地理信息检索的可视化

大部分有用的数字信息与地球上的地点和区域相联系。针对数字图书馆的传统可视化界面没有被设计成用来处理数据的独一无二的地理空间特征，也没有更好地利用地理参考信息的特点并将其作为浏览和检索信息的机制，本文阐明了地理空间信息可视化界面的发展趋势，并且提出了多媒体地理空间文献空间有效可视化所面临的主要挑战。本文列举了最新的研究成果，并且回顾针对集成文献可视化(在信息科学领域得到发展)与地理可视化技术(在地理空间信息学科领域得到发展)的若干尝试，以支持科学的信息获取和决策。作者得出了一组空间认知原则，它们影响了地理空间信息可视化界面的未来发展。

Visualization for Geographical Information Retrieval

Majority of the available digital information are associated with some location or regions on the Earth.  Traditional visual interfaces to digital libraries were not designed to deal with the unique geospatial characteristics of data, nor did they take full advantage of the georeferencing as a mechanism for browsing and retrieving information.   This paper highlights the trends of visual interfaces to geospatial information, and suggests major challenges towards effective visualization of multimedia geospatial document space.  Citing recent research efforts, we review the attempts to integrate document visualization (developed in information science) with geovisualization techniques (developed in geographical information science) to support science, information access and decision making.   We conclude by a set of spatial cognitive principles that influence future development of such visual interfaces to geographic information.