SVS Projects
At any particular time, the Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS)
is involved in providing visualization products, systems, and expertise
to various NASA projects and missions. This page briefly describes our
current activities, with links to more information.
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Earth Science
Enterprise (ESE)
Informal Education
Through this project, the members of the SVS create animations
and imagery explaining current NASA missions and scientific results. For
each visualization product, a team of scientists, writers, and animators
work together to create products that can be used by the TV and print
media, educators, museums, the public, and anyone else who might need
to explain some NASA result. Most of the actual visualizations found on
this web site are products of this project.
Find out more about the
ESE Informal Education Project
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CT Earth
and Space Science Project
For the last decade, NASA has been a part of the Federal
Computational Technologies (CT) Program, fostering
research and development in high performance information technology. The
CT Earth and Space Science Project at Goddard works to facilitate the
use of these technologies within the Earth and Space Science research
community. The SVS supports this project by providing expertise in visualization
to the researchers funded by the project and by investigating visualization
technologies that can enable use of computational technologies in research. The
SVS also creates a video production describing the project each year for
the Supercomputing conference.
Find out more about the CT Earth
and Space Science Project
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GLOBE Visualization
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) in
an international program whose purpose in to involve the school children
of the work in environmental monitoring and education. The SVS created
the original on-line visualization system used by GLOBE students to investigate
their data. A separate group was spun off to update and maintain this
system and this group maintains close ties to the SVS.
Visit the online GLOBE Visualization System
Find out more about GLOBE
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Earth Today
Earth Today is an award-winning exhibition located in the
Rocketry and Space Flight gallery of the National Air and Space Museum
in Washington DC. This exhibit continuously collects and displays animations
of current data about the Earth. Members of the SVS created the animations
and the software system used in the display. Work is in progress to generalize
this system for use in other museums and public sites and to create a
Digital Earth Data Server to serve the data to the distributed systems.
Find out more about Earth Today
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Digital Earth
The Digital Earth Initiative seeks to enable the creation
of a global environment for the interchange and dissemination of geo-referenced
information about the Earth. Members of the SVS created and maintain the
Digital Earth Workbench, which was one of the early technologies that
fostered the Digital Earth concept. Both the GLOBE Visualization system
and the Earth Today system are Digital Earth systems in that they comply
with emerging Digital Earth standards and protocols.
Find out more about the Digital
Earth
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Missions
The SVS directly supports individual NASA missions by creating
specific visualization products and systems. At this time, the SVS is
working with the following projects:
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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM):
The SVS produces precipitation maps and three-dimensional storm flybys from
TRMM data. |
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The Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter (MOLA):
The SVS is visualizing the surface of Mars from MOLA topography data. Final
visuals will be available in 2001 when the MOLA dataset is released to the
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The NASA Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project
(NSIPP): The SVS is developing
methods for visualizing the multi-variable three-dimensional data that results
from the NSIPP coupled land-ocean-atmosphere model. |
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