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Advances in Spatial Data Handling

Geospatial Dynamics, Geosimulation and Exploratory Visualization

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Part of the book series: Advances in Geographic Information Science (AGIS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Topological and Geometric Data Handling for Time-Dependent Geo-Objects Realized in DB4GeO

    • Martin Breunig, Edgar Butwilowski, Paul Vincent Kuper, Daria Golovko, Andreas Thomsen
    Pages 1-13
  3. Segmenting Trajectories by Movement States

    • Maike Buchin, Helmut Kruckenberg, Andrea Kölzsch
    Pages 15-25
  4. The Case for 3D Visualization in DEM Assessment

    • Michael B. Gousie
    Pages 27-43
  5. A Formalization of Topological Relations Between Simple Spatial Objects

    • Gutemberg Guerra- Filho, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Pedro J. de Rezende
    Pages 61-75
  6. Evaluating the Cognitive Adequacy of the DLine-Region Calculus

    • Alexander Klippel, Jinlong Yang, Rui Li, Jan Oliver Wallgrün
    Pages 91-106
  7. Representing Terrain with Mathematical Operators

    • Christopher Stuetzle, W. Randolph Franklin
    Pages 143-155
  8. A New Algorithm for 3D Isovists

    • Wassim Suleiman, Thierry Joliveau, Eric Favier
    Pages 157-173
  9. A Modeling Approach for the Extraction of Semantic Information from a Maritime Corpus

    • Dieudonné Tsatcha, Eric Saux, Christophe Claramunt
    Pages 175-191
  10. Topological Adjustment of Polygonal Data

    • Jan Oliver Wallgrün
    Pages 193-208
  11. Automatic Map Retrieval and Map Interpretation in the Internet

    • Volker Walter, Fen Luo, Dieter Fritsch
    Pages 209-221

About this book

This volume is based on the reviewed and edited proceedings of the International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling 2012, held in Bonn. The 15th SDH brought together scholars and professionals from the international GIScience community to present the latest research achievements and to share experiences in Geospatial dynamics, geosimulation and exploratory visualization.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Geography, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

    Sabine Timpf

  • University of Zurich - Irchel, Department of Geography, Geographic Information Science, Zürich, Switzerland

    Patrick Laube

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