Heterogenous spatial data. Fusion, modeling, and analysis for GIS

List of Figures......Page 13
List of Tables......Page 19
Preface......Page 21
Acknowledgments......Page 25
 Geospatial Data: Acquisition and Properties......Page 27
 Spatio-temporal Data Fusion......Page 33
  Direct Georeferencing......Page 36
  Target and Feature-based Registration......Page 37
  Low-level Feature Matching......Page 39
  Examples:......Page 40
 Harmonize Support: Interpolation Methods......Page 42
  Deterministic Methods......Page 43
  Stochastic Methods......Page 44
 Satellite Time Series Analysis......Page 47
  Improving Spatial and Temporal Resolution......Page 49
  Vegetation Monitoring......Page 51
 Spatio-temporal Data Access Methods......Page 52
 Discussion: Sensors, Software, and Practical Issues......Page 55
Spatial and Environmental Data Approximation......Page 59
 Data Approximation......Page 60
 Spline Representations and Approximations......Page 63
  Parameterization......Page 64
  Tensor Product Splines......Page 65
  Locally Refined Splines......Page 67
  Spline Approximations......Page 70
  Adapting to Boundaries and Features......Page 75
  Moving Least-squares Surfaces......Page 77
  Implicit Approximation with Radial Basis Functions......Page 78
  Computational Cost......Page 80
 3D Data Analysis......Page 83
  Curvature Evaluation......Page 84
  Primitive and Curvature-based Segmentation......Page 86
  3D Feature Descriptors......Page 87
  Critical Point-oriented Characterization......Page 91
  Topological Persistence......Page 95
  Contour-based Characterization......Page 97
  Morse and Morse-Smale Complexes and Surface Networks......Page 99
  Contour Trees and Reeb Graphs......Page 100
 Surface Approximation with LR B-splines......Page 105
 Approximation and Analysis of Rainfall Data......Page 111
 Analysis of Topological Changes in GIS Data......Page 118
Conclusions......Page 125
Bibliography......Page 127
Authors' Biographies......Page 155