COMPARATIVE VISUALIZATION OF GEOSPATIAL-TEMPORAL DATA

Stefan Jänicke, Christian Heine, Ralf Stockmann, Gerik Scheuermann

2012

Abstract

The amount of online data annotated with geospatial and temporal metadata has grown rapidly in the recent years. Social networks like Flickr and Twitter are popular providers of masses of such data, but are hard to browse. Many systems exist that can show the data’s geospatial distribution in a map widget and their temporal distribution in a time widget, allowing these widgets to become dynamic-query-like filters for data. We present a web application that combines several existing approaches and supports comparison of multiple, potentially large result sets of textual queries in a geospatial and temporal context with extended interaction capabilities. We validate our approach with several case studies and our tool’s learnability in a field experiment.

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Jänicke S., Heine C., Stockmann R. and Scheuermann G. (2012). COMPARATIVE VISUALIZATION OF GEOSPATIAL-TEMPORAL DATA . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-02-0, pages 613-625. DOI: 10.5220/0003833406130625


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@conference{ivapp12,
author={Stefan Jänicke and Christian Heine and Ralf Stockmann and Gerik Scheuermann},
title={COMPARATIVE VISUALIZATION OF GEOSPATIAL-TEMPORAL DATA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={613-625},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003833406130625},
isbn={978-989-8565-02-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - COMPARATIVE VISUALIZATION OF GEOSPATIAL-TEMPORAL DATA
SN - 978-989-8565-02-0
AU - Jänicke S.
AU - Heine C.
AU - Stockmann R.
AU - Scheuermann G.
PY - 2012
SP - 613
EP - 625
DO - 10.5220/0003833406130625