ISPRS-Annals ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Annals ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9050 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprs-annals-V-4-2020-163-2020 OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR AUGMENTED REALITY SITUATED GEOGRAPHICAL VISUALIZATION Lobo M. J. 1 Christophe S. 1 LASTIG, Université Gustave Eiffel, ENSG, IGN, F-94160 Saint-Mandé, France 03 08 2020 V-4-2020 163 170 Copyright: © 2020 M. J. Lobo 2020 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-annals.copernicus.org/articles/V-4-2020/163/2020/isprs-annals-V-4-2020-163-2020.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-annals.copernicus.org/articles/V-4-2020/163/2020/isprs-annals-V-4-2020-163-2020.pdf

Augmented reality (AR) enables to display situated geographical visualizations, i.e visualizations that use virtual elements that are displayed in a geographical location. The place where the data is displayed complements the visualization. Many applications that take advantage of AR and situated visualizations exist, but they differ in the visualizations they present, their relationship to the geographic locations and goals. To better understand why and how AR based situated geovisualization is used, we review 45 papers coming from Human Computer Interaction, Visualization and Geographical Information Science venues that present such applications. Inspired by existing classifications, we characterize these papers according to the data they visualize and the geographical distance between the visualization and the data the visualization represents. This analysis reveals existing opportunities for situated geovisualization applications using AR.