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Title: The Geowall:


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The Geowall Stereo visualization for the Earth
Sciences
Peter van Keken University of Michigan Paul
Morin University of Minnesota Jason
Leigh University of Illinois (Chicago) Andy
Johnson University of Illinois (Chicago)
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Goals
  • Develop affordable stereo projection technology
  • Create interfaces to standard applications and
    data sets
  • Improve data querying
  • Develop (inter)national base of users and
    developers the Geowall consortium
  • www.geowall.org

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Tools
  • The Agave/Geowall stereo projection system

priceless
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Cost of a Modest System
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Number of GeoWalls
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Funding within UM Geological Sciences
  • LSA first UM geowall content development
  • Geological Sciences web server miscellanea
  • NSF-Information Technology Research software
    development proposal with EVL at UIC

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Sampling of applications
  • Anything to do with structure and dynamics
  • Seismology earthquakes and tomography
  • Geodynamics convection and mixing
  • Paleontology CAT scans, digi-bones
  • Stereopairs
  • Photography, maps, movies
  • GIS
  • Data layering on topography

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  • Seismology earthquakes and
  • tomography

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GIS data layers on topography
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Paleontology ( Biology!) CAT scans
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Stereo pairs, maps, and movies
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Use in the classroom
Prof. Kacey Lohmann
  • GS117 Physical Geology
  • GS440 Field camp
  • GS420 Geophysics
  • (and extensive use at Minnesota, Arizona
    State)

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Other Geology sites
  • Minnesota (TCDuluth)
  • Arizona State
  • Indiana
  • Fond du Lac tribal and community college
  • Wisconsin (Madison)
  • USGS (Menlo Park and Eros data center)
  • Southern California Earthquake Center
    (Earthscope)
  • UC San Diego
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