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Menno-Jan Kraak is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences, focusing primarily on geography, planning, and development. Additional subfields of their scholarship include global and planetary change, signal processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, and transportation.

Kraak's work encompasses a range of topics centered around geographic information systems and spatial analysis. These topics include:

  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Data Visualization and Analytics
  • Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

The scientist has published research in various venues, with frequent publications appearing in the following journals and conferences:

  • Abstracts of the ICA
  • International Journal of Cartography
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Journal of Maps
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Selected recent publications provide insight into the scope and currency of their research activity. These include:

  • Ecosystem service flows: A systematic literature review of marine systems (2022), published in Ecosystem Services
  • Epidemics and pandemics in maps - the case of COVID-19 (2020), published in Journal of Maps
  • Machine learning-based characterisation of urban morphology with the street pattern (2024), published in Computers Environment and Urban Systems
  • An interactive web-based geovisual analytics platform for co-clustering spatio-temporal data (2020), published in Computers & Geosciences
  • Topographic and thematic (in)visibility of Small Island Developing States in a world map (2020), published in Journal of Maps

Kraak collaborates frequently with a core group of co-authors, reflecting interdisciplinary partnerships. These include Ferjan Ormeling, Mingshu Wang, Britta Ricker, Cai Wu, and Jiong Wang.

The scientist has contributed to book literature as well, with a publication titled Cartography: Visualization of Geospatial Data, Fourth Edition, released in 2020 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Research challenges in geovisualization

    Alan M. MacEachren;Menno-Jan Kraak

  • Cartography: Visualization of Spatial Data

    Menno-Jan Kraak;F.J. Ormeling

  • Cartography: Visualization of Geospatial Data, Fourth Edition

    Menno-Jan Kraak;Ferjan Ormeling

  • Exploratory cartographic visualization: advancing the agenda

    Alan M. MacEachren;Menno-Jan Kraak

  • Geovisual analytics for spatial decision support: Setting the research agenda

    G. Andrienko;N. Andrienko;P. Jankowski;D. Keim

  • Space, time and visual analytics

    Gennady Andrienko;Natalia Andrienko;Urska Demsar;Doris Dransch

  • The space - time cube revisited from a geovisualization perspective

    M.J. Kraak

  • Spatio - temporal maps and cartographic communication

    A. Koussoulakou;M.J. Kraak

  • Evaluating the usability of visualization methods in an exploratory geovisualization environment

    Etien L. Koua;Alan M. MacEachren;Menno-Jan Kraak

  • Web Cartography: Developments and Prospects

    Menno-Jan Kraak;Allan Brown

  • Interaction in virtual world views-linking 3D GIS with VR

    Edward Verbree;Gert van Maren;Rick Germs;Frederik W. Jansen

  • Integration and Exploitation of Sensor Data in Smart Cities through Event-Driven Applications

    Manuel Garcia Alvarez;Javier Morales;Menno-Jan Kraak

  • The role of the map in a web - GIS environment

    Menno-Jan Kraak

  • Geospatial big data and cartography: research challenges and opportunities for making maps that matter

    Anthony C. Robinson;Urška Demšar;Antoni B. Moore;Aileen Buckley

  • Building pattern recognition in topographic data: examples on collinear and curvilinear alignments

    Xiang Zhang;Tinghua Ai;Jantien Stoter;Menno-Jan Kraak

  • Settings and needs for web cartography

    M.J. Kraak

  • Cartographic animation and legends for temporal maps : exporation and or interaction

    Menno-Jan Kraak;Rob Edsall;Alan M. MacEachren

  • Geovisualization to support the exploration of large health and demographic survey data

    Etien L Koua;Etien L Koua;Menno-Jan Kraak;Menno-Jan Kraak

  • Principles of hypermaps

    Menno-Jan Kraak;Rico Van Driel

  • Visual exploration of eye movement data using the space-time-cube

    Xia Li;Arzu Çöltekin;Menno-Jan Kraak

  • Space and time

    G. Andrienko;N. Andrienko;H. Schumann;C. Tominski

  • Principles of geographic information systems : an introductory textbook : translated into Mongolian

    R.A. de By;R. Knippers;Yuxian Sun;M.C. Ellis

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan M. MacEachren
Alan M. MacEachren Pennsylvania State University
Jason Dykes
Jason Dykes City, University of London
Natalia Andrienko
Natalia Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
Gennady Andrienko
Gennady Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
Jantien Stoter
Jantien Stoter Delft University of Technology
Xiang Zhang
Xiang Zhang University of Hong Kong
Heidrun Schumann
Heidrun Schumann University of Rostock
C.J. van Westen
C.J. van Westen University of Twente
Arko Lucieer
Arko Lucieer University of Tasmania
Sara Irina Fabrikant
Sara Irina Fabrikant University of Zurich

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