Assessing the quality of geoscientific simulation models with visual analytics methods - a design study

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1459-1479

  Dransch, Doris ^a   Köthur, Patrick ^a   Schulte, Sven ^b   Klemann, Volker ^a   Dobslaw, Henryk ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b University of Applied Science Anhalt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geovisual analytics; Geovisualization; Model assessment; Reasoning; Task analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77957930262     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2010.510800     Document Type: Article

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