Attached is the January 2010 edition of the Integrated Visualization and Analytics Community (iVAC) Newsletter. The Basic/Futures Research Program believes that regular communication is one of the most effective ways to enable our Data and Visual Analytics enterprise to flourish.

The iVAC Newsletter is envisioned as a coordinating function for the various activities coming out of the National Visualization and Analytics Center, the Command, Control and Interoperability Center of Excellence, international university partners and other government agencies.

The thought is to present and share knowledge of these initiatives, accomplishments in various areas (technology, publications, new funding, etc.), up-coming conferences and events, and other significant happenings to the entire community.

Volume graphics deals with the analysis, synthesis and presentation of volumetric phenomena, both static and time-varying. Specifically, it includes topics, both volumetric and point-based, related to the acquisition, reconstruction and transformation of volume data as well as feature analysis, information extraction and rendering. Research papers are solicited that present original, unpublished results concerning all aspects of volume graphics and point-based graphics. We especially invite research contributions that report computational techniques.

The new iVAC newsletter has arrived featuring

• CCICADA Kick-Off
• PIE Workshop
• EU Visual Analytics Portal
• WSU Students at Argonne
• CCI COE Education Initiatives
• IN-SPIRE 4.6 Released
• Visual Analytics at SG ’09
• VisMaster Industry Day
• TCIP 2010
• SCHEDULES OF KEY DATES

Pagrave-Macmillian has published a special issue of the Information Visualization journal on Foundation and Frontiers of Visual Analytics.

Guest Editors: Joe Kielman and Jim Thomas

Volume 8, Number 4, Winter 2009
http://palgrave-journals.com/ivs/

The VACCINE team gathered at Purdue University on November 9, 2009, to celebrate the official kick-off of this component of the new Command, Control and Interoperability Center of Excellence. Indiana Representatives Stephen Buyer and Mark Souder lent their voices in support of VACCINE and its mission. DHS officials Starnes Walker, Matthew Clark and Joe Kielman spoke at the event, emphasizing VACCINE’s research to reality goals.

Dr. Walker said the Center’s projects will help Homeland Security and emergency personnel prepare for, prevent and respond to terrorist attacks and other emergencies.

This and more news in the iVAC Newsletter of November 2009.

The new iVAC Newsletter for October ’09 has arrived!

Visual analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by interactive visual interfaces according to. Over the last decades data was produced at an incredible rate. However, the ability to collect and store this data is increasing at a faster rate than the ability to analyze it. While purely automatic or purely visual analysis methods [...]

The term Visual Analytics has been around for almost five years by now, but still there are on-going discussions about what it actually is and in particular what is new about it. The core of our view on Visual Analytics is the new enabling and accessible analytic reasoning interactions supported by the combination of automated [...]

Daniel A. Keim and Joern Kohlhammer and Giuseppe Santucci and Florian Mansmann and Franz Wanner and Matthias Schaefer, Visual Analytics Challenges, 2009, pp.8, Echallenges 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, [download], [bibtex]

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  author = {Daniel A. Keim and Joern Kohlhammer and Giuseppe Santucci and Florian Mansmann and Franz Wanner and Matthias Schaefer},
  title = {Visual Analytics Challenges},
  pages = {8},
  year = {2009},
  note = {Echallenges 2009, Istanbul, Turkey},
}

Remote sensing image repositories are the fastest growing archives of spatio-temporal information. This leads to large time-series that geoscientists need to explore and understand. Effective exploratory tools are urgently needed to handle the large data sets efficiently. Common application areas that require such tools are, amongst others: climate change and environmental monitoring studies, hazard analysis, [...]