Google/PSU Summer of Code

There is plenty of interest in showing subsurface data sets in virtual worlds like Google Earth or NASA WorldWind. A proof-of-concept project needs to be done to show how this would possibly look.

NASA WorldWind is an open source Java project that is a perfect candidate for this.

Specifically we will take one or two data sets of different scales and regional extents that have negative elevation values and plot them in the subsurface. We may just modify the opacity of the surface in order to see what’s below. Just getting that far would be a major accomplishment in visualizing subsurface data.