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Colormapping resources and strategies for organized intuitive environmental visualization

Authors: Francesca Samsel, Phillip Wolfram, Annie Bares, Terece L. Turton, Roxana Bujack

Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Issue 9/2019

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Visualizations benefit from the use of intuitive organized color application, enabling a clearer understanding and communication. In this paper, we apply the concept of semantic color association to the generation of thematic colormaps for the environmental sciences in combination with principals of artistic color theory to expand feature resolution and create visual hierarchies within a visualization. In particular, we provide sets of color scales, colormaps and color organization guidance for semantically aligned water, atmosphere, land, and vegetation visualization. Strategies for directing attention via saturation levels and saturation sets of colormaps enable deployment of these techniques. All are publicly available online and accompanied by tools and strategy guidance.

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Title: Colormapping resources and strategies for organized intuitive environmental visualization
Authors: Francesca Samsel
Phillip Wolfram
Annie Bares
Terece L. Turton
Roxana Bujack
Publication date: 01-05-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences / Issue 9/2019
Print ISSN: 1866-6280
Electronic ISSN: 1866-6299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-019-8237-9

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