Bruce introduced the students to the Collaborative Ocean Visualization Environment (COVE) he and other members of the Center for Environmental Visualization oversaw creation of during 2004-2007.



COVE was developed to help an artistically trained professional create useful maps, videos, and other content from geospatial and geotemporal data.

COVE describes visualizations via a COVE Markup Language (COVEML). An example is the map of alaska CML file which controls the visualization seen here:



Bruce demonstrated how to use the interactive tools to make changes to the visualization, as well as how to navigate a visualization that is active in the COVE software. Students followed along to load contents of a geospatial archive into COVE and play with the settings used in making the map above:



Students then played with two other archives to create maps of interest based on their artistic training (including the review of concepts from earlier weeks in this course):

Students used the Narragansett Bay ASCII grid file with in a COVE NarrBay.cml markup file to create a map like:



And students played with a CML file that was used to create videos of currents properties off the Oregon coast from which this screen shot was taken: