The Time Wave. A New Method of Visual Exploration of Geo-data in Timespace Export

@article{citeulike:2923021, abstract = {Today's data-rich environment creates its own problems since exploring and analysing vast volumes of spatio-temporal data have become increasingly difficult. It is suggested to approach this problem not only via location-space or attribute-space as is traditionally done in GIScience, but also via time-space. This time-visualisation approach considers the data, the user tasks and the visualisation representations, and aims to improve accessibility, exploration and analysis of huge amounts of geo-data to support geovisual analytics. To reach this objective, the time wave as the temporal visual representation is introduced. The time wave combines the strengths of both the timeline and the time wheel and as such is able to represent linear and cyclic time simultaneously, even at different levels of granularity. The time wave can be used in its role as temporal reference system, as temporal data representation tool, and as temporal interaction tool. It functions in combination with other graphic representations that are typical for location-space and attribute-space.}, author = {Li, Xia and Kraak, Menno-Jan}, citeulike-article-id = {2923021}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/000870408X311387}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/caj/2008/00000045/00000003/art00005}, doi = {10.1179/000870408X311387}, issn = {0008-7041}, journal = {Cartographic Journal, The}, keywords = {cartography, spatial, time, time-series, vision, visual, visualisation, visualization, visuospatial}, month = {August}, number = {3}, pages = {193--200}, posted-at = {2009-03-15 11:24:07}, priority = {4}, publisher = {Maney Publishing}, title = {The Time Wave. A New Method of Visual Exploration of Geo-data in Timespace}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/000870408X311387}, volume = {45}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2923021 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2923021 N2 - Today's data-rich environment creates its own problems since exploring and analysing vast volumes of spatio-temporal data have become increasingly difficult. It is suggested to approach this problem not only via location-space or attribute-space as is traditionally done in GIScience, but also via time-space. This time-visualisation approach considers the data, the user tasks and the visualisation representations, and aims to improve accessibility, exploration and analysis of huge amounts of geo-data to support geovisual analytics. To reach this objective, the time wave as the temporal visual representation is introduced. The time wave combines the strengths of both the timeline and the time wheel and as such is able to represent linear and cyclic time simultaneously, even at different levels of granularity. The time wave can be used in its role as temporal reference system, as temporal data representation tool, and as temporal interaction tool. It functions in combination with other graphic representations that are typical for location-space and attribute-space. IS - 3 JF - Cartographic Journal, The SN - 0008-7041 EP - 200 TI - The Time Wave. A New Method of Visual Exploration of Geo-data in Timespace PB - Maney Publishing VL - 45 SP - 193 KW - cartography KW - spatial KW - time KW - time-series KW - vision KW - visual KW - visualisation KW - visualization KW - visuospatial AU - Li, Xia AU - Kraak, Menno-Jan PY - 2008/08// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/000870408X311387 ER -