Data integration and visualization: Dealing with massive and multi-dimensional marine spatial data

Marine observation has entered the era of three-dimensional observation at the present time. More and more spatial data is got form marine observing with no sophisticated visualization and analysis software for marine spatial data (MSD) either. Based on the analysis of data types and the acquisition methods in MSD, the paper proposed a data model for massive and multi-dimensional MSD. Then the procedure and implementation of MSD visualization is designed with the model. In addition, two applications for massive and multi-dimensional data visualization are presented.