This project expands the scope of research undertaken within CODES and the Discipline of Earth Sciences into geodata analytics and innovative visualisation strategies. During 2019, PhD student Peter Morse continued computational work on both colour usage and interactive volumetric visualisation tailored to data sets in geoscience. Innovations progressed in 2019 include 2.5D compositing for the rapid reconnaissance of 3D volumetric data with a paper being submitted late in the year.

This project expands the scope of research undertaken within CODES and the Discipline of Earth Sciences into geodata analytics and innovative visualisation strategies. During 2018, PhD student Peter Morse continued computational work on both colour usage and interactive volumetric visualisation tailored to data sets in geoscience. A number of innovations were explored during 2018 including the use of L-A-B colour spaces which enable the linearity of a data space to be better matched to the inherently non-linear colour perception of a human analyst.

This project expands the scope of research undertaken within CODES and the Discipline of Earth Sciences into geodata analytics and innovative visualisation strategies. During 2017, PhD student Peter Morse continued computational work making progress on an app for interactive volumetric visualisation of 3D contoured datasets in geoscience.

The flexible nature of the computer application allows colours to be selected with insight into the confidence limits of the data being visualised. This results in a reduction in the number of distracting artefacts in the image seen on the screen and a better capacity to see features that were previously not visible in plan or cross-section slices.

This project expands the scope of research undertaken within CODES and the Discipline of Earth Sciences into geodata analytics and innovative visualisation strategies. By utilising the existing expertise in technique development and the practical application of methods in computational geophysics and Earth informatics, the project focuses on using the visualisation as part of the data inference process, rather than being simply a way of viewing the final output.

During the year, a prototype computer application for the visualisation of 3D seismic datasets was developed to progress the interpretation of seismic tomography images in an interactive framework, focussed on lithosphere-scale investigations. The software combines performance graphics technology with the ability to handle scientific data formats.

This project expands the scope of research undertaken within CODES and the Discipline of Earth Sciences into geodata analytics and innovative visualisation strategies. By utilising the existing expertise in technique development and the practical application of methods in computational geophysics and Earth informatics, the project focusses on using the visualisation as part of the data inference process, rather than being simply a way of viewing the final output.

2015 saw the release of the beta version of the ‘Tagger’ application, developed by PhD student Peter Morse, for the reconnaissance analysis of large volumes of geosciences data. This application combines high-performance graphics with the ability to work with scientific format data located locally or on a cloud-based platform. Peter gave an invited talk at the ‘IEEE International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics’, held in Hobart. Amongst other topics, he presented an overview of the visualisation process behind the Pausiris Mummy exhibit (commissioned for the opening of MONA in 2011).