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Environmental Visualization Program (EVP):Environmental Visualization Program (EVP):Summary of CapabilitiesSummary of Capabilities

NOAA/NESDIS/ORANOAA/NESDIS/ORA

Dan PisutDan Pisut

EVP Manager (IMSG)EVP Manager (IMSG)

dan.pisut@noaa.govdan.pisut@noaa.gov

301.713.0933301.713.0933

EVP BackgroundEVP Background

Started in 1999, the EVP has produced high quality visualizations for a variety of clients including:

NOAA and NESDIS Headquarters

Media outlets (television, print, internet)

Publications (magazines, books, reports)

Educational and commercial requestors

Graphic Design Page layout Image design and manipulation

Satellite Visualizations Geo-referenced imagery 3-D rendering Enhanced time series animations

Video and Sound Production

EVP Capabilities

The EVP graphic designers have produced professional and visually stimulating layouts for NOAA and NESDIS annual reports, budgets, and other releases.

EVP Products – Graphic Design

EVP: The media’s source for hurricane imagery

Program Goals

• Develop a strategic Media Plan

• Increased variety of products

• Bi-weekly media release of NOAA material

• Improve the EVP website

• Promoting environmental literacy

• More complex visualization methods

• Develop client-base with exhibitors

Diversifying our products

• More informative hurricane

animations

• Remote sensing

• Global and regional scales

• Layers of information

The EVP is one of two major production studios for the Ocean Hall for still images, animations, and the Science on a Sphere exhibit

EVP Products – Smithsonian Ocean Hall

• Increased use of NOAA research

• Enhance visual appeal and understanding for media use

• Animated time-series

Incorporating ORA Research

• Satellite resolution vs. image resolution…they’re not the same!

• NOAA needs greater exposure, but also high quality exposure.

• We need to being considering outreach when developing and outputting models.

Increasing NOAA’s exposure to the public

Image from Coral Watch website

Satellite technologyconstrains on scale

EVP enhanced global imagery

Air Date: 4/16/2006

Enhanced Version

• Contours instead of pixels

• Smoothing between boundaries

• Cooperation

• Communication

• Conceptualization

• Proper Imagery– Highest resolution possible

(dimensions and dpi)

– “Clean images”

– Correct file types (geo-tif, png, jpg, bmp)

• Updates

What we need from you…

Aired 5/16/2006

Accumulated rainfall animation: May floods in New EnglandNESDIS/ORA research product

• Monday 9 am: contact Bob Kuligowski Bob Kuligowski

• Bob modifies images to suit our needs

• GrADS ‘gxout’ output ‘shaded’ instead of ‘grfill’

• Command: ‘gxpng’ increases spatial res.

• Map background, color scale, annotation removed

• FTP and/or WinZip files for delivery

• EVP process images by 5pm

– Resize hi-res map to fit data map

– Overlay images in Adobe AfterEffects

– Adjust frame-rate, zooms, codecs, etc.

• Tuesday 10-11 am: process image updates

– Two hours to update previous animation

• Release to Public Affairs, airs at 6pm

Case Study: New England floods

3400 x 4400 pixels

• Novel hurricane animations

• African drought time-series

• 3D models of satellite orbits

• Continued HAB updates

• Aerosol and ozone animations

• Polar imagery

Current Projects

Horn of Africa drought

New hurricane forecast model

Satellite animations

La Niña

Questions?

Colorized IR imagery of Hurricane Katrina that has been distributed to the National Hurricane Center, PBS, and NBC