Supporting geographically-aware web document foraging and sensemaking

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 192-207

  Tomaszewski, Brian ^a   Blanford, Justine ^b   Ross, Kevin ^b   Pezanowski, Scott ^b   MacEachren, Alan M ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information retrieval; Infectious disease dynamics; Information foraging; Niger; Sensemaking; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE DYNAMICS; INFORMATION FORAGING; NIGER; SENSEMAKING; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

FOOD SUPPLY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; VISUALIZATION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOPOLITICS; GIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MAPPING; POPULATION MIGRATION; RESEARCH WORK; SOFTWARE; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

NIGER [WEST AFRICA];

EID: 79953759244     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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