MoVE

The model visual explorer (MoVE) is a next generation interactive visualisation web app that aims to tackle some of the largest datasets with unstructured grid meshes.

Responsive and interactive visualisation of large geospatial datasets has always been a challenge. With more and more models outputting their data in irregular or unstructured grid formats, some tools have started to fall behind.

One of the largest hurdles for tools, is large scale 4D model result datasets that use an unstructured grid. These datasets have file sizes exceeding 100GB with more than 1.4 million polygons, which presents major challenges when trying to load, manipulate and render the data for interactive visualisation.

With open-source libraries and industry standard tooling, MoVE achieves responsive interactivity with large scale models using just a laptop. No HPC nodes required.

National Scale Datasets

1k resolution model render of Australian coastal temperature

1km Resolution Unstructured Grid Mesh

Ocean Height – 1km CoCOMA Model Output – Sydney Harbour

MoVE in Action