GEO-Visualization, Multi-Dimensional GEO-Graphical Interpretation, and Virtual Geographical Interpretation

摘要

This paper explores the research status and future trends in the contest of geo-referenced visualization via the discussion of Geo-Visualization, Multi-Dimensional Geo-Graphical Interpretation and Vitual Geographical Environment. About Geo-Visualization, three concepts including Cartographic Visualization, Geographical Visulaization, and GIS-Visualization are scrutinized, and their relationship is established. Proposed from the aspect of non-visualization, Multi-Dimensional Geo-Graphical Interpretation ahs some different emphases compared with Geo-Visualization, but they should be integrated for the further research on visual thinking, graphics/image thinking, multi-dimensional thinking, spatial cogition and analysis, graphics-based geo-referenced knowledge acquisition and application, etc-Resulting from the integration of vitual reality technlogy and geographica regional systems, Vitual Geographical Environment will be taken as the advnced system which will eventually contain all theories and techniques associated with geo-visualization and Multi-Dimensional Geo-Graphical Interpretation and so on.