Generating Graphic Sequences for the Visual Exploration of Correlation

地理信息系统（GIS）提供了深刻的 在计算能力的进步，以存储，操纵，并提出 过去几十年的空间数据及其持续发展 在未来的几年里，它将继续影响人们的看法， 分析空间模式和过程。 地理信息系统的使用迅速增加 与之相匹配的是， 数据库。 这些数据库包含了大量的信息， 这大大提高了解决基本问题的可能性， 科学问题，但它们的规模和复杂性使得 确定哪些数据适用于具体分析 更加困难. 访问相关数据的复杂程序 对于集中调查正在开发，但很少有人关注 已被给予的程序开发的简要视觉分析， 相关空间数据。 正如许多地理模式和过程 已经通过硬的视觉比较进行了识别和分析， 复制地图，需要类似的手段来探索“电子 地图集“这个项目将解决理论和软件 关于允许有序调查多时 空间数据库 利用系统变异的知识， 地理和时间数据，研究人员将开发几个 用于自动生成映射序列的过程， 统计图表和其他用于检测和突出显示的图形 突出的空间关系。 将特别注意 开发一个交互式图形界面， 数据库用户控制分析的速度和方向， 专注于特定的模式、关系或地点。 新程序 在此过程中开发的将在焦点小组期间进行评估 与学术界和从业人员的讨论。 该项目应有助于扩大理论 处理空间数据表示和分析的框架。 它还将直接有助于软件和其他 技术进步，最终将加强研究和 大量科学家的教育能力， 使用地理数据的从业人员。

Geographic information systems (GISs) have provided profound advances in computational capacities to store, manipulate, and present spatial data over the last few decades, and their continued development in future years will continue to affect the ways that people view and analyze spatial patterns and processes. Rapidly increasing use of GISs has been matched by development of increasingly detailed spatial databases. These databases contain enormous amounts of information, which greatly enhances possibilities for addressing fundamental scientific questions, but their size and complexity makes identification of which data are appropriate for specific analyses much more difficult. Sophisticated procedures for accessing relevant data for focused inquiries are being developed, but much less attention has been given to development of procedures for summary visual analysis of related spatial data. Just as many geographic patterns and processes have been identified and analyzed through visual comparisons of hard- copy maps, comparable means are needed for exploring "electronic atlases." This project will address the theoretical and software requirements to permit orderly investigations of multi-temporal spatial databases. Using knowledge about systematic variations in geographic and temporal data, the investigator will develop several procedures for the automatic generation of sequences of maps, statistical diagrams, and other graphics for detecting and highlighting salient spatial relationships. Special attention will be given to development of an interactive graphic interface, which will allow database users to control the pace and direction of the analysis and to focus on specific patterns, relationships, or places. New procedures developed during this process will be assessed during focus-group discussions with academics and practitioners. This project should contribute to expansion of theoretical frameworks dealing with the presentation and analysis of spatial data. It also will contribute directly to development of software and other technological advances that ultimately will enhance the research and educational capabilities of a large number of scientists and practitioners who use geographic data.