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Poster presented at the 2015 All Hands Meeting.

As geoscientists are confronted with increasingly massive datasets from environmental observations to simulations, one of the biggest challenges is having the right tools to gain scientific insight from the data and communicate the understanding to stakeholders. Recent developments in web technologies make it easy to manage, visualize and share large data sets with the public. Novel visualization techniques and dynamic user interfaces allow users to interact with data, and change the parameters to create custom views of the data to gain insight from simulations and environmental observations. This requires developing new data models and intelligent knowledge discovery techniques to explore and extract information from complex computational simulations and large data repositories. Scientific visualization will be an increasingly important part to build comprehensive environmental information platforms. This poster provides an overview of the information visualization and communication tools developed for communicating hydrological and atmospheric observations and modeling results utilizing graphical processing unit and latest web technologies in a web browser. User interface allows user to interact with the data using hand-gestures. The technologies utilized developing the interface includes WebGL, JavaScript, Google Maps API, and Leap Motion hardware.

Suggested Citation: 

Demir, I. (2015), Scientific Visualization of Large-Scale Geospatial Data using Web Technologies. Presented at EarthCube All Hands Meeting, Washington, DC, 27-29 May 2015. http://earthcube.org/document/2015/scientific-visualization-large-scale-geospatial-data