The Spinel Explorer - Interactive Visual Analysis of Spinel Group Minerals

Autores
Ganuza, María Luján; Ferracutti, Gabriela Roxana; Gargiulo, Maria Florencia; Castro, Silvia Mabel; Bjerg, Ernesto Alfredo; Gröller, Eduardo; Matkovic, Kresimir
Año de publicación
2014
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versión publicada
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Geologists usually deal with rocks that are up to several thousand million years old. They try to reconstruct the tectonic settings where these rocks were formed and the history of events that affected them through the geological time. The spinel group minerals provide useful information regarding the geological environment in which the host rocks were formed. They constitute excellent indicators of geological environments (tectonic settings) and are of invaluable help in the search for mineral deposits of economic interest. The current workflow requires the scientists to work with different applications to analyze spine data. They do use specific diagrams, but these are usually not interactive. The current workflow hinders domain experts to fully exploit the potentials of tediously and expensively collected data. In this paper, we introduce the Spinel Explorer-an interactive visual analysis application for spinel group minerals. The design of the Spinel Explorer and of the newly introduced interactions is a result of a careful study of geologists' tasks. The Spinel Explorer includes most of the diagrams commonly used for analyzing spinel group minerals, including 2D binary plots, ternary plots, and 3D Spinel prism plots. Besides specific plots, conventional information visualization views are also integrated in the Spinel Explorer. All views are interactive and linked. The Spinel Explorer supports conventional statistics commonly used in spinel minerals exploration. The statistics views and different data derivation techniques are fully integrated in the system. Besides the Spinel Explorer as newly proposed interactive exploration system, we also describe the identified analysis tasks, and propose a new workflow. We evaluate the Spinel Explorer using real-life data from two locations in Argentina: the Frontal Cordillera in Central Andes and Patagonia. We describe the new findings of the geologists which would have been much more difficult to achieve using the cur- ent workflow only. Very positive feedback from geologists confirms the usefulness of the Spinel Explorer.
Fil: Ganuza, María Luján. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Cs.e Ing.de la Computacion. Laboratorio de Inv. y Des. En Visualizac. y Computac. Grafica; Argentina
Fil: Ferracutti, Gabriela Roxana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Bahía Blanca. Instituto Geológico del Sur; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Gargiulo, Maria Florencia. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Geología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Bahía Blanca. Instituto Geológico del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Castro, Silvia Mabel. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Cs.e Ing.de la Computacion. Laboratorio de Inv. y Des. En Visualizac. y Computac. Grafica; Argentina
Fil: Bjerg, Ernesto Alfredo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Bahía Blanca. Instituto Geológico del Sur; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Gröller, Eduardo. Vienna University of Technology; Austria
Fil: Matkovic, Kresimir. VRVis Research Center Vienna; Austria
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Interactive Visual Analysis
Visualization in Earth
Space And Environmental Sciences
Coordinated And Multiple Views
Design Studies
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spelling The Spinel Explorer - Interactive Visual Analysis of Spinel Group MineralsGanuza, María LujánFerracutti, Gabriela RoxanaGargiulo, Maria FlorenciaCastro, Silvia MabelBjerg, Ernesto AlfredoGröller, EduardoMatkovic, KresimirInteractive Visual AnalysisVisualization in EarthSpace And Environmental SciencesCoordinated And Multiple ViewsDesign Studieshttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.2https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1Geologists usually deal with rocks that are up to several thousand million years old. They try to reconstruct the tectonic settings where these rocks were formed and the history of events that affected them through the geological time. The spinel group minerals provide useful information regarding the geological environment in which the host rocks were formed. They constitute excellent indicators of geological environments (tectonic settings) and are of invaluable help in the search for mineral deposits of economic interest. The current workflow requires the scientists to work with different