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Location Based Services

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Location-based services (LBS) have been a research field since the early 2000s. With the recent rapid advances in mobile computing technologies and the ubiquity of mobile devices, LBS are entering into many aspects of our daily life. This chapter provides an up-to-date overview of the field of LBS. Particularly, it introduces the essential components within the LBS ecosystem, i.e., mobile devices/users, positioning, communication networks, service and content provider; typical application domains of LBS; and key research areas, i.e., positioning, context modeling, and information communication and adaptation, as well as recent research trends and open research challenges currently presented in the domain of LBS.

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  1. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Haosheng Huang

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Huang, H. (2022). Location Based Services. In: Kresse, W., Danko, D. (eds) Springer Handbook of Geographic Information. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_22

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