EnvirVis 2015
Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences
Cagliari, Italy May 25-26, 2015
Workshop Chairs
Karsten Rink, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany Ariane Middel, Center for Integrated Solutions to Climate Challenges,
Arizona State University, USA
Gunther Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Publicity Chair
Stefan Koch, Leipzig University, Germany
Proceedings Production Editor
Dieter Fellner (TU Darmstadt & Fraunhofer IGD, Germany) Sponsored by EUROGRAPHICS Association
DOI: 10.2312/envirvis.20152008
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents . . . iii International Programme Committee . . . v Author Index . . . vi
Uncertainty and Climate
Visualization of 2D Uncertainty in Decadal Climate Predictions . . . 1 Michael Böttinger, Holger Pohlmann, Niklas Röber, Karin Meier-Fleischer, and Dela Spickermann Multi-Purpose Exploration of Uncertain Data for the Video Monitoring of Ecosystems . . . 7 Emma Beauxis-Aussalet and Lynda Hardman
Web-Based Visualization of the Global Change Assessment Model . . . 13 Wei Luo, Zheng Chang, Lilian Kong, Robert Link, Mohamad Hejazi, Leon Clarke, and Ross
Maciejewski
Spatial Aggregation of Mobile Transect Measurements for the Identification of Climatic
Microenvironments . . . 19 Kathrin Häb, Ariane Middel, Benjamin L. Ruddell, and Hans Hagen
Concepts for Workflows and Visualisation
A Collaborative Web-Based Environmental Data Visualization and Analysis Framework . . . 25 Jonas Lukasczyk, Xing Liang, Wei Luo, Eric D. Ragan, Ariane Middel, Nadya Bliss, Dave White, Hans Hagen, and Ross Maciejewski
Towards Interactive Definition of Fast Surrogate Models for Geochemical Simulations Using
Visual Analysis . . . 31 Janis Jatnieks, Mike Sips, Marco De Lucia, and Doris Dransch
Real-Time Visualization of Urban Flood Simulation Data for Non-Professionals . . . 37 Sebastian Grottel, Joachim Staib, Torsten Heyer, Benjamin Vetter, and Stefan Gumhold
Probability Maps for the Visualization of Assimilation Ensemble Flow Data . . . 43 Thomas Höllt, Markus Hadwiger, Omar Knio, and Ibrahim Hoteit
Visual Analytics and Image Analysis
VafusQ: A Visual Analytics Application with Data Quality Features to Support the Urban
Planning Process . . . 49 John A. Triana, Dirk Zeckzer, Jose T. Hernandez, and Hans Hagen
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An Interactive Web-Based Geovisual Analytics Tool to Explore Water Scarcity in Niger River
Basin . . . 55 Ting L. Lei, Xing Liang, Giuseppe Mascaro, Wei Luo, Dave White, Paul Westerhoff, and
Ross Maciejewski
Mining Social Images to Analyze Routing Preferences in Tourist Areas . . . 61 Alessandro Torrisi, Giovanni Signorello, Giovanni Gallo, Maria De Salvo, and Giovanni
Maria Farinella
Visualizing Category-Specific Changes in Oblique Photographs of Mountain Landscapes . . . 67 Frédéric Jean, Alexandra Branzan Albu, David Capson, Eric Higgs, Jason T. Fisher, and
Brian M. Starzomski
International Programme Committee Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA
Georges-Pierre Bonneau, INRIA Grenoble, France Ibrahim Demir, University of Iowa, USA
Urska Demsar, University of St. Andrews, UK Doris Dransch, GFZ, Germany
Jocelyne Erhel, INRIA Rennes, France Sebastian Grottel, TU Dresden, Germany
Hans Hagen, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Carolin Helbig, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Germany Federico Iuricich, University of Maryland, USA
Michal Koutek, KNMI, Netherlands Niklas Röber, DKRZ, Germany Stefania Traverso, CIMA, Italy
Alexander Wieber, Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Thomas Wischgoll, Wright State University, USA
Dirk Zeckzer, University of Leipzig, Germany
Author Index
Beauxis-Aussalet, Emma . . . 7
Bliss, Nadya . . . 25
Böttinger, Michael . . . 1
Branzan Albu, Alexandra . . . 67
Capson, David . . . 67
Chang, Zheng . . . 13
Clarke, Leon . . . 13
De Lucia, Marco . . . 31
De Salvo, Maria . . . 61
Dransch, Doris . . . 31
Farinella, Giovanni Maria . . . 61
Fisher, Jason T. . . 67
Gallo, Giovanni . . . 61
Grottel, Sebastian . . . 37
Gumhold, Stefan . . . 37
Häb, Kathrin . . . 19
Hadwiger, Markus . . . 43
Hagen, Hans . . . 19, 25, 49 Hardman, Lynda . . . 7
Hejazi, Mohamad . . . 13
Hernandez, Jose T. . . 49
Heyer, Torsten . . . 37
Higgs, Eric . . . 67
Höllt, Thomas . . . 43
Hoteit, Ibrahim . . . 43
Jatnieks, Janis . . . 31
Jean, Frédéric . . . 67
Knio, Omar . . . 43
Kong, Lilian . . . 13
Lei, Ting L. . . 55
Liang, Xing . . . 25, 55 Link, Robert . . . 13
Lukasczyk, Jonas . . . .25
Luo, Wei . . . 13, 25, 55 Maciejewski, Ross . . . 13, 25, 55 Mascaro, Giuseppe . . . 55
Meier-Fleischer, Karin . . . 1
Middel, Ariane . . . 19, 25 Pohlmann, Holger . . . 1
Ragan, Eric D. . . 25
Röber, Niklas . . . 1
Ruddell, Benjamin L. . . 19
Signorello, Giovanni . . . 61
Sips, Mike . . . 31
Spickermann, Dela . . . 1
Staib, Joachim . . . 37
Starzomski, Brian M. . . 67
Torrisi, Alessandro . . . 61
Triana, John A. . . .49
Vetter, Benjamin . . . 37
Westerhoff, Paul . . . 55
White, Dave . . . 25, 55 Zeckzer, Dirk . . . 49
