A vocabulary for a multiscale process description for fast transmission and continuous visualization of spatial data

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2177-2184

  Sester, Monika ^a   Brenner, Claus ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cartography; Generalization; Streaming; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; GENERALIZATION; INDIVIDUAL OBJECTS; LEVEL OF DETAIL; LIMITED BANDWIDTH; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MOBILE COMPUTERS; MULTISCALE PROCESS; MULTISCALES; OBJECT REPRESENTATIONS; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; REPRESENTATION SCHEMES; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL DATASETS; STREAMING; ZOOMING-IN;

MAPPING; MAPS; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

CARTOGRAPHY; DATA SET; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MAP GENERALIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 70349932061     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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