A geospatially enabled, PC-based, software to fuse and interactively visualize large 4D/5D data sets

This paper describes the development and main operational capabilities of a PC-based, geospatial enabled software that can fuse and visualize large, multi-variable data sets that change in space (x, y, z) and time (t). The new software has the ability to simultaneously visualize imagery, bathymetry/terrain, and true volumetric (voxel) data in a fully interactive geo-referenced mode. In addition to providing global coverage, a key feature of this software is the capability to interactively visualize large data sets while operating on a desktop PC. This is achieved by using tiling and Level Of Detail (LOD) technology for terrain, imagery, and volumetric data as well as compression techniques and the multithreading capabilities of modern PCs.