Headway in Spatial Data Handling: 13th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling

✍ Scribed by Xin Wang, Pascal Matsakis, Lana Trick, Blair Nonnecke (auth.), Anne Ruas, Christopher Gold (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 645
• Series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Geographic information is a key element for our modern society. Put s- ply, it is information whose spatial (and often temporal) location is fun- mental to its value, and this distinguishes it from many other types of data, and analysis. For sustainable development, climate change or more simply resource sharing and economic development, this information helps to - cilitate human activities and to foresee the impact of these activities in space as well as, inversely, the impact of space on our lives. The Inter- tional Symposium on Spatial Data Handing (SDH) is a primary research forum where questions related to spatial and temporal modelling and analysis, data integration, visual representation or semantics are raised. The first symposium commenced in 1984 in Zurich and has since been organised every two years under the umbrella of the International Geographical Union Commission on Geographical Information Science (http://www. igugis. org). Over the last 28 years, the Symposium has been held in: st 1 - Zürich, 1984 nd 2 - Seattle, 1986 rd 3 - Sydney, 1988 th 4 - Zurich, 1990 th 5 - Charleston, 1992 th 6 - Edinburgh, 1994 th 7 - Delft, 1996 th 8 - Vancouver, 1998 th 9 - Beijing, 2000 th 10 - Ottawa, 2002 th 11 - Leicester, 2004 th 12 - Vienna, 2006 th This book is the proceedings of the 13 International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
A Study on how Humans Describe Relative Positions of Image Objects....Pages 1-18
Perceptual Sketch Interpretation....Pages 19-38
The Shape Cognition and Query Supported by Fourier Transform....Pages 39-54
Classification of Landslide Susceptibility in the Development of Early Warning Systems....Pages 55-75
Clusters in Aggregated Health Data....Pages 77-90
Spatial Simulation of Agricultural Practices using a Robust Extension of Randomized Classification Tree Algorithms....Pages 91-108
Impact of a Change of Support on the Assessment of Biodiversity with Shannon Entropy....Pages 109-131
Implicit Spatial Information Extraction from Remote Sensing Images....Pages 133-146
The Application of the Concept of Indicative Neighbourhood on Landsat ETM + Images and Orthophotos Using Circular and Annulus Kernels....Pages 147-162
Sensitivity of the C-band SRTM DEM Vertical Accuracy to Terrain Characteristics and Spatial Resolution....Pages 163-176
Support Vector Machines for Spatiotemporal Analysis in Geosensor Networks....Pages 177-195
Toward a Method to Generally Describe Physical Spatial Processes....Pages 197-216
A Data Model for Multi-scale Topographical Data....Pages 217-232
An Interoperable Web Service Architecture to Provide Base Maps Empowered by Automated Generalisation....Pages 233-254
Combining Three Multi-agent Based Generalisation Models: AGENT, CartACom and GAEL....Pages 255-275
Implementation of Building Reconstruction Algorithm Using Real World LIDAR Data....Pages 277-296
A New Approach for Mountain Areas Cartography....Pages 297-313
Slope Accuracy and Path Planning on Compressed Terrain....Pages 315-333
Processing 3D Geo-Information for Augmenting Georeferenced and Oriented Photographs with Text Labels....Pages 335-349
Interactive Geovisualization and Geometric Modelling of 3D Data - A Case Study from the Åknes Rockslide Site, Norway....Pages 351-365
FieldGML: An Alternative Representation For Fields....Pages 367-384
Marine GIS: Progress in 3D Visualization for Dynamic GIS....Pages 385-400
The IGN-E Case: Integrating Through a Hidden Ontology....Pages 401-416
All Roads Lead to Rome – Geospatial Modeling of Hungarian Street Names with Destination Reference....Pages 417-435
Where is the Terraced House? On the Use of Ontologies for Recognition of Urban Concepts in Cartographic Databases....Pages 437-448
Moving from Pixels to Parcels: the Use of Possibility Theory to Explore the Uncertainty Associated object Oriented Remote Sensing....Pages 449-466
Data Matching – a Matter of Belief....Pages 467-485
Deriving Topological Relationships Between Simple Regions with Holes....Pages 487-500
Spatial Rules Generate Urban Patterns: Emergence of the Small-World Network....Pages 501-519
Conceptual Neighborhoods of Topological Relations Between Lines....Pages 521-531
A Primer of Picture-Aided Navigation in Mobile Systems....Pages 533-555
Road Network Model for Vehicle Navigation using Traffic Direction Approach....Pages 557-574
Clustering Algorithm for Network Constraint Trajectories....Pages 575-593
Back Matter....Pages 595-611
....Pages 613-629

✦ Subjects

Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science