualizations are now so large that they can only be run on the Earth Simulator computer in Japan.

We will discuss the issues involved when stereo display is common, screen real estate is limited only by wall size, storage is large and networking is really fast.

Session No. 113

T112. Geologic Time and CHRONOS: Databases, Tools, Outreach, Education, and the Geoinformatics Revolution II

Monday, 8 November 2004: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 36, No. 5, p.273

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