The GeoResources Institute is striving to advance the technology and utilization of scientific visualization, information visualization, visual analysis, and image processing for the computational sciences.

GRI realizes the concept that a fundamental goal of visualization is to enable and enhance human comprehension of complex phenomena. Although the field of computational engineering is capable of solving many real-world problems, visualizing these computed datasets for optimal human understanding remains a challenge. To seek better solutions to this problem, GRI employs a cross-disciplinary group of scientists and engineers which includes electrical engineers, computer engineers, computer scientists, and computational engineers. This cross-disciplinary group houses expertise in visualization algorithms and systems, virtual environments, level-of-detail representations, hierarchical data structures, progressive coding/rendering, wavelet coding/analysis/rendering and optimizing human learning and performance.

Application areas of expertise and interest include the geosciences, computational chemistry and biology, fluid dynamics and bioinformatics.

Image Galleries:
     Interactive Structured Time-varying Visualizer (ISTV) images / animations