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Emerging Field of Geovisual Analytics
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on Friday June 01, @10:23AM
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from the emerging-opportunities-to-understand-life dept.
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Vector One shortly introduces the emerging field of "geovisual analytics". What is geovisual analytics? From this pdf [3.62MB]: "Geovisual Analytics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that integrates perspectives from Visual Analytics (grounded in Information and Scientific Visualization) and Geographic Information Science (growing particularly on work in geovisualization, geospatial semantics and knowledge management, geocomputation, and spatial analysis). Geovisual Analytics tools help identify relevant geospatial information, data, and knowledge by supporting analytical process that meld innate human abilities of vision and cognition with computer-based visual interfaces that provide flexible connections to relevant data and supporting knowledge, and that are specifically designed to provide support for analytical reasoning. Often the activities that Geovisual Analytics is directed toward involve recognizing relevant information in enormous datasets that make what is relevant difficult to determine using traditional methods."
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Vector One and Spatial Sustain share their thoughts on why is there so little geospatial analysis. From V1: "We need to ask ourselves, what is the role of traditional science such as geo-computation, mathematics and statistics in modern day geospatial analysis and what is the role of some of the new technologies (often generated from traditional geospatial analysis) like virtual worlds, VR and probably robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) to come soon." From SS: "In a sense, the creation of thematic map products for distinct purposes is a means of analysis as it performs a function with geospatial data that aims to answer questions, but what’s missing is the in-depth spatial modeling, spatial statistics and spatial data mining that prove the power of GIS."
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