Floating ring: A new tool for visualizing distortion in map projections

Proceedings - Computer Graphics International, CGI 1998

Volumn 1998-January, Issue , 1998, Pages 466-480

  Brainerd, Jeffrey ^a   Pang, Alex ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartography; Distortion; Map projections; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DISTORTION (WAVES); FLOW VISUALIZATION; MAPPING; MAPS; VISUALIZATION;

ANGULAR DISTORTIONS; FLOATING RING; GLOBAL CLIMATES; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; MAP PROJECTION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 85010707386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CGI.1998.694300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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