3D geovisualization for visual analysis of urban climate

This paper is about the relevance of proposing geovisualization methods to visually integrate, co-visualize and interact with urban and meteorological data into a 3D environment, in order to support the visual analysis of the urban climate. Meteorological experts and researchers already face meteoro...

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Main Authors: Sidonie Christophe, Jacques Gautier, Paul Chapron, Luke Riley, Valéry Masson
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Language:deu
Published: Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités 2022-03-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/38518
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author Sidonie Christophe
Jacques Gautier
Paul Chapron
Luke Riley
Valéry Masson
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description This paper is about the relevance of proposing geovisualization methods to visually integrate, co-visualize and interact with urban and meteorological data into a 3D environment, in order to support the visual analysis of the urban climate. Meteorological experts and researchers already face meteorological data and climate models analysis issues, at larger scales into the city: yet even if they have existing practices and tools to address these issues, they could take benefit from the knowledge and the methods from the Geovisualization domain, to complement these analyses by a visuospatial reasoning approach.In this paper, based on the knowledge of the expectations of the meteorological experts we are working with, we brought climate analysis into the city and visuospatial reasoning closer, on both heterogeneous urban and air temperature data(1). We reviewed the existing works regarding geovisualization of spatio-temporal phenomena and visualization of meteorological data (2). We then presented the different approaches we fulfilled to provide a 3D geovisualization environment and graphic representations, visually integrating both meteorological and spatial data. One provides style and interaction capacities on those data, enabling the interactive 3D exploration of their spatial and value distributions, throughout the city. Another geovisualization-design experiment is presented as a co-visualization of meteorological data and morphological indicators on 2.5D maps (3). These complementary approaches are presented and discussed with the meteorological experts, based on their relevance to tackle climate analysis at a larger scale and on the refinements required to extend their exploration capacities (4).
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spelling doaj-art-d12e4234c2b3421d928ec1d03fccfd002025-08-20T03:44:35ZdeuUnité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-citésCybergeo1278-33662022-03-0110.4000/cybergeo.385183D geovisualization for visual analysis of urban climateSidonie ChristopheJacques GautierPaul ChapronLuke RileyValéry MassonThis paper is about the relevance of proposing geovisualization methods to visually integrate, co-visualize and interact with urban and meteorological data into a 3D environment, in order to support the visual analysis of the urban climate. Meteorological experts and researchers already face meteorological data and climate models analysis issues, at larger scales into the city: yet even if they have existing practices and tools to address these issues, they could take benefit from the knowledge and the methods from the Geovisualization domain, to complement these analyses by a visuospatial reasoning approach.In this paper, based on the knowledge of the expectations of the meteorological experts we are working with, we brought climate analysis into the city and visuospatial reasoning closer, on both heterogeneous urban and air temperature data(1). We reviewed the existing works regarding geovisualization of spatio-temporal phenomena and visualization of meteorological data (2). We then presented the different approaches we fulfilled to provide a 3D geovisualization environment and graphic representations, visually integrating both meteorological and spatial data. One provides style and interaction capacities on those data, enabling the interactive 3D exploration of their spatial and value distributions, throughout the city. Another geovisualization-design experiment is presented as a co-visualization of meteorological data and morphological indicators on 2.5D maps (3). These complementary approaches are presented and discussed with the meteorological experts, based on their relevance to tackle climate analysis at a larger scale and on the refinements required to extend their exploration capacities (4).https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/38518urban heat islandclimateurban morphologygeovisualization/geovisualisation3D environmentclimate visualization
spellingShingle Sidonie Christophe
Jacques Gautier
Paul Chapron
Luke Riley
Valéry Masson
3D geovisualization for visual analysis of urban climate
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urban heat island
climate
urban morphology
geovisualization/geovisualisation
3D environment
climate visualization
title 3D geovisualization for visual analysis of urban climate
title_full 3D geovisualization for visual analysis of urban climate
title_fullStr 3D geovisualization for visual analysis of urban climate
title_full_unstemmed 3D geovisualization for visual analysis of urban climate
title_short 3D geovisualization for visual analysis of urban climate
title_sort 3d geovisualization for visual analysis of urban climate
topic urban heat island
climate
urban morphology
geovisualization/geovisualisation
3D environment
climate visualization
url https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/38518
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