The advancement of computational resources and informational gathering resource together are resulting in the collection and storage of unparalleled amounts of information and data.
Some satellites collect over a terabyte worth of data each day.
Worse yet, we are increasing the data collection rate continuously. Analyzing and understanding this data is becoming a significant burden. Examining the textual form of the data is practically useless. The use of basic graphics techniques are helpfull but too limitting given the quantity of data. Through visualization we attempt to provide techniques for representing large amounts of data in a graphical form such that it is easier to interpret and understand by the user.