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Connecting People, Data and Resources

Ken Brodlie, Heike Blechschmied, David Fairbairn, Zarine Kemp, and Michael Schroeder

In J Dykes, A MacEachren, and M-J Kraak, editors, Exploring Geovisualization, pages 182-196. Oxford: Elsevier, 2004 (in press).

Abstract

This chapter illustrates how challenging problems in geovisualization may be solved by harnessing activities on a distributed scale: bringing a range of people, a range of data and a range of resources to bear on the problem. The discussion is framed around a scenario of environmental crisis management - a flood emergency - which is typical of the challenges that only a distributed approach can solve in an effective and timely manner. We discuss some of the tools and technologies already available to meet the needs of this scenario, and some of the obstacles that remain to be overcome. We finish by reviewing the scenario against the recent Research Agenda of the ICA Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environments.



Bibtex Record

@incollection{1857,
author = {Ken Brodlie and Heike Blechschmied and David Fairbairn and Zarine Kemp and Michael Schroeder},
title = {{Connecting People, Data and Resources}},
month = {unknown},
year = {2004},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {(in press)},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2004/1857},
    keywords = {Geovisualization, distributed computing, CSCW, collaborative visualization, Grid computing, environmental crisis management, ontologies, Semantic web},
    publication_type = {incollection},
    submission_id = {11_1080569370},
    booktitle = {Exploring Geovisualization},
    publisher = {Oxford: Elsevier},
    editor = {J Dykes and A MacEachren and M-J Kraak},
}

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