applications to analyze spine data. They do use specific diagrams, but these are usually not interactive. The current workflow hinders domain experts to fully exploit the potentials of tediously and expensively collected data. In this paper, we introduce the Spinel Explorer-an interactive visual analysis application for spinel group minerals. The design of the Spinel Explorer and of the newly introduced interactions is a result of a careful study of geologists' tasks. The Spinel Explorer includes most of the diagrams commonly used for analyzing spinel group minerals, including 2D binary plots, ternary plots, and 3D Spinel prism plots. Besides specific plots, conventional information visualization views are also integrated in the Spinel Explorer. All views are interactive and linked. The Spinel Explorer supports conventional statistics commonly used in spinel minerals exploration. The statistics views and different data derivation techniques are fully integrated in the system. Besides the Spinel Explorer as newly proposed interactive exploration system, we also describe the identified analysis tasks, and propose a new workflow. We evaluate the Spinel Explorer using real-life data from two locations in Argentina: the Frontal Cordillera in Central Andes and Patagonia. We describe the new findings of the geologists which would have been much more difficult to achieve using the cur- ent workflow only. Very positive feedback from geologists confirms the usefulness of the Spinel Explorer.Fil: Ganuza, María Luján. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Cs.e Ing.de la Computacion. Laboratorio de Inv. y Des. En Visualizac. y Computac. Grafica; ArgentinaFil: Ferracutti, Gabriela Roxana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Bahía Blanca. Instituto Geológico del Sur; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Gargiulo, Maria Florencia. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Geología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Bahía Blanca. Instituto Geológico del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Castro, Silvia Mabel. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Cs.e Ing.de la Computacion. Laboratorio de Inv. y Des. En Visualizac. y Computac. Grafica; ArgentinaFil: Bjerg, Ernesto Alfredo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Bahía Blanca. Instituto Geológico del Sur; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Gröller, Eduardo. Vienna University of Technology; AustriaFil: Matkovic, Kresimir. 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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Spinel Explorer - Interactive Visual Analysis of Spinel Group Minerals
title The Spinel Explorer - Interactive Visual Analysis of Spinel Group Minerals
spellingShingle The Spinel Explorer - Interactive Visual Analysis of Spinel Group Minerals
Ganuza, María Luján
Interactive Visual Analysis
Visualization in Earth
Space And Environmental Sciences
Coordinated And Multiple Views
Design Studies
title_short The Spinel Explorer - Interactive Visual Analysis of Spinel Group Minerals
title_full The Spinel Explorer - Interactive Visual Analysis of Spinel Group Minerals
title_fullStr The Spinel Explorer - Interactive Visual Analysis of Spinel Group Minerals
title_full_unstemmed The Spinel Explorer - Interactive Visual Analysis of Spinel Group Minerals
title_sort The Spinel Explorer - Interactive Visual Analysis of Spinel Group Minerals
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ganuza, María Luján
Ferracutti, Gabriela Roxana
Gargiulo, Maria Florencia
Castro, Silvia Mabel
Bjerg, Ernesto Alfredo
Gröller, Eduardo
Matkovic, Kresimir
author Ganuza, María Luján
author_facet Ganuza, María Luján
Ferracutti, Gabriela Roxana
Gargiulo, Maria Florencia
Castro, Silvia Mabel
Bjerg, Ernesto Alfredo
Gröller, Eduardo
Matkovic, Kresimir
author_role author
author2 Ferracutti, Gabriela Roxana
Gargiulo, Maria Florencia
Castro, Silvia Mabel
Bjerg, Ernesto Alfredo
Gröller, Eduardo
Matkovic, Kresimir
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Interactive Visual Analysis
Visualization in Earth
Space And Environmental Sciences
Coordinated And Multiple Views
Design Studies
topic Interactive Visual Analysis
Visualization in Earth
Space And Environmental Sciences
Coordinated And Multiple Views
Design Studies
