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High-efficiency method for 3D visualization of marine environmental information

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With the rapid development of digital earth, there are higher demands for the virtual of true feeling marine environments and the reveal of the rules hidden in multi-source data. First, an efficient 3D Delaunay algorithm which improves the speed by establishing relative relationship of nodes and optimizing the new tetrahedral construction is proposed to visualize the large scale dataset of scalar field, then, an adaptive visualization method to resolve the problem of overlapping effects caused by excessive noise or omitting important details caused by less noise is put forward to visualize the vector field dataset, finally, the integration of scalar field dataset and vector field dataset are visualized by the presented fusion platform. The main contributions are: (1) the improved 3D Delaunay algorithm can visualize marine temperature dataset efficiently. (2) the adaptive LIC visualization method can visualize flowing cloud data and storm surge data legibly. (3) the proposed fusion platform can visualize temperature field data and wind field data perfectly.

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This work was supported by the Open Fund Project of Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Ocean University of China (No. kloe201901), and the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (Grant number SKLEC-KF201707).

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  1. Dalian Naval Academy, Dalian, 116018, China

    Li Chun-xin & Zheng Chong-wei

  2. Marine Resources and Environment Research Group On the Maritime Silk Road, Dalian, 116018, China

    Zheng Chong-wei

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Chun-xin Li presented the algorithms and wrote the whole manuscript.

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Li, Cx., Zheng, Cw. High-efficiency method for 3D visualization of marine environmental information. Earth Sci Inform 16, 367–377 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-023-00946-4

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