Title :
Trivariate parametric B-splines for visualization of ocean data
Author :
Tuohy, S.T. ; Yoon, J.W. ; Patrikalakis, N.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ocean Eng., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Describes methods developed in the MIT Design Laboratory for the representation, fitting, interrogation and visualization of trivariate water column data. Features of this work include: reduced dimensional fitting algorithms for efficient data representation and reliable methods for visualizing continuous, trivariate parametric representations of data
Keywords :
computer graphics; data visualisation; geophysics computing; oceanographic techniques; splines (mathematics); MIT Design Laboratory; computer graphics; data representation; data visualisation; data visualization; fitting; interrogation; ocean; parametric representation; reduced dimensional fitting algorithm; representation; salinity; temperature; thermohaline structure; trivariate parametric B-spline; water column data; Data engineering; Data visualization; Design engineering; Laboratories; Lattices; Oceans; Reliability engineering; Spatial databases; Spline; Visual databases;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS '95. MTS/IEEE. Challenges of Our Changing Global Environment. Conference Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-933957-14-9
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.1995.528725
