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HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Enhancing the Accessibility of Maps with Personal Frames of Reference
Abstract. The visualization of geographic information requires large displays. Even large screens can be insufficient to visualize e.g. a long route in a scale, such that all decis...
Falko Schmid
TGIS
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Using Ontologies for Integrated Geographic Information Systems
Today, there is a huge amount of data gathered about the Earth, not only from new spatial information systems, but also from new and more sophisticated data collection technologie...
Frederico T. Fonseca, Max J. Egenhofer, Peggy Agou...
TGIS
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
The Nature of Uncertainty in Historical Geographic Information
While the presence of uncertainty in the geometric and attribute aspects of geographic information is well known, it is also present in temporal information. In spatiotemporal GIS...
Brandon Plewe
JIIS
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Spatial ordering and encoding for geographic data mining and visualization
: Geographic information (e.g., locations, networks, and nearest neighbors) are unique and different from other aspatial attributes (e.g., population, sales, or income). It is a ch...
Diansheng Guo, Mark Gahegan
MVA
1990
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13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Fire Detection by Changing Region Analysis Based on Geographic Information
This paper proposes a new method for automatic fire detection in cities using image processing techniques. Images are obtained successively at regular intervals from monochrome TV...
Hideo Numagami, Akio Okazaki
SCANGIS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Modelling Units of Real Property Rights
The GI2000 initiative considered the requirements for a geographic information infrastructure in Europe. This was followed by the European Territorial Management Information Infras...
Erik Stubkjær
GEOINFO
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Desenvolvimento de SIG para Web utilizando MDA
This work aims at increasing the development productivity of the Geographic Information Systems through the MDA. We defined an UML extension which adds geographic information to th...
Carlos Eduardo R. de Mello, Geraldo Zimbrão...
ER
2008
Springer
102views Database» more  ER 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Retrieving Documents with Geographic References Using a Spatial Index Structure Based on Ontologies
Abstract. Both Geographic Information Systems and Information Retrieval have been very active research fields in the last decades. Lately, a new research field called Geographic In...
Miguel Rodríguez Luaces, Ángeles S. ...
COSIT
2001
Springer
122views GIS» more  COSIT 2001»
13 years 9 months ago
A Geographer Looks at Spatial Information Theory
Geographic information is defined as a subset of spatial information, specific to the spatiotemporal frame of the Earth’s surface. Thus geographic information theory inherits the...
Michael F. Goodchild
EGOV
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
M-GIS - Mobile and Interoperable Access to Geographic Information
This paper describes an architecture which can be used to access geographic information from mobile devices with limited display and processing characteristics, such as Personal Di...
Jorge Cardoso, Artur Rocha, João Correia Lo...