Giga-stack: A method for visualizing giga-pixel layered imagery on massively tiled displays

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 693-700

  Ponto, Kevin ^a   Doerr, Kai ^a   Kuester, Falko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative workspace; Distributed environment; Layered gigapixel visualization; Tiled display system

Indexed keywords

ALL-AT-ONCE; COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS; COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE; COMPLEX DATA; DATA LAYER; DATA RESOURCES; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; MULTI-SPECTRAL; REGISTERED IMAGES; REMOTE NETWORKS; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; TILED DISPLAY; TILED DISPLAY SYSTEMS; TIME VARYING; VISUAL INFORMATION;

VISUAL COMMUNICATION; VISUALIZATION;

PIXELS;

EID: 77950013070     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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