Adjacent versus coincident representations of geospatial uncertainty: Which promote better decisions?

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 511-520

  Viard, Thomas ^a   Caumon, Guillaume ^a   Lévy, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Perception; Transparency; Uncertainty visualization; User study

Indexed keywords

3-D GEOLOGICAL MODELS; 3-D SPACE; DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; DIRECT OBSERVATION; EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; GEO-SPATIAL; GEOLOGICAL-ENTITIES; GRADUATE STUDENTS; MAP DATA; MIDDLE EAST; OIL AND GAS RESERVOIR; OPTIMAL LOCATIONS; PERCEPTION; PRESSURE DATA; SPATIAL UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY VISUALIZATION; USER STUDY; WELL DESIGN;

DATA VISUALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LOCATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; STUDENTS; TEACHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSPARENCY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERCEPTION; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 79952619724     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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