Intuitive Colormaps for Environmental Visualization

Samsel, Francesca; Turton, Terece L.; Wolfram, Philip; Bujack, Roxana

Intuitive Colormaps for Environmental Visualization

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Date

2017

Authors

Samsel, Francesca
Turton, Terece L.
Wolfram, Philip
Bujack, Roxana

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Visualizations benefit from the use of intuitive colors, enabling an observer to make use of more automatic, subconscious channels. In this paper, we apply the concept of intuitive color association to the generation of thematic colormaps for the environmental sciences. In particular, we provide custom sets of colorscales for water, atmosphere, land, and vegetation. These have been integrated into the online tool: ColorMoves: The Environment to enable the environmental scientist to tailor them precisely to the data and tasks in a simple drag-and-drop workflow.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:envirvis.20171105
,
booktitle = {Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis)
},
editor = {Karsten Rink and Ariane Middel and Dirk Zeckzer and Roxana Bujack
},
title = {{Intuitive Colormaps for Environmental Visualization
}},
author = {Samsel, Francesca and 
Turton, Terece L. and 
Wolfram, Philip and 
Bujack, Roxana
},
year = {2017
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-040-6
},
DOI = {10.2312/envirvis.20171105
}
}