Producing geo-historical context from implicit sources: A geovisual analytics approach

Cartographic Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 165-181

  Tomaszewski, Brian ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis management Humanitarian information; Geo historical context; Geographic information retrieval; Geovisual analytics; Open source information

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY; MAPPING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 49249130717     PISSN: 00087041     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000870408X311369     Document Type: Article

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