An XML-based infrastructure to enhance collaborative geographic visual analytics

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 281-293

  Kramis, Marc ^a   Gabathuler, Cedric ^b   Fabrikant, Sara Irina ^b   Waldvogel, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Data storage and access; Geographic visual analytics; Interoperability; SVG; Web interface; XML

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY; COMPRESSION RATIOS; DATA ACCESS; DATA SETS; DATA STORAGE; DATA STORAGE AND ACCESS; END USERS; END-USER PERSPECTIVE; GEOGRAPHIC VISUAL ANALYTICS; GEOVISUAL ANALYTICS; INTERACTIVITY; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHICS; SEMI-STRUCTURED; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SVG; UNSTRUCTURED DATA; VISUAL ANALYTICS; WEB INTERFACE; WEB LAYER; XML DATABASE;

COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTEROPERABILITY; MARKUP LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; XML;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; DATABASE; EMPLOYMENT; GRAPHICAL METHOD; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INTERFACE; INTERNET; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 70349122101     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1559/152304009788988305     Document Type: Article

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