TY - GEN
T1 - Using K-Means Clustering for a Spatial Analysis of Multivariate and Time-Varying Microclimate Data
AU - Häb, Kathrin
AU - Middel, Ariane
AU - Hagen, Hans
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the German Science Foundation (DFG, Grant 1131) as part of the International Graduate School (IRTG 1131) at University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and the National Science Foundation (Grant SES-0951366, Decision Center for a Desert City II: Urban Climate Adaptation). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsoring agencies.
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PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this study, we propose a k-means clustering algorithm combined with glyph-based encoding method to analyze the spatial distribution and dependence of multivariate, time-varying 3D microclimate data. We obtained five climate variables, i.e. air and surface temperature, specific humidity, direct shortwave radiation and sensible heat flux, from an ENVI-met™ simulation of a residential neighborhood in Phoenix, AZ. In a preprocessing step, we aggregated the 3D gridded simulation data by adding up value differences between two consecutive time steps for each grid cell over the entire simulation time to get a highly compressed view of the data without losing the spatial context. K-means clustering was then conducted in coordinate space by weighting each grid cell based on its difference to the spatial mean of temporal value differences. To reduce occlusion and to encode additional cluster member information, the visualization focused on the k-means cluster centroids. Resulting images show that the applied technique is suitable to provide a first insight into the spatial relationship of features based on their temporal variability.
AB - In this study, we propose a k-means clustering algorithm combined with glyph-based encoding method to analyze the spatial distribution and dependence of multivariate, time-varying 3D microclimate data. We obtained five climate variables, i.e. air and surface temperature, specific humidity, direct shortwave radiation and sensible heat flux, from an ENVI-met™ simulation of a residential neighborhood in Phoenix, AZ. In a preprocessing step, we aggregated the 3D gridded simulation data by adding up value differences between two consecutive time steps for each grid cell over the entire simulation time to get a highly compressed view of the data without losing the spatial context. K-means clustering was then conducted in coordinate space by weighting each grid cell based on its difference to the spatial mean of temporal value differences. To reduce occlusion and to encode additional cluster member information, the visualization focused on the k-means cluster centroids. Resulting images show that the applied technique is suitable to provide a first insight into the spatial relationship of features based on their temporal variability.
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U2 - 10.2312/PE.EnvirVis.EnvirVis13.013-017
DO - 10.2312/PE.EnvirVis.EnvirVis13.013-017
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85123870806
T3 - 1st Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, EnvirVis 2013 at EuroVis 2013
SP - 13
EP - 17
BT - 1st Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, EnvirVis 2013 at EuroVis 2013
A2 - Kolditz, O.
A2 - Rink, K.
A2 - Scheuermann, G.
PB - The Eurographics Association
T2 - 1st Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, EnvirVis 2013
Y2 - 17 June 2013 through 18 June 2013
ER -