Geovisual analytics to support crisis management: Information foraging for geo-historical context

Information Visualization

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 339-359

  Tomaszewski, Brian ^a   MacEachren, Alan M ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Foraging; Mapping; Sense making; Text analysis; User studies

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT; FORAGING; SENSEMAKING; TEXT ANALYSIS; USER STUDY;

AUTOMATION; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; MAPPING; MOBILE DEVICES;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84879379784     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473871612456122     Document Type: Article

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