Visual Analytics of Multi-sensor Weather Information - Georeferenciation of Doppler Weather Radar and Weather Stations

Aitor Moreno, Andoni Galdós, Andoni Mujika, Álvaro Segura

2014

Abstract

This work presents a geovisual tool which integrates and georeferences data coming from some of the weather instruments installed in the Basque Country: a Doppler weather radar and the weather station network composed of around 100 multi-sensors stations (temperature, precipitation, wind...). The visualization of the raw data coming from the weather radar is based on the generation of a set of 3D textured concentric cones (one per elevation scan). The resulting 3D model is then integrated in the 3D digital terrain of the Basque Country. For the weather stations, we have provided a Kriging based interpolation method to produce textures from the scalar data measured at the weather stations. These textures are then mapped in the same 3D digital terrain as before. The integrated visualization of the weather information enhances the understanding of the data. To illustrate the proposed methods a use case is provided: matching the precipitation measured at ground level with the radar scans.

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Moreno A., Galdós A., Mujika A. and Segura Á. (2014). Visual Analytics of Multi-sensor Weather Information - Georeferenciation of Doppler Weather Radar and Weather Stations . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-005-5, pages 329-336. DOI: 10.5220/0004677603290336


in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp14,
author={Aitor Moreno and Andoni Galdós and Andoni Mujika and Álvaro Segura},
title={Visual Analytics of Multi-sensor Weather Information - Georeferenciation of Doppler Weather Radar and Weather Stations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={329-336},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004677603290336},
isbn={978-989-758-005-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
TI - Visual Analytics of Multi-sensor Weather Information - Georeferenciation of Doppler Weather Radar and Weather Stations
SN - 978-989-758-005-5
AU - Moreno A.
AU - Galdós A.
AU - Mujika A.
AU - Segura Á.
PY - 2014
SP - 329
EP - 336
DO - 10.5220/0004677603290336