Visualization on The Globe
Important note: we use only cross-platform Open Source Software and Open Datasets for our publications. You can freely download all the used software and data. These are our commonly used datasets in the same order as on the picture above: EMAG2 Earth Magnetic Anomaly Grid , Sandwell and Smith Free Air Gravity Grid , GEBCO Gridded Bathymetry Data , World Stress Map (vector fields ). That’s very helpful to produce a high-quality visualization for each of them to present our projects results. ParaView is the right tool to do it and we need to prepare the source data. Prepare datasets 1.1. Prepare georasters The original data grids are too large and that’s better to reduce the sizes. Also, only NetCDF files can be easy processed in ParaView by this way and so we convert the datasets to this format too. GDAL tool is suitable for the conversion: gdal_translate -of NetCDF -r average -tr .25 0.25 EMAG2_V2.tif EMAG2_V2.15min.nc gdal_translate -of NetCDF