Visualization of geo-spatial point sets via global shape transformation and local pixel placement

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 749-756

  Panse, Christian ^a,b   Sips, Mike ^a,c   Keim, Daniel A ^a,d   North, Stephen C ^a,e  

^a IEEE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^e AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartogram; Geo spatial data; Pixel visualization; Shape transformation

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAM; GEO SPATIAL DATA; PIXEL VISUALIZATION; SHAPE TRANSFORMATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA STRUCTURES; MAPPING; PHOTOMAPPING; TRACKING (POSITION);

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845659007     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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