Environmental Earth Sciences - Call for Papers

Visual Data Exploration

Guest Editors: Karsten Rink, Roxana Bujack, Stefan Janicke, and Dirk Zeckzer

We would like to publish a Thematic Issue on „Visual Data Exploration”, employed to further the understanding of the Earth system with its short- and long-term processes. This is fundamental for challenging tasks, such as the prediction and management of land-, water-, energy-, and resource scarcity, as well as of natural disasters and their impact (e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods). The amount of data created by state-of-the-art high-resolution monitoring equipment and remote sensing methods as well as the output of environmental simulations on high-performance computers is growing faster than ever. Researchers analyse these complex data collections by using advanced visualisation methods in combination with their perceptual abilities and expert knowledge to gain information on the topic at hand. Intuitive and effective visual exploration techniques enable humans to formulate and test scientific hypotheses, to draw conclusions, and to interact with the data.