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AN: OS51A-0176    [Abstracts]
TI: The CoreWall Project: An Update for 2007
AU: Yu-Chung Chen, J
EM: julian9@gmail.com
AF: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Science (MC 152) Room 1120 SEO University of Illinois at Chicago 851 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607-7053, United States
AU: Higgins, S
EM: shiggins@joiscience.org
AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Marine Geology and Geophysics, 61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964-8000, United States
AU: Hur, H
EM: beinglikeanne@gmail.com
AF: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Science (MC 152) Room 1120 SEO University of Illinois at Chicago 851 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607-7053, United States
AU: Ito, E
EM: eito@umn.edu
AF: Limological Research Center, Department of Geology and Geophysics University of Minnesota 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55104, United States
AU: Jenkins, C J
EM: chris.jenkins@colorado.edu
AF: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado 1560 30th Street, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, United States
AU: Johnson, A
EM: lenzman@mac.com
AF: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Science (MC 152) Room 1120 SEO University of Illinois at Chicago 851 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607-7053, United States
AU: Leigh, J
EM: spiff@evl.uic.edu
AF: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Science (MC 152) Room 1120 SEO University of Illinois at Chicago 851 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607-7053, United States
AU: * Morin, P
EM: lpaul@umn.edu
AF: Limological Research Center, Department of Geology and Geophysics University of Minnesota 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55104, United States
AU: Lee, J
AF: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Science (MC 152) Room 1120 SEO University of Illinois at Chicago 851 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607-7053, United States
AB: The CoreWall Suite is a NSF-supported collaborative development for a real-time core description (Corelyzer), stratigraphic correlation (Correlater), and data visualization (CoreNavigator) software to be used by the marine, terrestrial and Antarctic science communities. The overall goal of the Corewall software development is to bring portable cross-platform tools to the broader drilling and coring communities to expand and enhance data visualization and enhance collaborative integration of multiple datasets. The CoreWall Project is now in its second year and significant progress has been made on all 3 software components. Corelyzer has undergone 2 field deployments and testing by ANDRILL program in 2006 (and again in Fall 2007) and by ICDP's SAFOD project (summer 2007). In addition, Corewall group and ICDP are working together so that the core description (DIS) system can expose DIS core data directly into Corelyzer seamlessly and be available to future ICDP and IODP-Mission Specific Platform expeditions. Educators have also taken note of the software's ease of use and strong visualization capabilities to begin exploring curriculum projects with Corelyzer software. To ensure that the software development is integrated with other community IT activities the development of the U.S. IODP-Phase 2 Scientific Ocean Drilling Vessel (SODV), a Steering Committee was constituted. It is composed of key U.S. IODP and related database (e.g., CHRONOS, SedDB) developers and users as well as representatives of other core-based enterprises (e.g., ANDRILL, ICDP, LacCore). Corelyzer (CoreWall's main visual core description tool) software displays digital core images from one or more cores along with discrete data streams (eg. physical properties, downhole logs) and nested images (eg. thin sections, fossils) to provide a robust approach to the description of sediment cores. Corelyzer's digital image handling allows the cores to be viewed from micron to km scale determined by the image resolution along a sliding plane, effectively making it a "digital microscope". Detailed features such as lithologic variation, macroscopic grain size variation, bioturbation intensity, chemical composition and micropaleontology are easier to interpret and annotate. Significant new capabilities have been added to allow for importing multiple images and data types, sharing/exporting Corelyzer "work sessions" for multiple users, enhanced annotations, as well as support for other activities like examining clasts, and sample requests. The new Correlator software, the updated version of Splicer/Sagan software used by ODP for over 10 years, has been ported into a single new analysis tool that will work across multiple platforms and interact seamlessly with both JANUS (ODP's relational database), CHRONOS, PetDB, SedDB, dbSEABED and other databases. This functionality will result in a CoreWall Suite module that can be used and distributed anywhere for stratigraphic and age correlation tasks. CoreNavigator, a spatial data discovery tool, has taken on a virtual Globe interface that allows users to enter Corelyzer from a geographic-visual standpoint.
UR: http://www.corewall.org/
DE: 0430 Computational methods and data processing
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
DE: 1819 Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
DE: 3036 Ocean drilling
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting