1st Edition

Next Generation Geospatial Information From Digital Image Analysis to Spatiotemporal Databases

By Peggy Agouris, Arie Croituru Copyright 2005

    With the turn of the century our ability to collect and store geospatial information has increased considerably. This has resulted in ever-increasing amounts of heterogeneous geospatial data, an issue that poses new challenges and opportunities. As these rich sources of data are made available, users rely, now more than ever, on the geospatial data infrastructure. The availability and accessibility of such data, as well as the ability to effectively manage, model, index and query the data is becoming a cornerstone in numerous applications. Moreover, the ability to formalize and represent data is becoming key to integration and interoperability. With the introduction of distributed geospatial data infrastructure and the implementation of web-based services, the impact of such issues is becoming even more evident. Inspired by these challenges, this book on Next Generation Geospatial Information offers a collection of original contributions from leading experts in spatial information modeling, image processing and analysis, database management, ontologies and data mining. It provides a unique insight into the current state-of-the-art and future challenges in geospatial information through four thematic chapters, each of which represents a primary research theme, namely distributed spatial infrastructure, image-based geospatial information management, indexing and querying geospatial databases, and ontology and semantics for geospatial data.

    Keynote paper

    Invasive Species: An Emerging Science Application for Geospatial Information
    J.L. Schnase

    Chapter 1: Distributed Geospatial Data Infrastructure

    Foreword

    Geographic Inform ation Retrieval
    A. Markowetz, T. Brinkhoff, and B. Seeger,

    Grid-Enabled Mediation Service for Geospatial Information
    I. Zaslavsky, C. Baru, K. Bhatia, A. Memon, P. Velikhov, and V. Veytser

    A Quantitative Analysis of a Mobile Distributed Geospatial Agent Architecture
    J.J. Nolan and A.K. Sood

    Continuous Generalization for Small Mobile Displays
    C. Brenner and M. Sester

    Chapter 2: Image-Based Geospatial Information Management and Modeling

    Foreword

    Image-Based Automatic Object Outline Updating in Geospatial Databases
    S. Gyftakis, P. Agouris, and A. Stefanidis

    A Semi-Automated Approach for the Recognition and Extraction of Water Features from Landsat 7 Imagery in Northern Canada
    C. Armenakis

    Change Detection and Integration of Topographic Updates from ATKIS to Geoscientific Data Sets
    G.V. Goesseln and M. Sester

    Evaluating Geometric and Radiometric Suitability for Optimal Image Selection in VR Modeling
    C. Georgiadis and A. Stefanidis

    Chapter 3: Indexing and Querying Geospatial Databases

    Foreword

    A Unified Index Scheme for Location Data and Mobile Customer Profiles
    V. Atluri, N.R. Adam and M. Youssef

    Timelets: a Data Model for Immense-Scale, Subsecond GIS
    R.M. Akscyn and O.F. Rama

    Spatial Cone Tree: An Auxiliary Search Structure for Correlation-Based Similarity Queries on Spatial Time Series Data
    P. Zhang, S. Shekhar, V. Kumar and Y. Huang

    Learning Approximate Thematic Maps for Labeled Geospatial Data
    M. Sharifzadeh, C. Shahabi, and C.A. Knoblock

    Chapter 4: Ontology and Semantics for Geospatial Data

    Foreword

    A Unified Ontological Framework for Semantic Integration
    M. Kavouras

    Ontology-Based Geospatial Web Query System
    N. Wiegand and N. Zhou

    Incorporating Process in Geographic Information for Enhancing Semantic Verification
    C.C. Feng and D.M. Flewelling

    Biography

    Agouris, Peggy; Croituru, Arie