Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing

This book introduces Python scripting for geographic information science (GIS) workflow optimization using ArcGIS.

This book is a selection of the best and peer-reviewed articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of July 2015 at MIT in Boston, USA.

New In This Edition: This second edition of the Encyclopedia of GIS includes 30% to 50% new content.

This book covers key issues related to Geospatial Semantic Web, including geospatial web services for spatial data interoperability; geospatial ontology for semantic interoperability; ontology creation, sharing, and integration; querying knowledge and information from heterogeneous data source; interfaces for Geospatial Semantic Web, VGI (Volunteered Geographic Information) and Geospatial Semantic Web; challenges of Geospatial Semantic Web; and development of Geospatial Semantic Web applications.

This book is an important volume in the series on the state-of-art research in Cartography and GI Science.

This monograph presents a unified approach to model-based processing for underwater acoustic arrays.

This book presents cutting-edge remote sensing research, outlining the advanced use of European Space Agency (ESA) satellite data in the context of climate change.

This is a book is a collection of articles that will be submitted as full papers to the AGILE annual international conference.

These Workshop Proceedings reflect problems concerning advanced geo-information science with a special emphasis on deep virtualization for mobile GIS.

This book explores the dynamics of the interaction between the development of creative industries and urban land use in Nanjing, a metropolis and a growth pole in the Yangtze River Delta.

This volume comprises an outstanding variety of chapters on Earth Observation based time series analyses, undertaken to reveal past and current land surface dynamics for large areas.

This book assists the reader in determining storm risks, focussing on sandy coasts and cliff coasts in the context of expected sea level rise from littoral transformation and climate change.

This book contains a detailed presentation of general principles of sensitivity analysis as well as their applications to sample cases of remote sensing experiments.

The foremost aim of the present study was the development of a tool to detect daily deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, using satellite images from the MODIS/TERRA sensor and Artificial Neural Networks.

This book takes a quantitative look at ICT-generated event data to highlight current trends and issues in Nigeria at the local, state and national levels.

This book explains the potential value of using mobile phone data to monitor urban practices and identify rhythms of use in today's cities.

This edited volume presents a collection of lessons learned with, and research conducted on, OpenStreetMap, the goal being to promote the project's integration.

This volume offers concepts, methods and case studies of innovative and evolving technologies in the area of watershed assessment.

This book discusses a range of planning and management issues related to building urban resiliency.

This book presents a selection of conference contributions from CARO'13 (Conference on Aerospace Robotics), which was held in Warsaw from July 1 to 3, 2013.

This book offers a unique collection of inter- and multidisciplinary studies on river systems.

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This comprehensive and clearly structured book presents essential information on modern Location Science.

Nowadays 3D Geoinformation is needed for many planning and analysis tasks.

The main focus of this monograph is synthesizing the importance of geographic approaches to public health and patient care.

This book presents a general picture of recent research activities related to location-based services.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2014, held in Vienna, Austria in September 2014.

This textbook offers a statistical view on the geometry of multiple view analysis, required for camera calibration and orientation and for geometric scene reconstruction based on geometric image features.

The aim of the book is to present and discuss new methods, issues and challenges involved in geoinformatics' contribution to making transportation more intelligent, efficient and human-friendly.

This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the IAG international symposium "e;Gravity, Geoid and Height Systems 2012"e; (GGHS2012), which was organized by IAG Commission 2 "e;Gravity Field"e; with the assistance of the International Gravity Field Service (IGFS) and GGOS Theme 1 "e;Unified Global Height System"e;.

These proceedings contain 25 papers, which are the peer-reviewed versions of presentations made at the 1st International Workshop on the Quality of Geodetic Observation and Monitoring (QuGOMS'11), held 13 April to 15 April 2011 in Garching, Germany.

This book delivers concise coverage of classical methods and new developments related to indoor location-based services.

This SpringerBrief discusses the characteristics of spatiotemporal movement data, including uncertainty and scale.

How does one determine how similar two maps are?

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful tool for the investigation of species-habitat relationships and the development of wildlife management and conservation programs.

In Europe, the emerging discipline of geodesign was earmarked by the first Geodesign Summit held in 2013 at the GeoFort, the Netherlands.

"e;Thematic Cartography for the Society"e; is prepared on the basis of the best 30 papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Cartography and GIS held in Albena, Bulgaria in 2014.

The fast exchange of information and knowledge are the essential conditions for successful and effective research and practical applications in cartography.

Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Research is the basis for advanced Earth Observation (EO) datasets used in environmental monitoring and research.

Global trends such as urbanization, demographic and climate change that are currently underway pose serious challenges to sustainable development and integrated resources management.

This book covers the latest research on landmarks in GIS, including practical applications.

This book examines and analyzes issues related to public finance in subnational governments, along with a discussion of case studies on decentralization.

This book is geared for advanced level research in the general subject area of remote sensing and modeling as they apply to the coastal marine environment.

This book brings together geometric tools and their applications for Information analysis.

With increased climate variability, aggravated natural hazards in the form of extreme events are affecting the lives and livelihoods of many people.

These proceedings are aimed at researchers, industry / market operators and students from different backgrounds (scientific, engineering and humanistic) whose work is either focused on or affined to Location Based Services (LBS).

This book presents the latest research developments in geoinformation science, which includes all the sub-disciplines of the field, such as: geomatic engineering, GIS, remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, digital cartography, etc.

This book collects innovative research presented at the 17th Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE) on Geographic Information Science, held in 2014 in Castellon, Spain.

This book explores the roles in which volunteered and professional information play within neogeography from a human factors perspective.

Fifty years after Sputnik, artificial satellites have become indispensable monitors in many areas, such as economics, meteorology, telecommunications, navigation and remote sensing.