Virtual environments for geographic visualization: Potential and challenges

Proceedings of the 1999 Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation in conjunction with the 8th ACM Internation Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, NPIVM 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 35-40

  MacEachren, Alan M ^a   Edsall, Robert ^a   Haug, Daniel ^a   Baxter, Ryan ^a   Otto, George ^a   Masters, Raymon ^a   Fuhrmann, Sven ^a,b   Qian, Liujian ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Interactivity; Maps; Scientific visualization; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MAPS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COLLABORATION; GEOGRAPHIC VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVITY;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 85010774956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/331770.331781     Document Type: Conference Paper

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