Visualization of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Copyright (C) 2003.  Kurt Schwehr

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USAGE

As a student you are free to use the lectures for your own use.  If
you are an instructor and would like to use part or all of this
lecture series, please contact me.  I will give you permission to use
the material.  I mostly would like to know who is using this material.
If you are doing commercial training classes, I would appreciate
contribution back to the project.  I would like to get a little
support to produce more classes!


INTRODUCTION


This class is being done in the spirit of Open Course Work(OCW).
There are a number of classes that inspired this online class.  You
should check them out based on your interests.

Open Knowledge Initiative (http://web.mit.edu/oki/index.html)


MIT's OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu)

MIT has put a wide range of course materials on line.  I have yet to
go through one of the classes beyond a couple minutes, but they look
good.  I recommend checking out the "Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science" section for programming and computer skills.  Also,
Ocean Engineering looks exciting.  Unfortunately, there is only one
class in the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.


Lisa Tauxe's PaleoMag and Earth 010 classes

http://magician.ucsd.edu/~ltauxe/sio247/
http://sorcerer.ucsd.edu/erth10/

Genny Tauxe produced some excellent demos of what you can do with a
video camera and Flash:

http://http://magician.ucsd.edu/~gtauxe/Lab_tour/labtour.html


COURSE GOALS

The goal of this series of lectures is to get people going on
visualizing a wide range of data sets that are frequently encountered
in Earth and planetary science research.


FUTURE TOPICS may include:

Processing spacecraft images
Using Blender 3D


FEEDBACK

Feedback is greatly appreciated.  I am always looking for suggestion
and corrections.  If there is something you would like to see added,
just ask.  The worst that could happen is that I will add the
requested material :)


ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

http://oss.sgi.com/projects (look down at Graphics Projects for Open
Inventor)

http://www.coin3d.org

News Groups:

http://google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.vrml
http://google.com/groups?group=comp.graphics.api.inventor