KEYWORDS: Visualization, Water, Information visualization, Data modeling, Visual analytics, Data visualization, Scientific visualization, Visual process modeling, Solids, Data analysis
The water monitoring network in Northern California provides us with an integrated flow and water-quality
dataset of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the reservoirs, and the two main rivers feeding the Delta, namely
the Sacramento and the San Joaquin rivers. Understanding the dynamics and complex interactions among the
components of this large water supply system and how they affect the water quality, and ecological conditions for
fish and wildlife requires the assimilation of large amounts of data. A multivariate, time series data visualization
tool which encompasses various components of the system, in a geographical context, is the most appropriate
solution to this challenge. We have developed an abstract representation of the water system, which uses
various information visualization techniques, like focus+context techniques, graph representation, 3D glyphs,
and colormapping, to visualize time series data of multiple parameters.
We present a method that maps a complex surface geometry to an equally complicated, similar surface. One main objective of our effort is to develop technology for automatically transferring surface annotations from an atlas brain to a subject brain. While macroscopic regions of brain surfaces often correspond, the detailed surface geometry of corresponding areas can vary greatly. We have developed a method that simplifies a subject brain's surface forming an abstract yet spatially descriptive point cloud representation, which we can match to the abstract point cloud representation of the atlas brain using an approach that iteratively improves the correspondence of points. The generation of the point cloud from the original surface is based on surface smoothing, surface simplification, surface classification with respect to curvature estimates, and clustering of uniformly classified regions. Segment mapping is based on spatial partitioning, principal component analysis, rigid affine transformation, and warping based on the thin-plate spline (TPS) method. The result is a mapping between
topological components of the input surfaces allowing for transfer of annotations.
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