Geovisualization: multidimensional exploration of the territory
Résumé
The purpose of this position paper is to emphasize the remaining challenges for geovisualization in an evolutive context of data, users and spatio-temporal problems to solve in an interdisciplinary approach. Geovisualization is the visualization of spatio-temporal data, phenomena and dynamics on earth, based on the user interaction with heterogeneous data, and their capacities of perception and cognition. This implies to bring closer together knowledge, concepts and models from related scientific visualization domains, for a better understanding, interpretation and analysis of spatio-temporal phenomena on earth. We currently face and cross several types of complexities, regarding spaces, data, models and tools. Our position here, based on past and on-going works, as first proofs of concept, is to model a multidimensional exploration of the territory, because integrating explorations of uses, styles, interaction and immersion capacities, until various ’points of view’ on the represented spatio-temporal phenomenon.
