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{{< single-page-intro text="The Visualization Center TESSIN VISLab (Vislab) allows scientists with different backgrounds to explore and analyse complex and heterogeneous spatial data sets. An interactive stereoscopic video wall is used to dive right into the displayed environmental data sets, supporting visitors in understanding scientific questions and challenges. The Vislab fosters knowledge transfer in the scientific community as well as among the general public." >}}


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We work on a variety of visualisation and data integration projects in different fields of application:

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	title="Climate & Eco Systems"
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Adjusting heterogeneous data sets to fit into a unified geographic context, is an essential step for subsequent tasks such as setting up numerical models or preparing scientific visualisation studies.

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The Visualisation and Data Integration Group is led by Karsten Rink and consists of members wtih different research interests that complement each other when working on complex data processing and visualisation projects.

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Our projects are from a wide range of applications. Therefore, we we are working in close collaboration with domain scientists providing data to get an idea of their research and to discuss their aims. With these information in mind, the multidisciplinary team of domain scientists and visualisation experts create the visualisation. In this way, we assure that the result of our work is useful for researchers to gain further insight into their data or to communicate their work to stakeholders or the public.

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