Visualization Technology and Its Application for Massive Astronomical Data Analyses

With the rapid development of modern astronomical observational technology, the processing and analyzing of massive astronomical data bring us an unprecedented challenge. As an effective approach, Visualization Technology (VT) is becoming a hotspot for analyzing massive data. In this paper, in the lights of previous lieratures of visualization technology, we further discuss the possibilities of using VT in astronomical data processing. We compare the advantages and disadvantages of each visualization technique and finally think that visualization technology with VisIVO has a great deal of flexibility and good expansibility for analyzing astronomical data.