The European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) workshop: Remote sensing and GIS integrated for the management of less favoured areas: 29th June–1st July, 1992, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 188 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0924-2716
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✦ Synopsis
The Fifth International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling was held amongst the historic church buildings and the starting place of the American civil war in Charleston, South Carolina. The theme of the conference was '~,dvancements in Geographical Information Processing". This conference attracted an interesting mix of approximately 300 international attendees with varied backgrounds ranging through geography, cartography, planning, computer science and other associated disciplines, the dominant groups being geography and computer science.
As could be expected from such a mix of attendees, the 70 presented papers covered a wide range of topics at various levels of complexity. For example, one paper gave a theoretical mathematical analysis of the Douglas-Peucker line simplification algorithm, whereas another paper overviewed the organizational and research issues that the formation of the European community is creating. An impression of many of the technical papers was that much of the work being done is reviewing and extending existing spatial algorithms, for example, implementing existing algorithms in parallel computing environments. Generally, the papers covered technical developments in how spatial data can be handled rather than applications.
Two parallel sessions were organized around the following subject matter: system design issues, cartographic representation, user interfaces, generalization, performance issues, spatial indexing, parallel processing, spatial queries, spatial data integration, data access methods, topological data structures, knowledge-based approaches, computational geometry and algorithms, spatial decision support systems, fuzzy data handling, data conversion, spatial analysis and models, digital terrain analysis, temporal models, object-oriented, network processing, and spatial analysis and simulation. The proceedings of the conference are published as a 2-volume set, that can be purchased from: