Neighborhood relation diagrams for local comparison of carbon footprints in urban planning

Information Visualization

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 124-135

  Engel, Daniel ^a   Petsch, Sebastian ^a   Hagen, Hans ^a   Guhathakurta, Subhrajit ^b  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

and environmental sciences; carbon footprint visualization; geometry based techniques; geovisualization; space; Visualization in earth; Voronoi diagrams

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; GEOMETRY-BASED TECHNIQUES; GEOVISUALIZATION; SPACE; VORONOI DIAGRAMS;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; VISUALIZATION;

URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84871763764     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473871611433714     Document Type: Article

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