Isosurface Display of 3-D Scalar Fields from a Meteorological Model on Google Earth

Abstract

This report documents the implementation of the marching cubes algorithm for constructing isosurfaces of a three-dimensional scalar field for display within Google Earth. It also describes a user-friendly Google Earth graphical user interface (GUI) menu designed to accomplish this task with minimal input from the user. The resulting isosurface is then displayed automatically in Google Earth s three-dimensional display and saved in a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file. This GUI is developed specifically to support the Three-Dimensional Wind Field (3DWF) model in order to showcase its results and capabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA582182

Entities

People

  • Chatt Williamson
  • Giap Huynh
  • Yansen Wang

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Geometry
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Graphics
  • Grids
  • Html
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Language
  • Markup Languages
  • Military Research
  • Terrain Following
  • Three Dimensional
  • User Friendly
  • User Interface
  • Visualizations

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.