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Immersive Visualization and Interactive Analysis of Ground Penetrating Radar Data

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2011)

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Ground Penetrating Radar is a geophysical technique for obtaining information about sub-surface earth materials. Geologists use the data collected to obtain a view of terrain underground. This data is typically viewed using a desktop interface where the user usually interacts using a keyboard and mouse. Visualizing the data in a slice by slice 2D format can be difficult to interpret. Instead, we created a program for an immersive visualization environment that uses tracked input devices. This is done using real-time, stereoscopic, perspective-corrected, slice-based volume rendering. To aid with the visualization the user can modify the display of the volume using integrated tools, such as transfer functions, lighting, and color maps. Users are also given data analysis tools to take application-specific measurements such as dip, strike, other angles, and distances in 3D. Compared to typical desktop interface interactions, the 6-degree of freedom user interface provided by the immersive visualization environment makes it notably easier to perform the application-specific measurements.

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  1. Desert Research Institute, USA

    Matthew R. Sgambati, Steven Koepnick, Daniel S. Coming & Nicholas Lancaster

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    Frederick C. Harris Jr.

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  1. University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, 89512, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA

    Song Wang

  6. HRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Road, 90265-4797, Malibu, CA, USA

    Kim Kyungnam

  7. Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907-2021, IN, USA

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  8. Sandia National Laboratory, 87185, Albuquerque, NM, USA

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  9. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 70504, LA, USA

    Christoph Borst

  10. Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Stephen DiVerdi

  11. Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 11201, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Chiang Yi-Jen

  12. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 94551-0808, Livermore, CA, USA

    Jiang Ming

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Sgambati, M.R., Koepnick, S., Coming, D.S., Lancaster, N., Harris, F.C. (2011). Immersive Visualization and Interactive Analysis of Ground Penetrating Radar Data. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6939. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24031-7_4

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