UCGVision: Underground Coal Gasification Process Data Visualization Aspects

This work presents the UCGVision system designed for underground coal gasification process visualization, prediction, and monitoring. The possibility to visualize the ongoing reactions during the process is crucial for better insight into the process itself. Moreover, the system task is to give researchers and in the future process supervisor a tool to observe the current state of the process by a wide range of provided functionalities. This paper addresses problems regarding data presentation with utilization of computer graphics. Several issues concerning clear data presentation is discussed. The system performance is evaluated mostly on the modelled data, but it also enables the cooperation with a real time process observations. Keywords—computer graphics, visualization, point cloud, process data, underground coal gasification