Advancing Geoinformation Science for a Changing World

✍ Scribed by Mahdi Hashemi, AliAsghar Alesheikh (auth.), Stan Geertman, Wolfgang Reinhardt, Fred Toppen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 545
• Series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book comprises innovative research presented at the 14th Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE), held in 2011 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The scientific papers cover a large variety of fundamental research topics as well as applied research in Geoinformation Science including measuring spatiotemporal phenomena, quality and semantics, spatiotemporal analysis, modeling and decision support as well as spatial information infrastructures. The book is aimed at researchers, practitioners and students who work in various fields and disciplines related to Geoinformation Science and technology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Tehran’s Historical Earthquakes Trends....Pages 3-20
Damage Assessment from Storm Surge to Coastal Cities: Lessons from the Miami Area....Pages 21-43
Mining Sequential Patterns from MODIS Time Series for Cultivated Area Mapping....Pages 45-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
A Comparison of the Street Networks of Navteq and OSM in Germany....Pages 65-84
Extension of Spatial Correlation Analysis to Road Network Spaces....Pages 85-99
GIS-based Map-matching: Development and Demonstration of a Postprocessing Map-matching Algorithm for Transportation Research....Pages 101-120
Modeling Micro-Movement Variability in Mobility Studies....Pages 121-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
The SID Creator: A Visual Approach for Integrating Sensors with the Sensor Web....Pages 143-162
An OGC compliant Sensor Observation Service for mobile sensors....Pages 163-184
Empirical Study of Sensor Observation Services Server Instances....Pages 185-209
Qualitative Spatio-temporal Reasoning from Mobile Sensor Data using Qualitative Trigonometry....Pages 211-225
Connecting R to the Sensor Web....Pages 227-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
LandSpaCES: A Spatial Expert System for Land Consolidation....Pages 249-274
Towards a “typification” of the Pedestrian Surrounding Space: Analysis of the Isovist Using Digital processing Method....Pages 275-292
Modelling Umwelten....Pages 293-316
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Detecting Symmetries in Building Footprints by String Matching....Pages 319-336
Simultaneous & topologically-safe line simplification for a variable-scale planar partition....Pages 337-358
Validating a 3D topological structure of a 3D space partition....Pages 359-378
Querying Vague Spatial Information in Geographic Data Warehouses....Pages 379-397
A Scalable Approach for Generalization of Land Cover Data....Pages 399-420
Front Matter....Pages 421-421
GEOSS Service Factory: Assisted Publication of Geospatial Content....Pages 423-442
Analysis of Quantitative Profiles of GI Education: towards an Analytical Basis for EduMapping....Pages 443-459
Geotagging Aided by Topic Detection with Wikipedia....Pages 461-477
Specifications for User Generated Spatial Content....Pages 479-495
An Empirical Study on Relevant Aspects for Sketch Map Alignment....Pages 497-518
Topologically Consistent Selective Progressive Transmission....Pages 519-538
Erratum to: Advancing Geoinformation Science for a Changing World....Pages E1-E1

✦ Subjects

Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Computer Applications in Earth Sciences