Overview
- Highlights the importance of Visual Analytics for environmental security
- Stresses the role of harmonization for environmental data access and processing
- Provides a broad view on a large range of issues related to environmental security
- Presents best practices on the use of IT technologies for sustainable development
- Presents different political, economical and social factors
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security (NAPSC)
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Access, distribution and processing of Geographic Information (GI) are basic preconditions to support strategic environmental decision-making. The heterogeneity of information on the environment today available is driving a wide number of initiatives, on both sides of the Atlantic, all advocating both the strategic role of proper management and processing of environme- related data as well as the importance of harmonized IT infrastructures designed to better monitor and manage the environment. The extremely wide range of often multidimensional environmental information made available at the global scale poses a great challenge to technologists and scientists to find extremely sophisticated yet effective ways to provide access to relevant data patterns within such a vast and highly dynamic information flow. In the past years the domain of 3D scientific visualization has developed several solutions designed for operators requiring to access results of a simulation through the use of 3D visualization that could support the understanding of an evolving phenomenon. However 3D data visualization alone does not provide model and hypothesis-making neither it provide tools to validate results. In order overcome this shortcoming, in recent years scientists have developed a discipline that combines the benefits of data mining and information visualization, which is often referred to as Visual Analytics (VA).
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Table of contents (40 papers)
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Front Matter
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Signal and Data Processing
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Earth Observation and Remote Sensing
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Scientific Visualization
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: GeoSpatial Visual Analytics
Book Subtitle: Geographical Information Processing and Visual Analytics for Environmental Security
Editors: Raffaele De Amicis, Radovan Stojanovic, Giuseppe Conti
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2899-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2897-6Published: 21 July 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2898-3Published: 27 November 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2899-0Published: 11 July 2009
Series ISSN: 1874-6519
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6543
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 508
Topics: Environmental Science and Engineering, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Geology, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics