Visual Analytics in Environmental Research: A Survey on Challenges, Methods and Available Tools

Komenda, Martin; Schwarz, Daniel

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41151-9_58

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“…Providing guidelines for environmental informatics and sustainability informatics including their link to visualization technologies [198, 199] will help drive SLD into more actionable product planning.…”

Section: Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

Ramanujan

Bernstein

Chandrasegaran

et al. 2017

Journal of Mechanical Design

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The rapid rise in technologies for data collection has created an unmatched opportunity to advance the use of data-rich tools for lifecycle decision-making. However, the usefulness of these technologies is limited by the ability to translate lifecycle data into actionable insights for human decision-makers. This is especially true in the case of sustainable lifecycle design (SLD), as the assessment of environmental impacts, and the feasibility of making corresponding design changes, often relies on human expertise and intuition. Supporting human sense-making in SLD requires the use of both data-driven and user-driven methods while exploring lifecycle data. A promising approach for combining the two is through the use of visual analytics (VA) tools. Such tools can leverage the ability of computer-based tools to gather, process, and summarize data along with the ability of human-experts to guide analyses through domain knowledge or data-driven insight. In this paper, we review previous research that has created VA tools in SLD. We also highlight existing challenges and future opportunities for such tools in different lifecycle stages—design, manufacturing, distribution & supply chain, use-phase, end-of-life, as well as life cycle assessment. Our review shows that while the number of VA tools in SLD is relatively small, researchers are increasingly focusing on the subject matter. Our review also suggests that VA tools can address existing challenges in SLD and that significant future opportunities exist.

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Section: Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

Ramanujan

Bernstein

Chandrasegaran

et al. 2017

Journal of Mechanical Design

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“…While the relations between the diverse factors is complex, geospatial and temporal aspects of the environmental data further complicate it. Recent satellite imaging and data collection technology allow for acquiring data that is frequent and of high resolution [19,78]. This high volume, multiple resolutions, and scale of geotemporal data contribute to the complexity of environmental data.…”

Section: Environmental Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Merging multiple visual and interactive representations helps analysts to generate hypotheses, identify new lines of enquiry, understand patterns, and derive new insights from what is being shown [75]. With these advantages, decision support systems in various fields are increasingly employing visual analytics approaches [8,78,112].…”

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Geo-Coordinated Parallel Coordinates (GCPC): A Case Study of Environmental Data Analysis

Meseery

Hoeber

2015

Discovery Science

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“…[84] ─ mobile applications on smart mobile devices play an increasingly important role; in [85] an example is given to use crowd sourcing to cope with illegal waste dumping ─ again many papers are in relationship to pan national information infrastructures, e.g. for reporting [86] ─ [87] is giving an introduction into visual analytics methods and tools…”

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Topics in Environmental Software Systems

Denzer¹

2015

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Part 1: Keynotes and Context ArticlesInternational audienceEnvironmental software systems (ESS) are software systems supporting activities of environmental protection, environmental management, environmental policy and environmental sciences. ESS often overlap with adjacent application fields like security, agriculture, health or climate change. The ISESS conference series is one of several overlapping events which are devoted to environmental modelling and software systems. ISESS is probably the one international event which has the strongest focus on the software angle.This paper gives a historic perspective of 20 years of ISESS conferences. Starting with a historic review of the development of the field named “environmental software systems”, it puts the ISESS conference into the greater perspective of similar activities. Using the original materials the paper identifies typical themes subsumed under ESS, and highlights typical topics for the time.The paper is the only existing complete collection of activities of the IFIP working group 5.11 “Computers and Environment”. Material of all events, ISESS conferences as well as co-organised workshops has been collected in one central place and will also to be kept up to date in the future

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Visual Analytics in Environmental Research: A Survey on Challenges, Methods and Available Tools

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

Geo-Coordinated Parallel Coordinates (GCPC): A Case Study of Environmental Data Analysis

Topics in Environmental Software Systems

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