Periscope: A Framework for Visualizations of Multiresolution Spatiotemporal Data at Scale

The crux of this study is to support browser-based visualizations of spatiotemporally evolving phenomena. Such phenomena arise in myriad domains spanning terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric processes. The data are voluminous, have diverse representational formats and projection systems, and are multivariate. We rely on a novel mix of tiling, caching, compression, perceptual limits, speculative prefetching, and dynamic generation of tiles. Our refinements at the client and server-side work in concert with each other to leverage client-side resources, minimize duplicate processing, and effective prefetching to ensure interactive explorations at scale. Our benchmarks profiled several aspects of our methodology and demonstrate the suitability of our refinements.