A Tool for Visualising Large Oceanographic, Atmospheric and GIS Datasets

This paper describes the development and main operational capabilities of Makai Voyager, a geospatially enabled software that can fuse and visualise large, multi-variable data sets that change in space (x,y,z) and time (t) for weather phenomena such as precipitation patterns and typhoons. The new software has the ability to simultaneously visualise imagery, bathymetry/terrain, and true volumetric (voxel) data in a fully interactive geo-referenced mode. In addition to providing global coverage, a key feature of this software is the capability to interactively visualise large data sets while operating on a desktop PC.