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Geographic Visualization and MCDA

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Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

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Geographic Visualization, or geovisualization, refers to highly interactive approaches to the cartographic display of geospatial data, which go well beyond traditional thematic mapping. This interactivity allows for multiple perspectives on the same data, thereby supporting an analyst to explore the underlying phenomena and developing scientific hypotheses about them. Geovisualization technology has been combined with MCDA techniques to support decision analysts with advanced human-computer interaction tools. This chapter outlines the use of geovisualization to explore MCDA inputs, MCDA results, and MCDA parameter space. These concepts are discussed using the ArcGIS add-on ‘MCDA4ArcMap’ and a deprivation index for the city of Toronto as an example. This chapter concludes with a discussion of the role of geovisualization and MCDA in public planning and decision-making.

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 5C2, Canada

    Jacek Malczewski

  2. Department of Geography, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada

    Claus Rinner

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Malczewski, J., Rinner, C. (2015). Geographic Visualization and MCDA. In: Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science. Advances in Geographic Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74757-4_11

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