Maarten de Hoop
Director, GMIG
mdehoop@purdue.edu
Dept of Mathematics
Purdue University
150 N Univ St
West Lafayette, IN 47907
ph. (765) 496-7678
Fax (765) 496-1169
Visual Analysis of Geo-imaging Data
In the category "Visual Analysis of Geo-imaging Data", we address
the challenges associated with turning very large amounts of data into
actual discoveries and technical progress. Visualization, or the
computer-generated visual depiction of data, has a critical role to
play in this context by offering an intuitive interface to massive
data sets that forms a basis for exploration, interpretation, and
(iterative) inversion.
Our research program specializes in high-performance geometric
processing and interactive visual data analysis techniques, and uses
mathematical models rooted in topology, dynamical systems,
differential geometry, and approximation theory, to identify salient
structures present in large-scale and/or high-dimensional problems
that then form the backbone of effective visual representations. The
goal is to create new models of saliency that naturally integrate the
mathematical advances in the analysis of (seismic and diffuse
electromagnetic) inverse problems and turn them into scalable
computational algorithms that will empower the geo-imaging community
in its data analysis efforts.