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Progress in Spatial Data Handling

12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling

  • State-of-the-art trends and developments in geographic information science are presented

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Table of contents (56 chapters)

  1. Integration and Fusion

    1. Changes in Topological Relations when Splitting and Merging Regions

      • Max J. Egenhofer, Dominik Wilmsen
      Pages 339-352
    2. Coastline Matching Process Based on the Discrete Fréchet Distance

      • Ariane Mascret, Thomas Devogele, Iwan Le Berre, Alain Hénaff
      Pages 383-400
  2. Semantics and Ontologies

    1. Characterizing Land Cover Structure with Semantic Variograms

      • Ola Ahlqvist, Ashton Shortridge
      Pages 401-415
    2. A Quantitative Similarity Measure for Maps

      • Richard Frank, Martin Ester
      Pages 435-450
    3. A Semantic-based Approach to the Representation of Network-Constrained Trajectory Data

      • Xiang Li, Christophe Claramunt, Cyril Ray, Hui Lin
      Pages 451-464
    4. Towards an Ontologically-driven GIS to Characterize Spatial Data Uncertainty

      • Ashton Shortridge, Joseph Messina, Sarah Hession, Yasuyo Makido
      Pages 465-476
  3. 2D-Visualization

    1. Structuring Kinetic Maps

      • Maciej Dakowicz, Chris Gold
      Pages 477-493
    2. Advanced Operations for Maps in Spatial Databases

      • Mark McKenney, Markus Schneider
      Pages 495-510
    3. A Linear Programming Approach to Rectangular Cartograms

      • Bettina Speckmann, Marc van Kreveld, Sander Florisson
      Pages 529-546
  4. 3D-Visualization

    1. Automated Construction of Urban Terrain Models

      • Henrik Buchholz, Jürgen Döllner, Lutz Ross, Birgit Kleinschmit
      Pages 547-562
    2. A Tetrahedronized Irregular Network Based DBMS Approach for 3D Topographic Data Modeling

      • Friso Penninga, Peter van Oosterom, Baris M. Kazar
      Pages 581-598
    3. 3D Analysis with High-Level Primitives: A Crystallographic Approach

      • Benoit Poupeau, Olivier Bonin
      Pages 599-616
  5. Generalization

About this book

Since the first symposium in 1984 the International Symposia on Spatial Data Handling (SDH) has become a major resource for recent advances in GIS research. The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling is regarded as a premier international research forum for GIS. All papers are fully reviewed by an international program committee composed of experts in the field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Andreas Riedl, Wolfgang Kainz

  • Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

    Gregory A. Elmes

About the editors

Andreas Riedl holds a graduate degree and a PhD in geography and cartography from the University of Vienna. He has been active in the field of cartography and GIS in Austria, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands. His research interests are in multimedia and geocommunication, applied GIS, animation, virtual reality and hyperglobes. Currently he is an assistant professor at the University of Vienna.

Wolfgang Kainz holds a graduate degree and a PhD in technical mathematics from the Graz University of Technology, Austria. Since 1981 he has been active in the field of GIS and spatial data handling in various functions at universities and research institutions in Austria, Brazil, Kuwait, Qatar, the USA, and the Netherlands. His research interest is in spatial databases, fuzzy logic and geodata policies. He is Professor of Cartography and Geoinformation at the University of Vienna.

Gregory Elmes holds a graduate degree in Geographic Information Systems from Edinburgh University and a PhD in Geography from the Pennsylvania State University. He is Professor of Geography at West Virginia University and has been active in GIS at universities in Sweden and Italy. His current research interests include the incorporation of spatio-temporal information in health and forensic science, and the implications of geographic information technologies in society at local and global scales.

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