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June 10, 2007

workshop context

  1. what is geovisualization?
    • the use of visual representations of geographic information for the exploration and analysis of the data and gaining understanding of the underlying phenomena
    • purposes : scientific discovery, education, decision support
  2. what is geovisualization research?
    • fundamental research aimed at increasing the understanding of how visual representations facilitate discovery, cognition and understanding of geographically related information and phenomena
    • applied research aimed at designing and developing techniques and tools that support this activity in application domains
  3. possible candidate problems from which to choose :
    • large volumes of information
    • complex and heterogeneous information (in particular, space + time)
    • theoretical background
    • deploying geovisualization
    • developing technologies : geo-browsers, semantic web / web2.0 etc. how to use this for the benefit of our research and / or broadening the user community of geovisualization?

Posted by jad7 at June 10, 2007 08:51 AM

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