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An ubiquitous 3D visual analysis platform of seabed

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We built a ‘virtual-world’ of real seabed for the visual analysis. Sub-bottom profile is imported in the 3D environment.” section-drilling” three-dimensional model is designed according to the characteristics of the multi-source comprehensive data under the seabed. In this model, the seabed stratigraphic profile obtained by seismic reflection is digitized into discrete points and interpolated with an approved Krig- ing arithmetic to produce uniform grid in every strata layer. The Delaunay triangular model is then constructed in every layer and calibrated using the drilling data to rec- tify the depth value of the dataset within the buffer. Finally, the constructed 3D seabed stratigraphic model is rendered in every layer by GPU shader engine. Based on this model, two state-of-the-art applications on website explorer and smartphone prove its ubiquitous feature. The resulting ‘3D Seabed’ is used for simulation, visualization, and analysis, by a set of interlinked, real-time layers of information about the 3D Seabed and its analysis result.

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The authors are thankful to the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFC1402000), Shandong Provincial Natural Science Founda- tion (ZR2017QF015), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61902203).

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  2. Marine Data and Information Center, First Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Qingdao, 266061, People’s Republic of China

    Tianyun Su

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Lv, Z., Su, T. An ubiquitous 3D visual analysis platform of seabed. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 34613–34625 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08180-1

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