Title:Digital Geology - Moving towards Geological Field Trips 2_0
Duration: 2:09 minutes
Description:
Henk Jaap Kloosterman demonstrates how fully immersive geological fieldtrips are possible in the office environment through the use of digital geology.
Digital Geology - Moving towards Geological Field Trips 2_0 Transcript
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Against a white background, a matryoshka doll or Russian nesting doll displays towards frame-right. The wooden figure separates, top from bottom, to reveal a smaller figure of the same sort inside, which has, in turn, another figure inside of it, and this continues until there are five dolls of decreasing size displayed alongside one another in a diagonal rowagainst the white background, with text displaying in upper frame-left.
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Digital Geology Moving towards Geological Fieldtrips 2.0
Interview with Henk Jaap Kloosterman
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Global Learning Manager Subsurface
[Henk Jaap Kloosterman]
With digital geology, we brought the geological fieldtrip into the office environment.
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Wide and slowly panning panoramic footage of a rock face seen against a blue sky. A group of people wearing safety hats are visible at the base of the rock outcropping.
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Henk Jaap Kloosterman / Global Learning Manager Subsurface
[Henk Jaap Kloosterman]
Let me share with you the next steps of this innovative journey.I’m standing here in the iScope Virtual Reality Centre in the Netherlands. And behind me, you see the escudeiros [?] outcrop in the Southern Pyrenees, one of the stops of our present-day geological fieldtrips.
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Mid-view footage of Henk Jaap Kloosterman at frame-right and speaking into the camera, and standing against the backdrop a panoramic photograph of a rock outcrop in the Southern Pyrenees, an expanse of green and brown landscape and cloudy blue skies visible in the background.
[Henk Jaap Kloosterman]
The picture is a 360° by 180° high resolution panoramic photograph that we recently took during one of our reconnaissance trips. Standing here in Rijswijk, I can now navigate you through the geology, zoom in and explain relevant geological detail to you, as I would do when I would be physically in the field. I can do this in a collaborative environment where people at different locations can connect to me at the same time. The 360° by 180° panoramic picture is georeferenced and can be combined with, for example, satellite imagery, Google Earth maps, geoscience…
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Mid-view footage of Henk Jaap Kloosterman at frame-right and speaking into the camera, and standing against the backdrop of the panoramic photograph of the rock outcrop. The background image pans over the rock outcropping, zooming to a closer view of the rock formation, before moving over more of the topography, while the speaker continues to address the camera from his position at frame-right.
[Henk Jaap Kloosterman]
…topographical, multimedia and other sources of data. It will be presented as a low-cost and intuitive web-based solution, accessible to everyone, at any place, any time, and linked to our knowledge management setup. In 2017, we intend to collect these high resolution panoramic pictures for all the stops of the geological fieldtrips that we run in the Subsurface faculty. We will translate these into virtual outcrop stops that we will integrate into our digital geology project.
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At extreme frame-left, a small section of screen shows satellite imagery of terrain. The previously described panoramic photograph of the rock outcrop and surrounding landscape fills the rest of the frame. The footage at frame-right, pans over the rock surfaces, while at one point a virtual compass dial appears at the bottom of the frame. A tiny white pinpoint moves about the frame as the operator navigates over the imagery.
[Henk Jaap Kloosterman]
Ultimately, we want to make our virtual outcrop stops a fully immersive experience. The best has yet to come. Enjoy the future.
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Mid-view footage of Henk Jaap Kloosterman, again at frame-right and speaking into the camera, and standing against the backdrop the panoramic photograph of the rock outcrop, as before. He then lifts a virtual reality headset, and places it over his head.
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Mid-view footage of Henk Jaap Kloosterman at frame-right, the VR headset now over his eyes. Filling the background behind him, we see twin images – as though through a pair of lenses – of the panoramic photograph of the rock outcrop and surrounding landscape. The imagery moves as Henk moves his head, looking in all directions. The image of Henk dissolves from the frame, leaving only the twin landscape images, before they finally dissolve to a white background.
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