Visual data analysis as an integral part of environmental management

Joerg Meyer; E. Wes Bethel; Jennifer L. Horsman; Susan S. Hubbard; Harinarayan Krishnan; Alexandru Romosan; Elizabeth H. Keating; Laura Monroe; Richard Strelitz; Phil Moore; Glenn Taylor; Ben Torkian; Timothy C. Johnson; Ian Gorton

doi:10.1109/TVCG.2012.278

Visual data analysis as an integral part of environmental management

Joerg Meyer, E. Wes Bethel, Jennifer L. Horsman, Susan S. Hubbard, Harinarayan Krishnan, Alexandru Romosan, Elizabeth H. Keating, Laura Monroe, Richard Strelitz, Phil Moore, Glenn Taylor, Ben Torkian, Timothy C. Johnson, Ian Gorton

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Abstract

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (DOE/EM) currently supports an effort to understand and predict the fate of nuclear contaminants and their transport in natural and engineered systems. Geologists, hydrologists, physicists and computer scientists are working together to create models of existing nuclear waste sites, to simulate their behavior and to extrapolate it into the future. We use visualization as an integral part in each step of this process. In the first step, visualization is used to verify model setup and to estimate critical parameters. High-performance computing simulations of contaminant transport produces massive amounts of data, which is then analyzed using visualization software specifically designed for parallel processing of large amounts of structured and unstructured data. Finally, simulation results are validated by comparing simulation results to measured current and historical field data. We describe in this article how visual analysis is used as an integral part of the decision-making process in the planning of ongoing and future treatment options for the contaminated nuclear waste sites. Lessons learned from visually analyzing our large-scale simulation runs will also have an impact on deciding on treatment measures for other contaminated sites.

Original language	English
Article number	6327213
Pages (from-to)	2088-2094
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Volume	18
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2012.278
State	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes

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The authors would like to thank Mark Freshley, Michael Truex (PNNL), Laura Monroe, Paul Weber (LANL), Gregory Flach, Deno Karapatakis (SRNL), Deb Agarwal, Boris A. Faybishenko, John Peterson, and Arie Shoshani (LBNL). This work was supported by the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, Office of Environmental Management, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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Visual analytics
data management
environmental management
high-performance computing
parallel rendering

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Meyer, J., Bethel, E. W., Horsman, J. L., Hubbard, S. S., Krishnan, H., Romosan, A., Keating, E. H., Monroe, L., Strelitz, R., Moore, P., Taylor, G., Torkian, B., Johnson, T. C., & Gorton, I. (2012). Visual data analysis as an integral part of environmental management. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(12), 2088-2094. Article 6327213. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2012.278

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