This project expands the scope of research undertaken within CODES and the Discipline of Earth Sciences into geodata analytics and innovative visualisation strategies. By utilising the existing expertise in technique development and the practical application of methods in computational geophysics and Earth informatics, the project focusses on using the visualisation as part of the data inference process, rather than being simply a way of viewing the final output.
2015 saw the release of the beta version of the ‘Tagger’ application, developed by PhD student Peter Morse, for the reconnaissance analysis of large volumes of geosciences data. This application combines high-performance graphics with the ability to work with scientific format data located locally or on a cloud-based platform. Peter gave an invited talk at the ‘IEEE International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics’, held in Hobart. Amongst other topics, he presented an overview of the visualisation process behind the Pausiris Mummy exhibit (commissioned for the opening of MONA in 2011).