Ecosystem services are benefits provided to humans by ecosystems through the natural processes and conditions which occur. Interviews with land use scientists identified problems with currently available software applied to their ecosystem services analysis. A user centred design process is adopted and a visualization system, Immersive ESS Visualizer, is presented for visualizing data relating to ecosystem services analysis. Immersive ESS Visualizer is designed for both experts and non-experts and allows users to compare data visualized with multiple hand-manipulated maps. Users can glide over a landscape with data layers draped to analyse areas of interest. Immersive ESS Visualizer could augment a process for presenting ecosystem services analysis results.
Benjamin Powley, Craig Anslow, Mairead de Roiste, and Stuart Marshall. Immersive Visualization for Ecosystem Services Analysis. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), Christchurch, New Zealand, 2023.
