Space Science and Engineering Center
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The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) is a research and development center with primary focus on geophysical research and technology to enhance understanding of the atmosphere of Earth, the other planets in our Solar System, and the cosmos. SSEC is part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Graduate School.
Major SSEC Initiatives
- Atmospheric studies of Earth and other planets
- Interactive computing, data access, and image processing
- Spaceflight hardware development and fabrication
See also
- Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite StudiesCIMSSThe Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies is a research institute where scientists research the use of data from geostationary and polar orbit weather satellites to improve forecasts of weather The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) is a...
- McIDASMcIDASMcIDAS, the "Man computer Interactive Data Access System", is a pioneering weather forecasting tool developed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1970s and used continually to this day. In its early incarnations it was widely used to generate graphics for television stations, but today is...
- Vis5DVis5DVis5D is a 3-D visualization system used primarily for animated 3-D visualization of weather simulations. It was the first system to produce fully interactive animated 3-D displays of time-dynamic volumetric data sets and the first open source 3-D visualization system.-Design:Vis5D was created in...
- Cave5DCave5DCave5D is an adaptation of Vis5D to the CAVE for immersive virtual reality.-Bibliography:* W. Hibbard, J. Anderson, I. Foster, B. Paul, R. Jacob, C. Schafer, and M. Tyree, Exploring Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Models Using Vis5D, Int. J. of Supercomputer Applications 10, no. 2, 1996,...
- VisADVisADVisAD is a Java component library for interactive and collaborative visualization and analysis of numerical data. It combines a flexible data model and distributed objects to support sharing of data, visualizations and user interfaces between different data sources, different computers and...
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