Enhanced Perception

Basic charts don't scale. We empower people to more easily understand complex situations by designing profoundly visual information systems. Here are some examples from our blog below.

Surficial geologic map and a partial legend with with many of near-identical polygon colors. | Image: USGS

Uncharted Earns Another Spot on the Leaderboard in AI Competition by DARPA and USGS

Uncharted's approaches for identifying a variety of map features win top rankings in follow-on critical minerals challenge.

Michael Crouch
December 19, 2022

When last we checked on the joint DARPA and USGS AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition, we were thrilled to discover that we won the Map Georeferencing challenge. We’re honored to find ourselves on the leaderboard once again for the second challenge, Map Feature Extraction.

Left, a 1905 map of superficial deposits in Pocahontas County, IA. Right, its georeferenced extents in northern IA.

Uncharted Wins First Place in AI Competition for Critical Mineral Assessment

Using machine learning and computer vision to automatically extract location data from scanned historical maps.

Michael Crouch
November 21, 2022

Within its vast and varied landmass, the U.S. holds a wealth of mineral resources critical to national defense and the impending clean energy transition. Finding these resources, though, is no simple task.

Left, an indigenous sculpture curated with modern art. Center, a treemap of oil exporting countries. Right, a connected scatterplot of distribution over time.

Join Uncharted at IEEE VIS 2022

We'll be discussing emerging NLP for text summarization, integration of visualization research and products, and more.

Michael Crouch
October 13, 2022

VIS 2022 is back in person this year, and so is Uncharted!

Movements of home invasion suspects plotted in 3D along a time axis above a geographic map.

GeoTime Acquired by PenLink

Uncharted is proud and excited to see the next stages in the growth of GeoTime.

David Jonker
September 22, 2022

Nearly 20 years ago, Uncharted began research and development on what would become GeoTime. In the novel use of 3D visualization we saw a breakthrough technology for portraying events and movement across space and time.

Historical cartoon with speech bubbles coming from two talking heads

Visualizing with Text

An extension to the visualization design space

Michael Crouch
October 29, 2020

In his new book, Richard Brath, Managing Partner, Commercial Innovations, presents a variety of text format and layout techniques for “richer, more expressive visualizations”