Advances in Spatial Data Handling

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Data Mining

   1. A Decision Tree for Multi-Layered Spatial Data

      • Nadjim Chelghoum, Karine Zeitouni, Azedine Boulmakoul

      Pages 1-10

   2. Computational and Visual Support for Geographical Knowledge Construction: Filling in the Gaps Between Exploration and Explanation

      • Mark Gahegan, Boyan Brodaric

      Pages 11-25

   3. Polygonization of Point Clusters through Cluster Boundary Extraction for Geographical Data Mining

      • Ickjai Lee, Vladimir Estivill-Castro

      Pages 27-40

3. Databases and Interoperability

   1. The Impact of Filtering on Spatial Continuous Queries

      • Thomas Brinkhoff

      Pages 41-54

   2. An Object Model for Geologic Map Information

      • Boyan Brodaric, Jordan Hastings

      Pages 55-68

   3. Indexing and Browsing Digital Maps with Intelligent Thumbnails

      • Christoph Schlieder, Thomas Vögele

      Pages 69-80

   4. Modelling and Manipulating Multiple Representations of Spatial Data

      • Christelle Vangenot, Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra

      Pages 81-93

4. DEM, Terrain and Landscape Modelling

   1. Terrain Modelling Based on Contours and Slopes

      • Christopher Gold, Maciej Dakowicz

      Pages 95-107

   2. Siting Observers on Terrain

      • Wm Randolph Franklin

      Pages 109-120

5. Generalisation

   1. An Agent-Based Framework for Polygonal Subdivision Generalisation

      • Martin Galanda, Robert Weibel

      Pages 121-135

   2. Template Matching in Support of Generalisation of Rural Buildings

      • Desmond Rainsford, William Mackaness

      Pages 137-151

   3. Minimising Positional Errors in Line Simplification Using Adaptive Tolerance Values

      • Nadia Shahriari, Vincent Tao

      Pages 153-166

6. Integration and Fusion

   1. A New Merging Process for Data Integration Based on the Discrete Fréchet Distance

      • Thomas Devogele

      Pages 167-181

   2. Above-Ground Biomass Estimation of Successional and Mature Forests Using TM Images in the Amazon Basin

      • Dengsheng Lu, Paul Mausel, Eduardo Brondizio, Emilio Moran

      Pages 183-196

   3. Grid Computing for Real Time Distributed Collaborative Geoprocessing

      • Yi Shi, Ashton Shortridge, Jon Bartholic

      Pages 197-208

   4. The Balance Between Geometry and Topology

      • Peter van Oosterom, Jantien Stoter, Wilko Quak, Sisi Zlatanova

      Pages 209-224

7. Spatial and Temporal Data Modelling and Analysis

   1. STOQL: An ODMG-Based Spatio-Temporal Object Model and Query Language

      • Bo Huang, Christophe Claramunt

      Pages 225-237

   2. A Semantics for Version Queries In GIS Databases

      • Hanna Kemppainen

      Pages 239-253

   3. A Differential Spatio-temporal Model: Primitives and Operators

      • Giorgos Mountrakis, Peggy Agouris, Anthony Stefanidis

      Pages 255-268

This book, entitled Advances in Spatial Data Handling, is a compendium of papers resulting from the International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH), held in Ottawa, Canada, July 9-12, 2002. The SDH conference series has been organised as one of the main activities of the International Geographical Union (IGU) since it was first started in Zurich in 1984. In the late 1990’s the IGU Commission of Geographic Information Systems was discontinued and a study group was formed to succeed it in 1997. Much like the IGU Commission, the objectives of the Study Group are to create a network of people and research centres addressing geographical information science and to facilitate exchange of information. The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, which is the most important activity of the IGU Study Group, has, throughout its 18 year history been highly regarded as one of the most important GIS conferences in the world.

• GIS
• Geographic Information Systems
• Geography
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Geomatics
• Landscape Modelling
• Remote Sensing
• database
• geographic data
• integration
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, Canada

  Dianne E. Richardson

• Department of Geodesy, Section GIS-Technology, Delft University of Technology Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, The Netherlands

  Peter Oosterom

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