TaggerVR: Interactive Data Analytics for Geoscience - A Novel Interface for Interactive Visual Analytics of Large Geoscientific Datasets in Cloud Repositories

TaggerVR´ is a work-in-progress immersive VR implementation of the ´Tagger´ interactive software tool designed to visualize, characterize, sample and tag geoscientific datasets hosted in local and cloud-based repositories via a THREDDS Data Server and OPeNDAP. TaggerVR implements a VR GUI using Human Interface Devices (HID), providing data to the user via an animated interface. This enables interesting features that would otherwise be lost in large datasets to be ´Tagged´ for subsequent analysis. A key novel enabler is the link between scientific data formats and the high-performance interactive graphics.