Developments in Spatial Data Handling

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Plenary of Submitted Papers

   1. About Invalid, Valid and Clean Polygons

      • Peter van Oosterom, Wilko Quak, Theo Tijssen

      Pages 1-16

   2. 3D Geographic Visualization: The Marine GIS

      • Chris Gold, Michael Chau, Marcin Dzieszko, Rafel Goralski

      Pages 17-28

   3. Local Knowledge Doesn’t Grow on Trees: Community-Integrated Geographic Information Systems and Rural Community Self-Definition

      • Gregory Elmes, Michael Dougherty, Hallie Challig, Wilbert Karigomba, Brent McCusker, Daniel Weiner

      Pages 29-39

3. Web GIS

   1. A Flexible Competitive Neural Network for Eliciting User’s Preferences in Web Urban Spaces

      • Yanwu Yang, Christophe Claramunt

      Pages 41-57

   2. Combining Heterogeneous Spatial Data From Distributed Sources

      • M. Howard Williams, Omar Dreza

      Pages 59-70

   3. Security for GIS N-tier Architecture

      • Michael Govorov, Youry Khmelevsky, Vasiliy Ustimenko, Alexei Khorev

      Pages 71-83

   4. Progressive Transmission of Vector Data Based on Changes Accumulation Model

      • Tinghua Ai, Zhilin Li, Yaolin Liu

      Pages 85-96

4. Elevation modelling

   1. An Efficient Natural Neighbour Interpolation Algorithm for Geoscientific Modelling

      • Hugo Ledoux, Christopher Gold

      Pages 97-108

   2. Evaluating Methods for Interpolating Continuous Surfaces from Irregular Data: a Case Study

      • M. Hugentobler, R.S. Purves, B. Schneider

      Pages 109-124

   3. Contour Smoothing Based on Weighted Smoothing Splines

      • Leonor Maria, Oliveira Malva

      Pages 125-136

   4. Flooding Triangulated Terrain

      • Yuanxin Liu, Jack Snoeyink

      Pages 137-148

5. Vagueness and Interpolation

   1. Vague Topological Predicates for Crisp Regions through Metric Refinements

      • Markus Schneider

      Pages 149-162

   2. Fuzzy Modeling of Sparse Data

      • Angelo Marcello Anile, Salvatore Spinella

      Pages 163-172

   3. Handling Spatial Data Uncertainty Using a Fuzzy Geostatistical Approach for Modelling Methane Emissions at the Island of Java

      • Alfred Stein, Mamta Verma

      Pages 173-187

6. Temporal

   1. A Visualization Environment for the Space-Time-Cube

      • Menno-Jan Kraak, Alexandra Koussoulakou

      Pages 189-200

   2. Finding REMO — Detecting Relative Motion Patterns in Geospatial Lifelines

      • Patrick Laube, Marc van Kreveld, Stephan Imfeld

      Pages 201-215

7. Indexing

   1. Spatial Hoarding: A Hoarding Strategy for Location-Dependent Systems

      • Karim Zerioh, Omar El Beqqali, Robert Laurini

      Pages 217-230

   2. Distributed Ranking Methods for Geographic Information Retrieval

      • Marc van Kreveld, Iris Reinbacher, Avi Arampatzis, Roelof van Zwol

      Pages 231-243

   3. Representing Topological Relationships between Complex Regions by F-Histograms

      • Lukasz Wawrzyniak, Pascal Matsakis, Dennis Nikitenko

      Pages 245-257

The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH) commenced in 1984, in Zurich, Switzerland, organized by the International Geographical Union Commission on Geographical Data Sensing and Processing which was later succeed by the Commission on Geographic Information Systems, Study Group on Geographical Information Science and then the Commission on Geographical Information Science (http://www. hku. hk/cupem/igugisc/). Previous symposia have been held at the following locations: 1st - Zurich, 1984 6th - Edinburgh, 1994 2nd - Seattle, 1986 7th - Delft, 1996 3rd - Sydney, 1988 8th - Vancouver, 1998 4th - Zurich, 1990 9th - Beijing, 2000 5th - Charleston, 1992 10th - Ottawa, 2002 th This book is the proceedings of the 11 International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling. The conference was held in Leicester, United rd th Kingdom, on August 23 to 25 2004, as a satellite meeting to the Congress of the International Geographical Union in Glasgow. The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling is a refereed conference. All the papers in this book were submitted as full papers and reviewed by at least two members of the Programme Committee. 83 papers in all were submitted and among the 50 included here, all are considered above average by the reviewers. The papers cover the span of Geographical Information Science topics, which have always been the concern of the conference. Topics from uncertainty (error, vagueness, and ontology and semantics) to web issues, digital elevation models and urban infrastructure.

• Cartography
• GIS
• Geoinformatics
• Geoinformation
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Geomatics
• ecosystem
• geographic data
• geospatial
• remote sensing
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Department of Informations Science, City University, London, UK

  Peter F. Fisher

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