Full Description
Providing a privileged view of current activity in geoinformatics and a preview of what could be the hot research topics a few years on, this book includes recent research results on spatial databases, spatial ontologies, geostatistics and spatial statistics, spatial analysis, and innovative applications of geotechnologies among other topics.
Contents
Computational Geometry and Visualization.- Consistent Handling of Linear Features in Polyline Simplification.- Cartographical Data Treatment Analysis for Real Time Three-Dimensional Terrain Visualization.- A More Efficient Method for Map Overlay in Terralib.- Spatial Databases.- Exploiting Type and Space in a Main Memory Query Engine.- Approximate Query Processing in Spatial Databases Using Raster Signatures.- A Rule-Based Optimizer for Spatial Join Algorithms.- Spatial Query Broker in a Grid Environment.- TerraHS: Integration of Functional Programming and Spatial Databases for GIS Application Development.- Spatial Ontologies and Interoperability.- An Algorithm and Implementation for GeoOntologies Alignment.- Querying a Geographic Database using an Ontology-Based Methodology.- A Method for Defining Semantic Similarities between GML Schemas.- Interoperability among Heterogeneous Geographic Objects.- Distributed GIS / GIS and the Internet.- Web Service for Cooperation in Biodiversity Modeling.- Evaluation of OGC Web Services for Local Spatial Data Infrastructures and for the Development of Clients for Geographic Information Systems.- Towards Gazetteer Integration through an Instance-based Thesauri Mapping Approach.- WS-GIS: Towards a SOA-Based SDI Federation.- Geostatistics, Spatial Statistics and Spatial Analysis.- Electricity Consumption as a Predictor of Household Income: a Spatial Statistics Approach.- Shiryaev-Roberts Method to Detect Space-Time Emerging Clusters.- Testing association between origin-destination spatial locations.- Applications.- GIS Development for Energy Distribution Network Restoration with an Integrated Interface.
