Progress in Spatial Data Handling 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling - Riedl, Andreas; Kainz, Wolfgang; Elmes, Gregory A.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
Plenary of Submitted Papers -- The Devil is still in the Data: Persistent Spatial Data Handling Challenges in Grassroots GIS -- Physical vs. Web Space - Similarities and Differences -- Spatial Cognition -- Utilization of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning in Geographic Information Systems -- Identification of the Initial Entity in Granular Route Directions -- Data Models -- Modeling and Engineering Algorithms for Mobile Data -- Database Model and Algebra for Complex and Heterogeneous Spatial Entities -- QACHE: Query Caching in Location-Based Services -- A Voronoi-Based Map Algebra -- Modeling Geometric Rules in Object Based Models: An XML / GML Approach -- Data Mining -- Exploring Geographical Data with Spatio-Visual Data Mining -- Continuous Wavelet Transformations for Hyperspectral Feature Detection -- Measuring Linear Complexity with Wavelets -- Expert Knowledge and Embedded Knowledge: Or Why Long Rambling Class Descriptions are Useful -- Data Retrieval -- Preference Based Retrieval of Information Elements -- Spatiotemporal Event Detection and Analysis over Multiple Granularities -- Reduced Data Model for Storing and Retrieving Geographic Data -- Filling the Gaps in Keyword-Based Query Expansion for Geodata Retrieval -- Data Quality -- Using Metadata to Link Uncertainty and Data Quality Assessments -- An Evaluation Method for Determining Map-Quality -- Efficient Evaluation Techniques for Topological Predicates on Complex Regions -- Implementation of a Prototype Toolbox for Communicating Spatial Data Quality and Uncertainty Using a Wildfire Risk Example -- Integration and Fusion -- Changes in Topological Relations when Splitting and Merging Regions -- Integrating 2D Topographic Vector Data with a Digital Terrain Model - a Consistent and Semantically Correct Approach -- A Hierarchical Approach to the Line-Line Topological Relations -- Coastline Matching Process Based on the Discrete Fréchet Distance -- Semantics and Ontologies -- Characterizing Land Cover Structure with Semantic Variograms -- Semantic Similarity Measures within the Semantic Framework of the Universal Ontology of Geographical Space -- A Quantitative Similarity Measure for Maps -- A Semantic-based Approach to the Representation of Network-Constrained Trajectory Data -- Towards an Ontologically-driven GIS to Characterize Spatial Data Uncertainty -- 2D-Visualization -- Structuring Kinetic Maps -- Advanced Operations for Maps in Spatial Databases -- A Tangible Augmented Reality Interface to Tiled Street Maps and its Usability Testing -- A Linear Programming Approach to Rectangular Cartograms -- 3D-Visualization -- Automated Construction of Urban Terrain Models -- A Flexible, Extensible Object Oriented Real-time Near Photorealistic Visualization System: The System Framework Design -- A Tetrahedronized Irregular Network Based DBMS Approach for 3D Topographic Data Modeling -- 3D Analysis with High-Level Primitives: A Crystallographic Approach -- Generalization -- The Hierarchical Watershed Partitioning and Data Simplification of River Network -- Grid Typification -- Skeleton Based Contour Line Generalization -- Conflict Identification and Representation for Roads Based on a Skeleton -- The' stroke' Concept in Geographic Network Generalization and Analysis -- Uncertainty -- An Integrated Cloud Model for Measurement Errors and Fuzziness -- The Influence of Uncertainty Visualization on Decision Making: An Empirical Evaluation -- Modeling Uncertainty in Knowledge Discovery for Classifying Geographic Entities with Fuzzy Boundaries -- Capturing and Representing Conceptualization Uncertainty Interactively using Object-Fields -- Elevation Modeling -- From Point Cloud to Grid DEM: A Scalable Approach -- Use of Plan Curvature Variations for the Identification of Ridges and Channels on DEM -- An Evaluation of Spatial Interpolation Accuracy of Elevation Data -- Working with Elevation -- I/O-Efficient Hierarchical Watershed Decomposition of Grid Terrain Models -- Tradeoffs when Multiple Observer Siting on Large Terrain Cells -- Scale-Dependent Definitions of Gradient and Aspect and their Computation -- Spatial Modeling -- Development Density-Based Optimization Modeling of Sustainable Land Use Patterns -- Building an Integrated Cadastral Fabric for Higher Resolution Socioeconomic Spatial Data Analysis -- Analysis of Cross Country Trafficability.
Keywords: Environmental sciences; Geographical information systems; Earth sciences; Regional planning; Urban planning; Computers; Environmental Science and Engineering; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Earth Sciences, general; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Information Systems and Communication Service