Visualization of Remotely-Sensed Heliospheric Plasmas
Abstract
We demonstrate a software application designed for the display and real-time manipulation of 3D heliospheric volume data, such as solar wind density, velocity and magnetic field. The software exploits the capabilities of the Volume Pro 1000 (from TeraRecon, Inc.), a low-cost 64-bit PCI board capable of rendering a 512-cubed array of volume data in real time at up to 30 frames per second on a standard PC. The application allows stereo and perspective views, and animations of time-sequences. We show several examples of three-dimensional heliospheric volume data derived from tomographic reconstructions based on heliospheric remote sensing observations of the heliospheric density and velocity structure (e.g. Thomson scattering and interplanetary scintillation observations). This work was supported through NASA grant NAG5-9423 and Air Force MURI grant F49620-01-0359.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002AGUFMSH21A0511B
- Keywords:
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- 2102 Corotating streams;
- 2111 Ejecta;
- driver gases;
- and magnetic clouds;
- 2134 Interplanetary magnetic fields;
- 2194 Instruments and techniques;
- 7594 Instruments and techniques