LCnkWZnds: Interactive Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization

Great advances in sensor and computer technologies,

coupled with the ability to transport sensors to remote

locations such as deep in the ocean orfar into space

have resulted in an ever-increasingflood of data, which,

to be useful, must be transported, stwed and analyzed

in a timely manner. Observational systems, computa-

tions and computer simulations are being applied in

almost allfields of human endeavor in efforts to under-

stand ourselves and our world. The system desm.bed

here gmu out of a NASA research project at the Jet

Propulsion Laboratory. Its goal is to study the applica-

tion of computer graphics to the problems of rapidly

and interactively exploring and analyzing uery large

amounts of scientific data gathered dun’ng the execution

of observations, computah’ons, or computer simulations.

Allan 5. JaCObSOn

Anrlrew L. Berkin

Martin N. Orton