Modern Geodata Management: Application of Interdisciplinary Interpretation and Visualization in Central America

Figure 6

Perspective view onto the research area in Central America with some emphasis on the seafloor bathymetry and the trench. Looking along the trench offshore Central America in northwestern direction, in addition to the high-resolution SRTM3 topography dataset [28], we use also a lower-resolution ETOPO2v2 topography grid [39]. It surrounds the research area located inside the red bounding box covering Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and the complex oceanic floor with the incoming Cocos Ridge from southwest. The area is built by the northern portion of the Nazca plate in the south, the Cocos plate in the west, and the Caribbean plate in the east using an exaggeration of 1 : 8.