Chapter 46 Translation of visualization related to geo data

Hanlin Tong and Wendy Qian

My partner and I wished to contribute to the community by translating the following paper into Chinese. This paper was published in 2019 by several scholars from Italy and it was aimed to encourage experts and non-experts to explore and to interpret the Spatio-Temporal ground deformation pattern in urban areas by the method it described. To fulfill this goal, two visualization applications were introduced. One was to visualize the mean deformation velocity map and the other one was to animate the cumulative deformation time series. Both visualizations were overlaid on a three-dimensional map and could be accessed via a free and open Web source (FOSS). My partner and I were inspired by this paper, not only because a new method was introduced, but also kept reminding us that data visualization could be and should be interpretable for non-experts and not for experts alone.

This paper has been a useful resource for us, and we hope its translation would be helpful for our classmates as well.

The original paper could be found on isprs website. Our translation can be found on GitHub repo.