Supporting the comparison of choropleth maps using an evolutionary algorithm

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 347-358

  Xiao, Ningchuan ^a   Armstrong, Marc P ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Choropleth mapping; Multi objective optimization; Visual correlation; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MAPS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VISUALIZATION;

CHOROPLETH MAPPING; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; VISUAL CORRELATION;

MAPPING;

ALGORITHM; MAPPING; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 31344467163     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1559/152304005775194755     Document Type: Article

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