With support of the USGS and the University of Illinois-Chicago’s (UIC) Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL),security planning for president-elect Obama’s inauguration included technology called OptIPortal,a multi-screen,tiled wall of LCD monitors (Image at right:John R. Evans,USGS information technology specialist,briefs outgoing Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne (center) and Secretary-designee Ken Salazar (right). See more information about OptIPortals.
See the UIC press release as well as more graphics of the OptiPortal display at the SAGE/EVL gallery. (graphics used with permission of UIC)