VRML '00 Proceedings of the fifth symposium on Virtual reality modeling language (Web3D-VRML)
Creating 3D oceanographic data visualizations for the web
Proceedings of the seventh international conference on 3D Web technology
Level of Detail for 3D Graphics
Level of Detail for 3D Graphics
Using VRML to share large volumes of complex 3D geoscientific information via the Web
Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on 3D web technology
Proposed enhancements to the X3D geospatial component
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on 3D Web Technology
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute operates two Remotely Operated Vehicles that routinely explore the depths of the ocean at sites around the north eastern Pacific Ocean. Our growing archive of observations -- which include high frequency navigation and environmental records, video frame grabs, sampling events, annotations of the video record, and multi-beam sonar bathymetric maps of the dive areas -- represents a rich resource for scientific studies. Recent advances in commodity 3D computer graphics hardware and tools created by the GeoVRML working group have enabled efficient and easy-to-use visualizations of these data via a standard web browser. Visualizations of MBARI's 3,000-plus ROV dives are now available via our internal web-based Expedition database. The GeoVRML implementation allows for geospatially accurate representation of any ROV dive made anywhere on the globe. The system has been in place at MBARI for over two years and use of it is growing. According to people who have used it the system is not just cool but also useful.