Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Geovisualisation applies design and technology
to spatial data for visual exploration, synthesis,
analysis and presentation
- SPATIAL DATA
- spatial data models
- Raster
- Vector
- Abstract representations
of the real world
- INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
- DESIGN
- Graphic variables
- Visual
- Sound
- Animation
- Tactile (Haptic)
- Variables to support
understanding of spatial
data (Bertin, 83; DiBiase,
92; MacEachren 95)
- Cartographic
interaction objectives
- Identify
- Compare
- Rank
- Delineate
- Associate
- User objectives to explore,
analyse, and synthesise spatial
data (Roth, 2012)
- Human visual
system
- Depth
- Pattern
- User experience
- Technical skill
- Humans wired to
respond quickly to visual
cues
- Cognitive science
- Proximity
- Enclosure
- Similarity
- Continuity
- Generalisation
- How users
process
information
- INTERACTIVE VISUAL
INTERFACES
- Immersion
- little or no immersion
- Partial immersion
- Full immersion
- Interactivity
- Solitary interrogation
- Group presentation
- Group analysis and discovery
- Ability to manipulate display
- Multiple linked displayes
- Virtual globes
- 2D Maps
- Graphs
- Tables
- Static, dynamic, &/or
real time
- 3D Maps
- Images
- Information intensity
- Level of detail
- Scale
- Interface
Interaction tools
- Motion
- Voice
- Gesture
- Touch
- Spatial/ attributes
in space
- Relationships
- Activities
- State
- Processes
- Patterns/ clusters
- Spatio-temporal
- Trends
- Rate of change
- Duration of change
- Events/ step change
- Cyclic change
- enables users to explore,
analyse, synthesise and
communicate spatial and
spatio-temporal patterns, trends
and processes
- Intelligence of objects
- Avatars
- MacEachren's
four 'I' factors (1996)
- Usability
- Collaborative,
user-centred design
- Accuracy/ Legitimacy
- Comprehension
- Efficiency
- User satisfaction/
attractiveness
- transforms spatial data into
appropriate representations
to effectively convey
information
- Processing power
- Combine visualisation with
computationally intense data analysis
- Software
- GIS desktop
- GIS web/ mobile
- Exploratory data analysis
- Visual programming languages
- Geovisualisation
- Computer graphics
- Rapidly render spatial
data, including 3D
objects
- Internet
- Web servers
- Supports geocollaboration
- Growing data accessibility
- 3D graphics for web via
VRML, KML, X3D
- Hardware
- Spatial database
structure
- enables spatial data to
be stored, processed and
rendered for visual
display
- Attribute data models
- Network
- Relational
- Object-oriented
- Hierarchical
- Tabular
- Store attribute
information linked to
spatial data
- Data sources
- GPS survey
- remotely sensed
(satellite/aerial imagery)
- Terrestrial sensors
- Administrative/political
- Volunteered Geographic
Information