scientific visualization for earthquake science and simulation

Scientific Visualization for Earthquake Science and Simulation

Louise Kellogg, Tony Bernardin, Eric Cowgill, Oliver Kreylos, Mike Oskin, John Rundle, Donald L. Turcotte,

M. Burak YikilmazUC Davis: Geology, Computer Science, & KeckCAVES

Earthscope data Seismic Tomography model (Obrebski, et al 2010)

Scientific visualization research for natural hazards at the KeckCAVES

Virtual Reality User Interface (VRUI)

A platform-independent foundation for development of virtual reality

applications

Lidar Viewer

EarthViewer Crusta 3D

Visualizer

CAVES3D TV

Desktop Laptop

Haiti: January 12, 2010Mw 7.0

• 200,000 – 300,000 fatalities.

• Massive damage from building collapse including houses, govt. buildings, UN headquarters, airport.

Analysis of high-resolution airborne and terrestrial LIDAR after recent events

• Goal:– support rescue and recovery

first – and then to support science

• ~2.7 billion individual point measurements in (3D) space; 66.8 GB on disk

• January 21 – 27, 2010, an area of 850 km2 surveyed using airborne LiDAR at an average density of ~3.2 points/m2

• Funded by World Bank, coordinated by USGS, collected by Rochester Institute of Technology

Working with LIDAR point cloud data

Mapping the fault system

Remote mapping

• Guided field work• Gave consistent

results as found in the field

• Can improve quality and quantity of rapid scientific response

We concluded that the 2010 earthquake was a relatively small event between the 1751

and 1770 ruptures.

El Mayor-Cucapah M 7.2 April 2010

El Mayor-Cucapah M 7.2 April 2010

Credit: Mike Oskin, Ramon Arrowsmith, Alejandro Hinojosa, and Javier Gonzalez

Removing vegetation from LIDAR data

Interactive scientific visualization for rapid response

• Interactive visualization in a VR environment has the potential to completely change rapid scientific response to events

• Visualization of these very large datasets is challenging, but feasible, using octree data representation.

• Human-in-the-loop is essential to interpretation (combined with automated methods)

• Underway: change detection (time series)• Future developments: Coupling data interpretations

with simulations