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Geologists usually deal with rocks that are up to several thousand million years old. They try to reconstruct the tectonic settings where these rocks were formed and the history of events that affected them through the geological time. The spinel group minerals provide useful information regarding the geological environment in which the host rocks were formed. They constitute excellent indicators of geological environments (tectonic settings) and are of invaluable help in the search for mineral deposits of economic interest. The current workflow requires the scientists to work with different applications to analyze spine data. They do use specific diagrams, but these are usually not interactive. The current workflow hinders domain experts to fully exploit the potentials of tediously and expensively collected data. In this paper, we introduce the Spinel Explorer-an interactive visual analysis application for spinel group minerals. The design of the Spinel Explorer and of the newly introduced interactions is a result of a careful study of geologists' tasks. The Spinel Explorer includes most of the diagrams commonly used for analyzing spinel group minerals, including 2D binary plots, ternary plots, and 3D Spinel prism plots. Besides specific plots, conventional information visualization views are also integrated in the Spinel Explorer. All views are interactive and linked. The Spinel Explorer supports conventional statistics commonly used in spinel minerals exploration. The statistics views and different data derivation techniques are fully integrated in the system. Besides the Spinel Explorer as newly proposed interactive exploration system, we also describe the identified analysis tasks, and propose a new workflow. We evaluate the Spinel Explorer using real-life data from two locations in Argentina: the Frontal Cordillera in Central Andes and Patagonia. We describe the new findings of the geologists which would have been much more difficult to achieve using the cur- ent workflow only. Very positive feedback from geologists confirms the usefulness of the Spinel Explorer.
Fil: Ganuza, María Luján. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Cs.e Ing.de la Computacion. Laboratorio de Inv. y Des. En Visualizac. y Computac. Grafica; Argentina
Fil: Ferracutti, Gabriela Roxana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Bahía Blanca. Instituto Geológico del Sur; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Gargiulo, Maria Florencia. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Geología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Bahía Blanca. Instituto Geológico del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Castro, Silvia Mabel. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Cs.e Ing.de la Computacion. Laboratorio de Inv. y Des. En Visualizac. y Computac. Grafica; Argentina
Fil: Bjerg, Ernesto Alfredo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Bahía Blanca. Instituto Geológico del Sur; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Gröller, Eduardo. Vienna University of Technology; Austria
Fil: Matkovic, Kresimir. VRVis Research Center Vienna; Austria
description Geologists usually deal with rocks that are up to several thousand million years old. They try to reconstruct the tectonic settings where these rocks were formed and the history of events that affected them through the geological time. The spinel group minerals provide useful information regarding the geological environment in which the host rocks were formed. They constitute excellent indicators of geological environments (tectonic settings) and are of invaluable help in the search for mineral deposits of economic interest. The current workflow requires the scientists to work with different applications to analyze spine data. They do use specific diagrams, but these are usually not interactive. The current workflow hinders domain experts to fully exploit the potentials of tediously and expensively collected data. In this paper, we introduce the Spinel Explorer-an interactive visual analysis application for spinel group minerals. The design of the Spinel Explorer and of the newly introduced interactions is a result of a careful study of geologists' tasks. The Spinel Explorer includes most of the diagrams commonly used for analyzing spinel group minerals, including 2D binary plots, ternary plots, and 3D Spinel prism plots. Besides specific plots, conventional information visualization views are also integrated in the Spinel Explorer. All views are interactive and linked. The Spinel Explorer supports conventional statistics commonly used in spinel minerals exploration. The statistics views and different data derivation techniques are fully integrated in the system. Besides the Spinel Explorer as newly proposed interactive exploration system, we also describe the identified analysis tasks, and propose a new workflow. We evaluate the Spinel Explorer using real-life data from two locations in Argentina: the Frontal Cordillera in Central Andes and Patagonia. We describe the new findings of the geologists which would have been much more difficult to achieve using the cur- ent workflow only. Very positive feedback from geologists confirms the usefulness of the Spinel Explorer.
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