# Quantifying the Uncertainty of Contour Maps

@article{Bolin2015QuantifyingTU,
title={Quantifying the Uncertainty of Contour Maps},
author={David Bolin and Finn Lindgren},
journal={Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics},
year={2015},
volume={26},
pages={513 - 524}
}
• Published 7 July 2015
• Computer Science
• Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
ABSTRACT Contour maps are widely used to display estimates of spatial fields. Instead of showing the estimated field, a contour map only shows a fixed number of contour lines for different levels. However, despite the ubiquitous use of these maps, the uncertainty associated with them has been given a surprisingly small amount of attention. We derive measures of the statistical uncertainty, or quality, of contour maps, and use these to decide an appropriate number of contour lines, which relates…
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