The Visualisation Center TESSIN VISLab (Vislab) allows scientists with different backgrounds to explore and analyse complex and heterogeneous spatial data sets. An interactive stereoscopic video wall is used to dive right into the displayed environmental data sets, supporting visitors in understanding scientific questions and challenges. The VisLab fosters knowledge transfer in the scientific community as well as among the general public.

Projects

We work on a variety of visualisation and data integration projects in different fields of application:

Hydrosystems

Studies focussing on hydrological or hydrogeological process such as groundwater flow and -managment, groundwater/surface water interaction, lakes, and coastal systems.


Urban Systems

Studies related to the resource management in urban areas, including energy infrastructures, energy storage, or sewage systems.


Energy & Geotechnics

Geotechnical studies with a wide range of applications in energy storage, waste management as well as deep and shallow geothermal systems.


Climate & Eco Systems

Applications focussing of weather, climate and biodiversity simulations, including the visualisation of extreme weather events, forest growth, or urban micro climates.



Data Integration

Adjusting heterogeneous data sets to fit into a unified geographic context, is an essential step for subsequent tasks such as setting up numerical models or preparing scientific visualisation studies.

See our workflows for data integration

The Team

The Data Integration and Visualisation Group is led by Karsten Rink and consists of members with different research interests that complement each other when working on complex data processing and visualisation projects.


Dr. Karsten Rink

Lars Bilke

Özgür Ozan Şen

Nico Graebling





Julian Heinze

Susann Goldstein

Markus Jahn




Get to know the team

The Way We Work

Our projects are from a wide range of applications. Therefore, we are working in close collaboration with domain scientists providing data to get an idea of their research and to discuss their aims. With this information in mind, the multidisciplinary team of domain scientists and visualisation experts create the visualisation. In this way, we assure that the result of our work is useful for researchers to gain further insight into their data or to communicate their work to stakeholders or the public.


Publications

[2023] Backhaus et al.
Modellbasiertes Management von Wasserextremen in urbanen Regionen
in Wasserwirtschaft, Wassertechnik wwt

[2023] Bucher et al.
EASyQuart - Energieeffiziente Auslegung und Planung dezentraler Versorgungsnetze von Stadtquartieren. Heizen und Kühlen unter Nutzung oberflächennaher geologischer Ressourcen

[2023] Şen et al.
A visual-scenario-based environmental analysis approach to the model-based management of water extremes in urban regions
in Proceedings of Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis) (2023)

[2023] Kolditz et al.
Digitalisation for nuclear waste management: predisposal and disposal
in Environmental Earth Sciences

[2023] Rink et al.
Hydro-mechanical Effects and cracking in opalinus clay
in SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences

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Recent

Climate and Ecosystems

Here is a selection of our visualisation studies for climate- and ecosystem-related applications: Multifaceted Meteorological Data Visualisation of multifaceted meteorological data (wind magnitude/direction, cloud mass fractions, temperature, heat flux, etc.) integrated into geographical context (e.g. topography) and time-series data acquired from observation sites. The application supports multiple presentation devices, a user-friendly interface, and allows for cooperative work between researchers of various scientific domains. Videos MEVA Demo Publications C Helbig, L Bilke, H-S Bauer, et al.
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Energy Systems & Geotechnics

This is a selection of our visualisation studies for hydrosystems: Underground Research Laboratories ‹ › Underground research laboratories such as in Mont Terri are essential for intensive in-situ research on the storage of radioactive waste, to better understand processes and phenomena related to the usage of subsurface repositories. We have developed a prototype for an experimental information system for the Mont Terri URL, integrating geological information with CAD data, observation results, and numerical simulation results predicting the development of planned or ongoing experiments.
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Hydrosystem Projects

This is a selection of our visualisation studies for hydrosystems: WetUrban - Model-based management of water extremes ‹ › Based on a prototype for the city of Dresden, Germany, a methodology was developed to use digital city models as a basis for a visualisation- and interaction framework for multiple coupled hydrological and hydrodynamical process models. Specifically, we coupled a surface run-off model simulating flooding (using BASEMENT), a simulation of the sewage network (using SWMM) and a groundwater simulation (using OpenGeoSys) via open python-based interfaces.
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