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Data Scarcity or low Representativeness?: What hinders accuracy and precision of spatial interpolation of climate data?
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)Data scarcity is a major scientific challenge for accuracy and precision of spatial interpolation of climatic fields, especially in climatestressed developing countries. Methodologies have been suggested for coping up ... -
Design ofthe Data Transformation Architecture forthe INSPIRE Data Model Browser
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)The INSPIRE directive requires that inside a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) data are provided using a model compliant with the INSPIRE Data Model (IDM). Therefore, one of the main issues during the implementation of an ... -
ELF GeoLocator Service
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)This paper describes the implementation of a gazetteer service, GeoLocator, developed in the project ‘European Location Framework’ (ELF). The GeoLocator service contains data from the INSPIRE/ELF themes Geographical Names, ... -
Enhancing the role of Citizen Sensors in Mapping: COST Action TD1202
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)This article introduces a strategic initiative, COST Action TD1202, focused on the role of citizen sensors in mapping. It outlines the Action’s scope, aims and current status. In particular, the article outlines the potential ... -
Error propagation in a fuzzy logic spatial multi-criteria evaluation
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)Quantifying errors in results of spatial multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) techniques is essential to improve the credibility of MCE in planning and decision-making. We present an error propagation procedure using Monte Carlo ... -
Estimating Moving Regions out of Point Data – from Excavation Sites in the Amazon region to Areas of Influence of Prehistoric Cultures
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)How can we derive the changing area of influence of specific cultures from only a few excavation sites in the Amazon region? The approach used for calculating areas of influence for several time intervals strongly depends ... -
Evaluation of subjective preferences regarding indoor maps: comparison of schematic maps and floor plans
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)In this study, we investigate subjective preferences regarding floor plans and schematic maps in the use of a map in an indoor environment. To achieve this, we performed a qualitative experiment with a random user sample; ... -
Exploring the market potential for geo-ICT companies in relation to INSPIRE
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)The implementation of INSPIRE can bring new and interesting business opportunities to European geo-ICT companies. Until now, little information has been available on the participation of geo-ICT companies in the implementation ... -
Exploring twitter georeferenced data related to flood events: an initial approach
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)The purpose of this research-in-progress paper is to present an initial data exploration of twitter georeferenced data related to flood events, in order to determine the potential of these type of data in flood damage ... -
FOODIE: Farm‐Oriented Open Data in Europe
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)The agriculture sector is a unique sector due to its strategic importance for both European citizens (consumers) and European economy (regional and global) which, ideally, should make the whole sector a network of interacting ... -
Fuzzy viewshed, probable viewshed, and their use in the analysis of prehistoric monuments placement in Western Slovakia
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)Viewshed analysis is used in many fields (e.g. landscape architecture, military, or archaeology) to determinate locations visible from one or more observation points in order to examine suitability of the placement of ... -
Geo-Information Visualizations of Linked Data
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)Linked Data provides an ever-growing source of geographically referenced data for application development. In this paper, we analyse the workflow behind the development of such an application. Using two examples based ... -
Geographic Information Technologies for analysing the digital footprint of tourists
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)As part of a study on the use of the city by visitors, this paper discusses the technical solution adopted in order to analyse and exploit the geo-digital footprint generated by the said visitors using GPS devices. -
GEOSUD SDI: accessing Earth Observation data collections with semantic-based services
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)Ecosystems and territories are complex systems involving multidisciplinary approaches on different time scales and different locations. Yet, mastering the spatial information on these systems is critical to lead a relevant ... -
How Earth Observation, Crop Modeling, and ICT can help rice cultivation: the ERMES project
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)Due to pressure of food demand, increased price competition and demand for sustainable farming practices, it’s increasingly important to optimize agricultural practices. The European FP7 project ERMES focuses specifically ... -
How to visualize the geography of Swiss history
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)Efficient and effective access to and knowledge construction from massively growing spatial and non-spatial databases available online today have become major bottlenecks for the rapidly evolving information society at ... -
IDE-OTALEX C. The big challenge of the first Crossborder SDI between Spain and Portugal
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)The SDI implementation is an average difficult work. There should be an understanding between political and scientific interests, technological advances and it is also quite recommended to meet the needs of citizens. A ... -
Improving equity of public transportation planning. The case of Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)Public transport planning requires consideration of equity in access of the population to the transport service. This paper presents a methodology for the analysis of public transport in the city of Palma and its evaluation ... -
Influence of point cloud density on the results of automated Object-Based building extraction from ALS data
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)Nowadays there is a plethora of approaches dealing with object extraction from remote sensing data. Airborne Laser scanning (ALS) has become a new method for timely and accurate collection of spatial data in the form of ... -
Is this Twitter event a disaster?
AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)Social media services such as Twitter have become an important channel for reporting real-world events. For example, they can describe the current situation during a disaster. The decisions in crises management are based ...