Parallel visualization of seismic wave propagation

Today parallel visualization of massive datasets from observation and numerical simulation of seismic waves is one of the major goals of geoscience community. A majority of these datasets are time-varying volume data (TVVD), also known as 4D field data. The difficulty of visualizing them on distribu...

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Published inVisual Geosciences Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 117 - 124
Main Authors Zhang, Huai, Chen, Shaolin, Chen, Shi, Chen, Si, Jing, Huimin, Yuen, David A., Shi, Yaolin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Subjects
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Environment
Geology
Geophysics/Geodesy
Mineralogy
Original Article
High-resolution display matrix
3D seismic wave propagation
Parallel visualization
Parallel rendering
Massive data sets
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Summary:Today parallel visualization of massive datasets from observation and numerical simulation of seismic waves is one of the major goals of geoscience community. A majority of these datasets are time-varying volume data (TVVD), also known as 4D field data. The difficulty of visualizing them on distributed parallel system mainly lies in the algorithm designing for distributed preprocessing of raw datasets, hierarchical point-to-point or collective communication implementation based on distributed data allocation, synchronous volume rendering techniques. In this work we present viable solutions for preprocessing of raw data sets, novel algorithms of parallel rendering and display matrix. Our main objective is focused on the parallel visualization of results coming from full 4D seismic wave propagation simulations.
ISSN:1610-2924
DOI:10.1007/s10069-008-0014-y