Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
158 University of North Texas (142046)
Principal Investigator: West,Ruth
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 102,673
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 8/1/22 - 7/31/24
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Design
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Col of Vis Arts & Design
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: GEOS Visualization And Lagrangian dynamics Immersive eXtended Reality Tool (VALIXR) for Scientific Discovery
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
CFDA Link: NASA
43.001
Program Title:
none
CFDA Linked: Aerospace Education Services Program
Note:
This research projects aims to develop a scientific exploration and analysis mixed augmented and virtual reality (XR) tool with integrated Lagrangian Dynamics (LD) to help scientistis identify, track, and understand the evolution of Earth Science phenomena in the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) numerical weather prediction model. This project has wide applicablility to the Earth Sciences, from analysis of smoke plumes moving around the globe, to organized convection in hurricanes, to eddies associated with the polar vortex, and more. Leveraging the NASA open source MRET tool and integrating it with a generalized open-source point cloud system has huge applicability to any Earth Science domain. MRET provides an open-source foundation for collaborative XR with dispersed groups working together in a common 3D space that can combine DEM terrains, 3D engineering models and point clouds, including LIDAR data.
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