A Case Study for Hypermedia Cartography: Radial Growth in Trembling Aspen at Waterton Lakes National Park

Hypermedia software developments afford new opportunities for cartographic visualization. There is a burgeoning inquiry into effective techniques and formats within the hypermedia realm Users may now work with visualizations proactively, initiate data queries and steer the presentation in a manner consistent with the associative power of the human thought Hypermedia formats provide advantages of both the distillation of the data and the portrayal of the authored relationships between data chunks. This research describes the creation and implementation of one such visualization. Forty years of radial growth in trembling aspen tree populations from Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada are depicted in macro and micro scales. Meta-information about the display and its contents is provided through hyperhnks to graphics, text, embedded animation, and photos.