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Environmental Visualization Program (EVP):Environmental Visualization Program (EVP):Summary of CapabilitiesSummary of Capabilities
NOAA/NESDIS/ORANOAA/NESDIS/ORA
Dan PisutDan Pisut
EVP Manager (IMSG)EVP Manager (IMSG)
[email protected]@noaa.gov
301.713.0933301.713.0933
EVP BackgroundEVP Background
Started in 1999, the EVP has produced high quality visualizations for a variety of clients including:
NOAA and NESDIS Headquarters
Media outlets (television, print, internet)
Publications (magazines, books, reports)
Educational and commercial requestors
Graphic Design Page layout Image design and manipulation
Satellite Visualizations Geo-referenced imagery 3-D rendering Enhanced time series animations
Video and Sound Production
EVP Capabilities
The EVP graphic designers have produced professional and visually stimulating layouts for NOAA and NESDIS annual reports, budgets, and other releases.
EVP Products – Graphic Design
EVP: The media’s source for hurricane imagery
Program Goals
• Develop a strategic Media Plan
• Increased variety of products
• Bi-weekly media release of NOAA material
• Improve the EVP website
• Promoting environmental literacy
• More complex visualization methods
• Develop client-base with exhibitors
Diversifying our products
• More informative hurricane
animations
• Remote sensing
• Global and regional scales
• Layers of information
The EVP is one of two major production studios for the Ocean Hall for still images, animations, and the Science on a Sphere exhibit
EVP Products – Smithsonian Ocean Hall
• Increased use of NOAA research
• Enhance visual appeal and understanding for media use
• Animated time-series
Incorporating ORA Research
• Satellite resolution vs. image resolution…they’re not the same!
• NOAA needs greater exposure, but also high quality exposure.
• We need to being considering outreach when developing and outputting models.
Increasing NOAA’s exposure to the public
Image from Coral Watch website
Satellite technologyconstrains on scale
EVP enhanced global imagery
Air Date: 4/16/2006
Enhanced Version
• Contours instead of pixels
• Smoothing between boundaries
• Cooperation
• Communication
• Conceptualization
• Proper Imagery– Highest resolution possible
(dimensions and dpi)
– “Clean images”
– Correct file types (geo-tif, png, jpg, bmp)
• Updates
What we need from you…
Aired 5/16/2006
Accumulated rainfall animation: May floods in New EnglandNESDIS/ORA research product
• Monday 9 am: contact Bob Kuligowski Bob Kuligowski
• Bob modifies images to suit our needs
• GrADS ‘gxout’ output ‘shaded’ instead of ‘grfill’
• Command: ‘gxpng’ increases spatial res.
• Map background, color scale, annotation removed
• FTP and/or WinZip files for delivery
• EVP process images by 5pm
– Resize hi-res map to fit data map
– Overlay images in Adobe AfterEffects
– Adjust frame-rate, zooms, codecs, etc.
• Tuesday 10-11 am: process image updates
– Two hours to update previous animation
• Release to Public Affairs, airs at 6pm
Case Study: New England floods
3400 x 4400 pixels
• Novel hurricane animations
• African drought time-series
• 3D models of satellite orbits
• Continued HAB updates
• Aerosol and ozone animations
• Polar imagery
Current Projects
Horn of Africa drought
New hurricane forecast model
Satellite animations
La Niña
Questions?
Colorized IR imagery of Hurricane Katrina that has been distributed to the National Hurricane Center, PBS, and NBC
