• Pedestrian routing and perspectives: Wayfinder's route down the lane – come on with the rain 

      Opach, Tomasz; Navarra, Carlo; Rød, Jan Ketil; Neset, Tina-Simone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      People living in urban areas are often exposed to heat and inundation caused by heavy rains. Therefore, pedestrian routing in areas exposed to weather-related threats can be of value to citizens. In this study, water ...
    • A progressive development of a visual analysis interface of climate-related VGI 

      Navarra, Carlo; Vrotsou, Katerina; Opach, Tomasz; Joling, Almar; Wilk, Julie; Neset, Tina-Simone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper describes the progressive development of three approaches of successively increasing analytic functionality for visually exploring and analysing climate-related volunteered geographic information. The information ...
    • Project report: Requirements specification 

      Munkvold, Bjørn Erik; Opach, Tomasz; Radianti, Jaziar; Rød, Jan Ketil; Snaprud, Mikael; Grottenberg, Lars Ole; Pilemalm, Sofie; Bunker, Deborah; Majchrzak, Tim A.; Hagen, Dag Auby; Moen, Eivind; Steen-Tveit, Kristine (Research report, 2020)
      The SAMRISK project “Sharing incident and threat information for common situational understanding“ (INSITU) commenced in May 2019. The INSITU project develops solutions for establishing a common situational understanding ...
    • Seeking commonalities of community resilience to natural hazards: A cluster analysis approach 

      Opach, Tomasz; Scherzer, Sabrina Stefanie Claudia; Lujala, Päivi; Rød, Jan Ketil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The aim of the study on which the article is based was to identify groups of communities with similar resilience profiles, using Norwegian municipalities as a case. The authors used a set of socioeconomic and environmental ...
    • Sharing Incident and Threat Information for Common Situational Understanding 

      Munkvold, Bjørn Erik; Radianti, Jaziar; Rød, Jan Ketil; Opach, Tomasz; Snaprud, Mikael; Pilemalm, Sofie; Bunker, Deborah (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper presents the INSITU research project initiated to provide a systematic approach for effective sharing, integration and use of information from different sources, to establish a common operational picture (COP) ...
    • Star and polyline glyphs in a grid plot and on a map display: which perform better? 

      Opach, Tomasz; Popelka, Stanislav; Dolezalova, Jitka; Rød, Jan Ketil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Glyphs are small geometric shapes that in geovisualization are often used to represent multidimensional spatial data. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of their two 10 types – star and polyline ...
    • Three core activities toward a relevant Integrated vulnerability assessment: validate, visualize, and negotiate 

      Rød, Jan Ketil; Opach, Tomasz; Neset, Tina-Simone (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Future climate in the Nordic countries is expected to become 'warmer, wetter, and wilder', and this will probably cause more extreme weather events. Therefore, local authorities need to improve their ability to assess ...
    • Towards a Route Planner Supporting Pedestrian Navigation in Hazard Exposed Urban Areas 

      Opach, Tomasz; Navarra, Carlo; Rød, Jan Ketil; Neset, Tina-Simone (Chapter, 2020)
      This study aimsto design a routeplanner functionality that includesreal-time context information from physical sensors and citizen observations to support pedestrian navigation in urban areas exposed to extreme heat and ...
    • A user-centric optimization of emergency map symbols to facilitate common operational picture 

      Opach, Tomasz; Rød, Jan Ketil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Common operational understanding among engaged emergency responders is facilitated through shared operational pictures during crisis situations. Sharing is typically achieved through interactive tools, either desktop or ...
    • VisAdapt: A visualization tool to support climate change adaptation 

      Johansson, Jimmy; Opach, Tomasz; Glaas, Erik; Neset, Tina-Simone; Navarra, Carlo; Linnér, Björn-Ola; Rød, Jan Ketil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In this article we present the design and implementation of the web-based visualization tool VisAdapt, developed to support homeowners in the Nordic countries to assess anticipated climate change and climate related risks ...
    • Visual Exploration of Climate-Related Volunteered Geographic Information 

      Navarra, Carlo; Opach, Tomasz; Vrotsou, Katerina; Joling, Almar; Wilk, Julie; Neset, Tina S. (Chapter, 2020)
      This paper describes two approaches for visually exploring climate-related data collected within the citizen science research project, CitizenSensing. The project addresses the need of European cities and their citizens ...
    • Visual Water. En visualiseringsplattform för dagvatten- och skyfallsplanering i ett klimat under förändring 

      Bohman, Anna; Glaas, Erik; Karlsson, Martin; Navarra, Carlo; Olsson, Jonas; Hundecha, Yeshewatesfa; Opach, Tomasz; Neset, Tina-Simone; Linnér, Björn-Ola (Research report, 2021)
      Visual Water (http//visualwater.se) is an interactive web-based platform for geographic and information visualization aiming to support Swedish municipalities working towards sustainable stormwater management. The content ...
    • Vulnerability Visualization to Support Adaptation to Heat and Floods: Towards the EXTRA Interactive Tool in Norrköping, Sweden 

      Opach, Tomasz; Glaas, Erik; Hjerpe, Mattias; Navarra, Carlo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Municipal actors are increasingly expected to consider climate adaptation in operative and strategic work. Here, digital environments can support strategic decisions and planning through visual representations of local ...