Title: Exploring geovisualization /
Authors: Dykes, J.
Publisher: Elsevier,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Digital mapping.; Geographic information systems; Cartography Automation; Cartographie par ordinateur.; Systèmes d'information géographique.; Cartographie Automatisation.; Visualisation.; Geowissenschaften.; Visualisierung.; Cartography Automation; Digital mapping; Geographic information systems
Abstract: Drawing on perspectives from information science, computer science, cartography and other fields, the contributors to this volume discuss the emerging field of geovisualization, touching on such topics as software approaches to geovisualization perspectives and design and evaluation issues.
Contents: Web-based dissemination and visualization of operational 3D mesoscale weather models / Lloyd A. Treinish -- Connecting people, data and resources : distributed geovisualization / Ken Brodlie [and others] -- Moving geovisualization toward support for group work / Alan M. MacEachren -- Models of collaborative visualization / Ken Brodlie -- Intelligent information integration : from infrastructure through consistency management to information visualization / Michael Schroeder -- A knowledge-based collaborative environment for geovisualization : ontologies for multiple perspectives on distributed data resources / Zarine Kemp -- Geovisualization issues in public transport applications / David Fairbairn -- Presenting route instructions on mobile devices : from textual directions to 3D visualization / Volker Coors [and others] -- Making useful and useable geovisualization : design and evaluation issues / Sven Fuhrmann [and others] -- 3D geovisualization and the structure of visual space / Colin Ware & Matthew Plumlee -- Applications of a cognitively informed framework for the design of interactive spatio-temporal representations / Robert M. Edsall & Laura R. Sidney -- User-centered design of collaborative geovisualization tools / Sven Fuhrmann & William Pike -- Towards multi-variate visualization of metadata describing geographic information / Paula Ahonen-Rainio & Menno-Jan Kraak -- Evaluating self-organizing maps for geovisualization / Etien L. Koua & Menno-Jan Kraak -- Evaluating geographic visualization tools and methods : an approach and experiment based upon user tasks / Carolina Tobón -- Cognitively plausible information visualization / Sara Irina Fabrikant & André Skupin -- Advancing geovisualization / Jason Dykes, Alan M. MacEachren & Menno-Jan Kraak.