Title :
VisAdapt — Increasing nordic houseowners´ adaptive capacity to climate change
Author :
Johansson, Jimmy ; Navarra, Carlo ; Neset, Tina ; Glaas, Erik ; Opach, Tomasz ; Linner, Bjorn-Ola
Abstract :
This poster presents the design and implementation of the web-based visual analytics tool VisAdapt which allows houseowners in the Nordic countries to assess potential climate related risk factors that may have an impact on their living conditions, and to get an overview of existing guidelines of how to adapt to climate change and extreme weather effects.
Keywords :
Internet; climate mitigation; data analysis; data visualisation; geophysics computing; weather forecasting; Nordic countries; Nordic houseowners adaptive capacity; VisAdapt; Web-based visual analytics tool; climate change; extreme weather effects; potential climate related risk factor assessment; Educational institutions; Insurance; Sea measurements; Storms; Temperature measurement; Visual analytics; I.3.6 [Computing Methodologies]: Methodology and Techniques — Interaction techniques; J.2 [Physical sciences and engineering]: Earth and atmospheric sciences;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2014 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
DOI :
10.1109/VAST.2014.7042517
