Visualization Wall

Visualization Wall

With generous support from the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository in the 21st Century - A Hyperwall for Public Education and Professional Training initiative and from the Advisory Board of Innovation, the Core Repository is proud to present the new Visualization Wall. 

Gulf Stream sea surface currents and temperatures downloaded from the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio.

Technical Specifications 

The Hyperwall is a 3 x 2 array of six 30" Ultrasharp (2560x1600) Dell Monitors powered by a MacPro configured with 12 Intel Xeon cores at 3.06Ghz, 64GB of RAM, and dual high-performance ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB graphic cards.

 Visualization Wall Resources

• NASA Scientific Visualization Studio - offers a wide spectrum of scientific visualizations ranging from annual global ocean current circulation to solar coronal mass ejections.
  • Videos are available in 8K, 4K, 1080, 720, 480 formats. Note - 8K and 4K video must be compiled from the raw video frames using a video editing software

• Short selection of galleries and videos featured on our Hyperwall
  
  • Climate Essentials - Five-Year Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2012, Drought 2010-2012, Antarctic Ice Loss 2003-2013
  • The Ocean - Perpetual Ocean, Gulf Stream Sea Surface Currents and Temperatures, Thermohaline Circulation on a Flat Map, NOAA Visualization of Japanese Tsunami 2011
  • The Land - Amazon Deforestation, Las Vegas 1972-2013, Seeing Photosynthesis From Space
  • The Atmosphere - Monthly Aerosol Particle Radius (Aqua/MODIS), Aqua/AIRS Carbon Dioxide with Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide Overlaid
  • The Polar Regions - Antarctic Bedrock, Sea Ice Yearly Minimum 1979-2013 (SSMI data) with Graph, Daily Arctic Sea Ice during Aug & Sept 2012
  • The Sun - Sun Emits a Solstice CME, Gradient Sun, Van Gogh Sun, Transit of Venus

• CoreWall - CoreWall is a real-time stratigraphic correlation, core description, and data visualization system used by the marine, terrestrial, and Antarctic science communities.
  • Corelyzer is a scalable, extensible visualization tool developed to enhance the study of geological cores.
  • Correlator is used to create composite and spliced stratigraphic sections from multiple cores for core-core and core-log integration.
  • CoreNavigator is a 3D visual indexer of complex core-stratigraphic sedimentary datasets and databases.