Earth science data visualization based on cross-platform 3D game engine

摘要

Data visualization is important process in other to understand various simulated data regarding objects that we cannot observe directly in space field and complicated and multidimensional data in remote sensing field. Nevertheless, for science data visualization, researchers have used precious specific software or have implemented visualization tools directly with a lot of effort using additional mathematical knowledge and program technic. In order to overcome this problem we propose a data visualization using Unity which is taken center stage recently in game development field. The Unity which has a powerful rendering engine enough for data visualization provides intuitive graphic user interface to enable non-programmer to use various functions of the engine and build functions to distribute various platform such as Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, etc. The experimental results show that our method can utilized for various space application such as satellite simulation, meteorological data visualization application, space weather monitoring application and science education presentation application.