MOSIS — Multi-outcrop sharing & interpretation system

The use of LiDAR and multiples digital images jointly with 3-D reconstruction techniques for creating 3-D models of natural outcrops and surfaces studies have increased dramatically in the last few years. These techniques have provided an enormous amount of data for interpretation by geoscientists. However, these researchers have no available software capable of offering a user experience comparable to the fieldwork. The majority of solutions have considered desktop systems, which presents inherent limitations due to the 2-D characteristics of displays and loss of immersion into the 3-D model, or up until expensive and complex stereoscopic based approaches to improve the 3-D user experience do not offer well suitable solutions. To address these limitations, this paper presents a low-cost completely disruptive solution for processing, visualizing, sharing and directly handling Digital Outcrop Models with the support of a full interpretation toolset, the MOSIS System. The proposed system provides a fully immersive computational environment, capable of teleporting virtually geoscientists to the fieldwork, giving an awareness of being there physically with an extensible toolset for the DOM's interpretation. Besides, desktop, web and mobile versions of MOSIS have been under development and fulfill the lack of tools for digital outcrop modeling.