The importance of geospatial metadata that describe geographic data resources has grown
along the increase of supply and use of geographic data. Discovery services have been …

This paper considers issues associated with the construction of regions as part of a
programrne of exploratory spatial data analysis in the case of what Cressie (1991) refers to …

Abstract Comparison of landscapes and patterns is a long-standing challenge in spatial
analysis research. Recently, new models and tools developed for non-geographic image …

In recent years geovisualization has morphed into the field of ''geovisual analytics,''
emphasizing human exploration through highly interactive visual interfaces to geographic …

Self-Organizing Maps have been applied in various industrial applications and have proven
to be a valuable data mining tool. In order to fully benefit from their potential, advanced …

This paper describes the design and implementation of three web-based geovisualization
and geocollaboration applications developed for the domain of public health. Each was …

Visual data-mining techniques have proven valuable in exploratory data analysis, and they
have strong potential in the exploration of large databases. Detecting interesting local …

While many data sets carry geographic and temporal references, our ability to analyze these
datasets lags behind our ability to collect them because of the challenges posed by both …

This paper presents the design and development of an open source web-based
Geographical Information System allowing users to visualise, customise and interact with …

Visually-enabled analysis of geographic information with interactive geovisualization tools is
increasingly common in domains like disease surveillance, crisis management, and …