Visual exploration of high-dimensional spatial data: requirements and deficits ?
Suitable tools are needed to explore high-dimensional data spaces and to gain insight into the underlying geoprocesses. Especially interactive, computer-generated representations enrich our perception, so that complex phenomena can be comprehended intuitively. Although several helpful visualization techniques are available today, there is a growing demand for more advanced tools and strategies. The latter must ensure that techniques appropriate for the nature of data and suitable for the objectives are applied throughout the whole data exploration process. This paper outlines the deficits of existing software and requirements for future visualization environments, focusing on the exploration branch in geoscientific visualization.
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