Geospatial Free and Open Source Software in the 21st Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Geoprocessing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A Service-Oriented Framework for Real-Time and Distributed Geoprocessing

      • Bastian Schaeffer, Bastian Baranski, Theodor Foerster, Johannes Brauner

      Pages 3-20

   3. GeOxygene: Built on Top of the Expertise of the French NMA to Host and Share Advanced GI Science Research Results

      • Bénédicte Bucher, Mickaël Brasebin, Elodie Buard, Eric Grosso, Sébastien Mustière, Julien Perret

      Pages 21-33

   4. Use of Open-Source GIS for the Pre-processing of Distributed Hydrological Models

      • Flora Branger, Sonja Jankowfsky, Olivier Vannier, Pierre Viallet, Samuel Debionne, Isabelle Braud

      Pages 35-48

   5. A Platform for Spatial Data Labeling in an Urban Context

      • Julien Lesbegueries, Nicolas Lachiche, Agnès Braud, Grzegorz Skupinski, Anne Puissant, Julien Perret

      Pages 49-61

   6. TAnaTo2: A Tool to Evaluate the Impact of Natural and Anthropogenic Artefacts with a TIN-Based Model

      • Erwan Bocher, Jean-Yves Martin

      Pages 63-85

3. Remote Sensing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. The E-Foto Project and the Research to Implement a GNU/GPL Open source Educational Digital Photogrammetric Workstation

      • Guilherme Lucio Abelha Mota, Jorge Luís Nunes e Silva Brito, João Araújo Ribeiro, Orlando Bernardo Filho, Marcelo Teixeira Silveira, Rafael Alves de Aguiar et al.

      Pages 89-106

   3. An Overview on Interferometric SAR Software and a Comparison Between DORIS and SARSCAPE Packages

      • Elisabeth Simonetto, Jean-Michel Follin

      Pages 107-122

   4. An Object-Oriented Approach to Automatic Classification of Panchromatic Aerial Photographs with GRASS GIS and R

      • Eduardo Corbelle Rico, Rafael Crecente Maseda

      Pages 123-137

4. Cartography and Standards

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Sensor Web Enablement Standards for Groundwater Monitoring

      • Tiana Randrianarivelo, Pierre Lagarde, Vincent Heurteaux

      Pages 141-156

   3. Towards an Automated Label Placement Service

      • Olivier Ertz, Maxence Laurent, Daniel Rappo, Eric Taillard

      Pages 157-171

5. Geospatial Web

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Building Location-Based Mass Collaboration Systems: Challenges and Opportunities

      • Arie Croitoru, Ofer Arazy

      Pages 175-189

   3. GeoStream: Spatial Information Indexing Within Textual Documents Supported by a Dynamically Parameterized Web Service

      • Albert Royer, Christian Sallaberry, Pierre Loustau, Mauro Gaio, Thierry Joliveau, Pierre-André Le Ny

      Pages 191-210

   4. WIND: an Interaction Lightweight Programming Model for Geographical Web Applications

      • The Nhan Luong, Patrick Etcheverry, Thierry Nodenot, Christophe Marquesuzaà

      Pages 211-225

6. From Feedback to Future

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. Free and Open Source GIS: Will There Ever Be a Geo-Linux?

      • Gilberto Câmara, Lúbia Vinhas, Ricardo Cartaxo Modesto de Souza

      Pages 229-245

This book contains papers presented at the first Open Source Geospatial Research Symposium held in Nantes City, France, 8-10 July, 2009. It brings together insights and ideas in the fields of Geospatial Information and Geoinformatics. It demonstrates the scientific community dynamism related to open source and free software as well as in defining new concepts, standards or tools.  

• Environmental Planning and Monitoring
• GEOWEB and standards
• Geospatial Information and Geoinformatics
• Open Source Software Users and Developers
• Sustainable Development

• Institute for Research on Urban Sciences and Techniques (IRSTV) FR CNRS 2488, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 3, France

  Erwan Bocher

• Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy

  Markus Neteler

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