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

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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]

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]

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.)