A conceptual framework for the design of geo-dynamics visualization

Some contributed works can be contributed as follows: (1) A category method is presented to reorganize geo-dynamics types, and thus making them more robust in understanding the nature of geo-dynamics data and capturing geo-dynamics types; (2) Based on (1), the conceptual framework is presented to guide designer or user as to how to select the geo-dynamics visualization methods, according to characteristics of Spatial-Temporal data that needs to be analyzed, and tasks (user's requirements) that need to be fulfilled, and geo-dynamics types that need to be displayed. Following the conceptual framework as the guideline, it can help designers of various domain-specific applications to combine available visualization methods, and then help users to quickly determine a method with higher satisfactions.