Advances in Spatial Data Handling: Geospatial Dynamics, Geosimulation and Exploratory Visualization

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Topological and Geometric Data Handling for Time-Dependent Geo-Objects Realized in DB4GeO....Pages 1-13
Segmenting Trajectories by Movement States....Pages 15-25
The Case for 3D Visualization in DEM Assessment....Pages 27-43
A Hybrid Shortest Path Algorithm for Intra-Regional Queries on Hierarchical Networks....Pages 45-59
A Formalization of Topological Relations Between Simple Spatial Objects....Pages 61-75
A Time-Driven Mobile Location Aware Service for Distributing Campus Information....Pages 77-89
Evaluating the Cognitive Adequacy of the DLine-Region Calculus....Pages 91-106
Integrating Change Vector Analysis, Post-Classification Comparison, and Object-Oriented Image Analysis for Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection Using RADARSAT-2 Polarimetric SAR Images....Pages 107-123
Modifying Areal Interpolation Techniques for Analysis of Data on Food Assistance Benefits....Pages 125-141
Representing Terrain with Mathematical Operators....Pages 143-155
A New Algorithm for 3D Isovists....Pages 157-173
A Modeling Approach for the Extraction of Semantic Information from a Maritime Corpus....Pages 175-191
Topological Adjustment of Polygonal Data....Pages 193-208
Automatic Map Retrieval and Map Interpretation in the Internet....Pages 209-221