Geografie 2019, 124, 163-185

https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie2019124020163

Intuitiveness of geospatial uncertainty visualizations: a user study on point symbols

Jan Brus, Michal Kučera, Stanislav Popelka

Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Science, Department of Geoinformatics, Czechia

Received November 2018
Accepted May 2019

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