Visualization of 3D Hydrogeological Data in the Web. GI_Forum 2014 – Geospatial Innovation for Society|

New Zealand's groundwater resources are inadequately understood to effectively support an integrated and sustainable freshwater management. To appropriately characterise the groundwater aquifers, a lot of environmental data are required; among them (hydro- )geological datasets. Usually, proprietary software products are used to establish, visualise and analyse the geological underground. This prevents a broad and public distribution of information to those who need it. In this manuscript we demonstrate a framework to enable a web-based (platform independent) retrieval and visualisation of three-dimensional information via the web browser. We link distributed data and processing services to prepare an on-demand 3D visualisation of geological and hydrological data