Advances in Spatial Data Handling: 10th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling

✍ Scribed by Nadjim Chelghoum, Karine Zeitouni, Azedine Boulmakoul (auth.), Dr. Dianne E. Richardson, Professor Dr. Peter van Oosterom (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 558
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book, entitled Advances in Spatial Data Handling, is a compendium of papers resulting from the International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH), held in Ottawa, Canada, July 9-12, 2002. The SDH conference series has been organised as one of the main activities of the International Geographical Union (IGU) since it was first started in Zurich in 1984. In the late 1990’s the IGU Commission of Geographic Information Systems was discontinued and a study group was formed to succeed it in 1997. Much like the IGU Commission, the objectives of the Study Group are to create a network of people and research centres addressing geographical information science and to facilitate exchange of information. The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, which is the most important activity of the IGU Study Group, has, throughout its 18 year history been highly regarded as one of the most important GIS conferences in the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
A Decision Tree for Multi-Layered Spatial Data....Pages 1-10
Computational and Visual Support for Geographical Knowledge Construction: Filling in the Gaps Between Exploration and Explanation ....Pages 11-25
Polygonization of Point Clusters through Cluster Boundary Extraction for Geographical Data Mining....Pages 27-40
The Impact of Filtering on Spatial Continuous Queries....Pages 41-54
An Object Model for Geologic Map Information....Pages 55-68
Indexing and Browsing Digital Maps with Intelligent Thumbnails....Pages 69-80
Modelling and Manipulating Multiple Representations of Spatial Data....Pages 81-93
Terrain Modelling Based on Contours and Slopes....Pages 95-107
Siting Observers on Terrain....Pages 109-120
An Agent-Based Framework for Polygonal Subdivision Generalisation....Pages 121-135
Template Matching in Support of Generalisation of Rural Buildings....Pages 137-151
Minimising Positional Errors in Line Simplification Using Adaptive Tolerance Values....Pages 153-166
A New Merging Process for Data Integration Based on the Discrete Fréchet Distance....Pages 167-181
Above-Ground Biomass Estimation of Successional and Mature Forests Using TM Images in the Amazon Basin....Pages 183-196
Grid Computing for Real Time Distributed Collaborative Geoprocessing....Pages 197-208
The Balance Between Geometry and Topology....Pages 209-224
STOQL: An ODMG-Based Spatio-Temporal Object Model and Query Language....Pages 225-237
A Semantics for Version Queries In GIS Databases....Pages 239-253
A Differential Spatio-temporal Model: Primitives and Operators....Pages 255-268
A QTM-based Algorithm for Generation of the Voronoi Diagram on a Sphere....Pages 269-283
The Dimensional Model: A Framework to Distinguish Spatial Relationships....Pages 285-298
A Quantitative Description of Spatial Configurations....Pages 299-311
Implementing Topological Predicates for Complex Regions....Pages 313-328
Route Specifications with a Linear Dual Graph....Pages 329-338
Projecting a Regular Grid onto a Sphere or Ellipsoid....Pages 339-350
Creating Spatial Information: Commissioning the UK Land Cover Map 2000....Pages 351-362
A Methodology for Updating Geographic Databases using Map Versions....Pages 363-376
Revealing Uncertainty in Maps of Glacial Lake Algonquin....Pages 377-389
Spatio-Temporal Methods to Reduce Data Uncertainty in Restricted Movement on a Road Network....Pages 391-402
Quantifying Uncertainty of Digital Elevation Models Derived from Topographic Maps....Pages 403-418
Detecting Building Alignments for Generalisation Purposes....Pages 419-432
Temporal GIS and Statistical Modelling of Personal Lifelines....Pages 433-449
Urban Simulation Using Neural Networks and Cellular Automata for Land Use Planning....Pages 451-464
Creation of the Anamorphoses-Based 3D-Pyramidal Block-Diagrams....Pages 465-473
Schematic Networks: An Algorithm and its Implementation....Pages 475-486
Developing Lightweight, Data-Driven Exploratory Geo-Visualization Tools for the Web....Pages 487-500
GAP-Tree Extensions Based on Skeletons....Pages 501-513
Improving Automated Generalisation for On-Demand Web Mapping by Multiscale Databases....Pages 515-531
Map Samples to Help GI Users Specify their Needs....Pages 533-545
Representation of Map Objects with Semi-Structured Data Models....Pages 547-562

✦ Subjects

Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Geography (general); Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning