Visualizing large-scale uncertainty in astrophysical data

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1640-1647

  Li, Hongwei ^a,b   Fu, Chi Wing ^a,b   Li, Yinggang ^a,c   Hanson, Andrew J ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Interstellar data; Large spatial scale; Uncertainty visualization

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOID MODEL; INTERSTELLAR DATA; LARGE SPATIAL SCALE; MAGIC-GLASS DESIGN;

ASTRONOMY; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TRAJECTORIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 35948943861     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70530     Document Type: Article

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