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Space-Time Cube

The space-time cube is a framework from time geography for representing and analyzing phenomena that move and change over both space and time. Two horizontal axes carry geographic location and a vertical axis carries time, so each observation becomes a point in a three-dimensional x–y–t volume and a moving object traces a continuous 'space-time path' through the cube. Introduced conceptually by Torsten Hägerstrand in 1970 and turned into a practical analytic and cartographic tool by Menno-Jan Kraak, it underpins modern spatiotemporal hot-spot and trajectory analysis.

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Space-Time Cube for Spatiotemporal Analysis and Visualization
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / human-geography
  • Hägerstrand, T. (1970). What about people in regional science? Papers of the Regional Science Association, 24(1), 6–21. · DOI 10.1007/BF01936872
  • Kraak, M.-J., & Ormeling, F. J. (2010). Cartography: Visualization of Geospatial Data (3rd ed.). Prentice Hall. · ISBN 9780273722793
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Same method familyAccessibility Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Used in the same domainGravity Model of Migrationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoSpace-Time Hot Spot Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoSpace-Time Kernel Density Estimationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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