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GIS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Improved visibility computation on massive grid terrains
Jeremy Fishman, Herman J. Haverkort, Laura Toma
GIS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Topological relations from metric refinements
Naive Geography’s premise “Topology matters, metric refines” calls for metric properties that provide opportunities for finergrained distinctions than the purely qualitative...
Max J. Egenhofer, Matthew P. Dube
GIS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Constrained reverse nearest neighbor search on mobile objects
In this paper, we formalize the novel concept of Constrained Reverse k-Nearest Neighbor (CRkNN) search on mobile objects (clients) performed at a central server. The CRkNN query c...
Tobias Emrich, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kröge...
GIS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A salience-based approach for the modeling of landscape descriptions
While conventional GIS maps have long been a privileged way for the integration and diffusion of geographical information, novel forms of representation and description of urban ...
Jean-Marie Le Yaouanc, Eric Saux, Christophe Clara...
GIS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
An agenda for the next generation gazetteer: geographic information contribution and retrieval
Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities to fully i...
Carsten Keßler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Mohamed ...
GIS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Tree detection from aerial imagery
We propose an automatic approach to tree detection from aerial imagery. First a pixel-level classifier is trained to assign a {tree, non-tree} label to each pixel in an aerial im...
Lin Yang, Xiaqing Wu, Emil Praun, Xiaoxu Ma
GIS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a probabilistic time geography
Time geography uses space-time volumes to represent the possible locations of a mobile agent over time in a x-y-t space. Space-time volumes are qualitative statements, enabling qu...
Stephan Winter
GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Web 2.0 Geospatial Visual Analytics for Improved Urban Flooding Situational Awareness and Assessment
Situational awareness of urban flooding during storm events is important for disaster and emergency management. However, no general purpose tools yet exist for rendering rainfall ...
Alejandro Rodríguez, David Hill, Jim Myers,...
GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
PROS: A Peer-to-Peer System for Location Privacy Protection on Road Networks
The k-anonymity technique is widely used to provide location privacy protection for accessing location-based services (LBS), i.e., the exact location of a query initiator is cloak...
Jie Bao 0003, Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku
GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Analysis of community-contributed space- and time-referenced data
Space- and time-referenced data published on the Web by general people can be viewed in a dual way: as independent spatiotemporal events and as trajectories of people in the geogr...
Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Peter Bak, S...