Interactive visual summaries for detection and assessment of spatiotemporal patterns in geospatial time series

Information Visualization

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 283-298

  Köthur, Patrick ^a   Sips, Mike ^a   Unger, Andrea ^a   Kuhlmann, Julian ^a   Dransch, Doris ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geospatial time series analysis; Hierarchical clustering; Interactive visual summary; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; GEOSPATIAL TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; INTERACTIVE VISUAL SUMMARY; MEASUREMENT DEVICE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84906571991     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473871613481692     Document Type: Article

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