Environmental simulation models are created to understand environmental processes and to analyse future scenarios. To asses the quality of simulation models various methods are applied, one is to validate model output against collected data. [...]

The Swedish road administration has for this winter season introduced an advanced road warning prediction system that has been developed in close collaboration with Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute SMHI. [...]

The shipping industry has a need to draw accurate conclusions and make well planned decisions regarding routes and weather factors. There are a large number of variables affecting the success of every sea voyage performed by vessels such as cargo ships. Important aspects being considered are speed, safety and costs because of their direct impact [...]

http://ncva.itn.liu.se/explorer Recent advances in web-enabled graphics technologies have the potential to make a dramatic impact on developing highly interactive Geovisual Analytics applications for the Internet. An emerging and challenging application domain is geovisualization of regional (sub-national) statistics. Higher integration driven by institutional processes and economic globalisation is eroding national borders and creating competition along regional [...]

Today, in many spheres of human activity, massive amounts of data are collected and stored. As the volumes of data available to lawmakers, civil servants, business people and scientists increase, their effective use becomes more challenging. Simply keeping up to date with the flood of data, using standard tools for data analysis and management, is [...]

There is no doubt that the advent of computer technology has made peoples’ lives easier and computer applications have expanded to impact on almost every aspect of our lives. These applications require huge amounts of storage space for the information and data that they gather and use. The services of specialised computer analysts to help [...]

With VisMaster, we want to push the limits of today’s Visual Analytics. To achieve this goal, we formed a Coordination Action to join European academic and industrial R&D excellence from several individual disciplines.