“Visualization laboratory for Earth Sciences: a multidisciplinary visual learning environment”
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- Visualization laboratory for Earth Sciences: a multidisciplinary visual learning environment
Abstract:
Modern technology allows to improve teaching methologies by allowing interactivity and to involve more senses in the learning process at an affordable price. In particular, visual learning has proved to be a very important way to understand otherwise elusive scientific principles. Our Visualization Laboratory for Earth Sciences is aiming to be a visual learning environment for Earth Science graduate students and at the same time to be a training platform for Computer Science undergraduates specializing in Graphics Application Programming. The importance of visual learning, specifically for Earth Sciences, has been examined previously [McGrath and Brown 2005], [Reynolds 2005].
References:
1. McGrath, M. B., and Brown, J. R. 2005. Visual learning for science and engineering. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 25, 56–63.
2. Reynolds, S. J. 2005. The hidden earth: Visualization of geologic features and their subsurface geometry. AAAS Press, 141–146.
