Plotting Latitude, Longitude, and Depth in a 3D plot

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Capstone project for CCDSP fellowship, where we will store data and code

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Plotting Latitude, Longitude, and Depth in a 3D plot #3

Open PK0207 opened 2 years ago

PK0207 commented 2 years ago

Goal:

Create a 3D surface plot of the data provided (ocean samples) by using the latitude, longitude, and depth parameters in the bottle_and_cast.csv.

Proposed plan:

Use plotly (python) and leaflet and shinty (R) to produce this ploe
First take the unique values of Lat_Dec and Lon_Dec to determine the bounds of the plot
Then find the Depthm array of values associated with each lat,long pair

PK0207 commented 2 years ago

From a preliminary exploration in python using plotly, this is what I came up with:
There seem to be some problems because depths sampling is not continuous:

PK0207 commented 2 years ago

Plotly also has an example of layers of a 3D solid object shown, kind of like the cross sections we talked about. This could then become a stack of 2D graphs to make the data more interpretable.

What makes this possible is the discrete depth sampling of the bottle data.
What this requires (ideally) is for there to be depth data across all locations for almost every depth (I think it is possible without this though.)