WarViews: Visualizing and animating geographic data on civil war

International Studies Perspectives

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-48

  Weidmann, Nils B ^a   Kuse, Doreen ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Civil war; Geography; Spatial web service; Teaching conflict

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; DATA SET; GIS; INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT; SOFTWARE; TRAINING; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 59549103438     PISSN: 15283577     EISSN: 15283585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-3585.2008.00356.x     Document Type: Article

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