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Viewpoints: High Performance Visualization for Large, High-dimensional Space Science, Earth Science, and Engineering Data.
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| Analysis and visualization of extremely large and complex data sets is one of the most significant challenges facing NASA
investigators. Current NASA missions, instruments, and simulations produce so much data of such high dimensionality that they
outstrip the capabilities of traditional visualization and analysis software. Hyperspectral images from satellites, multivariate data of
high dimensionality from sky surveys, time-varying three-dimensional flows from supercomputer simulations, and complex
inter-related time series from vehicle telemetry are but a few examples of these data. We have developed a prototype high performance,
cross platform, data visualization application called viewpoints for graphical exploratory data analysis of large, high-dimensional
NASA science and engineering data sets. The prototype is already in use by approximately 20 NASA scientists and engineers in support
of a broad range of research, development and analysis activities. We propose to leverage this operational experience and the attendant
input from our existing user community to add essential capabilities, transform the prototype into a production system, and deploy it
widely for use by NASA investigators and the general scientific community. |
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