Projects - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

Vislab – Current projects

Urban Systems

Urban Infrastructures

Urban water systems

Chaohu Lake Visualisation Data and model integration for urban water systems including water supply and waste water management; streams, channels, lake, groundwater models; access to online monitoring systems …

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Urban Catchments

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjVold9M6yM

Publications:

Sachse et al.: Chinese water systems. Volume 2: Managing water resources for urban catchments: Chaohu

Rink et al.: Virtual geographic environments for water pollution control

Geothermal Energy Systems

Urban heating & cooling

Taucha Geothermal Energy Vis Planning of ground source heat pump systems for heating and cooling supply of a new residential district in the North of Leipzig. Visualization of subsurface structures by geophysical exploration, groundwater level, borehole heat exchangers …

Project link:	SAGS, ANGUS+
Publications:	Vienken et al.: Sustainable Intensive Thermal Use of the Shallow Subsurface -- A Critical View on the Status Quo

Urban Climate

Urban climate visualisation The influence of building construction on urban microclimate impact is simulated and depicted in the actual building plan; wind directions influence temperatures at different elevation …

Publications:

Koch et al.: Compact or cool? The impact of brownfield redevelopment on inner-city micro climate

Waste Water Treatment

Waste water treatment visualisation Options for decentralized waste water systems are displayed in the real geographical context, integrated GIS tools for cost evaluation based in high-resolved digital elevation models …

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Urban Catchments, SMART-MOVE

Hydrosystems

Watershed Management

Poyang Lake

Poyang Lake Visualisation

Project link:	DFG#NSFC Cooperation Group
Video:	Coming soon
Publications:	Yan, C., Rink, K. et al.: Virtual geographical environment-based environmental information system for Poyang Lake Basin

Coastal Water Management

Coastal water management visualisation Salt water intrusion due to overexploitation in coastal areas is deteriorating groundwater resources; urban areas are heavily affected; visualization of subsurface flows systems helps for designing protection measures …

Project link:	IWAS-Oman
Video:	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xBQJ9WWPJY
Publications:	Walther, M., Bilke, L. et al.: Assessing the saltwater remediation potential of a three-dimensional, heterogeneous, coastal aquifer system

Geoenergy Systems

Radioactive Waste Management

Radioactive waste management Underground Research Laboratories such as in Mont Terri are places of intensive in-situ investigation for best options of waste repositories. Virtual URLs are under development as data and model repositories …

Project link:	iCROSS, EURAD, URL Mont Terri
Video:	coming soon..

Salt caverns as energy stores

Salt cavern vis Large underground stores are required for fluctuating renewable energy resources; more frequent loading and unloading of salt cavern arrays is investigated from a geomechanical point of view …

Project link:	ANGUS+, H2-UGS
Video:	coming soon..
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Carbon Capture Storage

CCS vis Geophysical exploration (e.g. seismics) provides a better picture of subsurface systems and allow for better planning of geological CO2 storage repositories …

Project link:	PROTECT, CO2BENCH
Publications:	Krawczyk, C.M., Tanner, D.C. et al.: Seismic and sub-seismic deformation prediction in the context of geological carbon trapping and storage

Climate & Ecosystems

Urban Climate

Tree Vis

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Formind

Completed projects

Recent publications

Rink, K., Şen, Ö. O., Schwanebeck, M., Hartmann, T., Gasanzade, F., Nordbeck, J., Bauer, S., Kolditz, O. (2022): An Environmental Information System for the Exploration of Energy Systems. Geotherm. Energ. 10 (art. 4)
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Rink, K., Şen, Ö. O., Hannemann, M., Ködel, U., Nixdorf, E., Weber, U., Werban, U., Schrön, M., Kalbacher, T, Kolditz, O. (2022): An Environmental Exploration System for Visual Scenario Analysis of Regional Hydro-Meteorological Systems. Comput. Graph. 103, 192-200
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Ziefle, G., Cajuhi, T., Graebling, N., Jaeggi, D., Kolditz, O., Kunz, H., Maßmann, J., Rink, K. (2022):
Multi-disciplinary investigation of the hydraulic-mechanically driven convergence behavior: CD-A twin niches in the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory during the first year. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment
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Rink, K., Şen, Ö. O., Hannemann, M., Ködel, U., Nixdorf, E., Weber, U., Werban, U., Schrön, M., Kalbacher, T, Kolditz, O. (2022): A Virtual Geographic Environment for the Exploration of Hydro-Meteorological Extremes.
In Proc of EuroVis Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences
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Raith, F., Blecha, C., Rink, K., Wang, W., Kolditz, O., Shao, H., Scheuermann, G. (2020): Visual Analysis of a Full-Scale-Emplacement Experiment in the Underground Rock Laboratory Mont Terri using Fiber Surfaces. Proc. of EuroVis Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences
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Rink, K., Nixdorf, E., Zhou, C., Hillmann, M., Bilke, L., (2020): A virtual geographic environment for multi-compartment water and solute dynamics in large catchments. J. Hydrol. 582 , art. 124507
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Yan, C., Rink, K., Bilke, L., Zhao, G., Yue, T., Kolditz, O., (2020): A three-dimensional software framework for environmental system monitoring and decision support in Poyang lake basin. Earth Sci. Inform. 13 (3), 901-913
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Yan, C., Rink, K. et al. (2019): Virtual geographical environment-based environmental information system for Poyang Lake Basin, Chinese water systems. Volume 3: Poyang Lake Basin
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Kolditz, O., Rink, K. et al. (2019): Environmental information systems: Paving the path for digitally facilitated water management (Water 4.0), Engineering 5(5), 828-832
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Koch F., Bilke L. et al (2018): Compact or cool? The impact of brownfield redevelopment on inner-city micro climate, Sust. Cities Soc. 38, 31-41
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Rink, Karsten et. al. (2018): Virtual geographic environments for water pollution control
Int. J. Digit. Earth 11(4), 397-407
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Rink, Karsten et al. (2017):
Setting up Virtual Geographic Environments in Unity
Proc. of EuroVis Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences
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Helbig, Carolin et al. (2017):
Challenges and strategies for the visual exploration of complex environmental data
Int. J. Dig. Earth 10(10), 1070-1076
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Helbig, Carolin et al. (2015):
MEVA - An interactive visualization application for validation of multifaceted meteorological data with multiple 3D devices
PLOS One 10 (4), e0123811
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Bilke, Lars et al., (2014):
TESSIN VISLab—laboratory for scientific visualization
Environ. Earth Sci. 72 (10), 3881 - 3899
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