• openAccess   How Earth Observation, Crop Modeling, and ICT can help rice cultivation: the ERMES project 

      Casteleyn, Sven; Granell, Carlos; Trilles, Sergio; Huerta, Joaquin; BOSCHETTI, MIRCO; Busetto, Lorenzo; Pepe, Monica; Katsantonis, Dimitrios; Confalonieri, Roberto; Holecz, Francesco; García Haro, Javier; Gitas, Ioannis 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 ...
    • openAccess   How to visualize the geography of Swiss history 

      Bruggmann, André; Fabrikant, Sara I. 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 ...
    • openAccess   IDE-OTALEX C. The big challenge of the first Crossborder SDI between Spain and Portugal 

      Batista, Teresa; Caballero, Carmen; Ceballos, Fernando; Carriço, Cristina; Vivas White, Pedro; Cabezas, José; Ferdández, Luis; Pinto-Gomes, Carlos 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 ...
    • openAccess   Improving equity of public transportation planning. The case of Palma de Mallorca (Spain) 

      Ruiz Pérez, Maurici; Seguí Pons, Joana Maria; Mateu Lladó, Jaume; Martínez Reynés, María Rosa 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 ...
    • openAccess   Influence of point cloud density on the results of automated Object-Based building extraction from ALS data 

      Tomljenovic, Ivan; Rousell, Adam 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 ...
    • openAccess   Is this Twitter event a disaster? 

      Dittrich, André; Lucas, Christian 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 ...
    • openAccess   It’s GIrls’ Day! What sketch maps show about girls’ spatial knowledge 

      Anacta, Vanessa Joy A.; Bartoschek, Thomas AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      This paper describes the analysis of sketch maps from girls who participated in the Girls’ Day annual event in Germany. The event caters to girls from Grades 7 – 10 as an opportunity to experience various jobs that might ...
    • openAccess   Latest Developments and activities in the Spanish NSDI 

      Rodríguez, Antonio AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The Spanish NSDI Geoportal was opened on June 2004 and has evolving continuously with the support of a healthy collaborative community composed by public and private sector, academia and citizens. INSPIRE Directive has ...
    • openAccess   Linking crowdsourced observations with INSPIRE 

      Wiemann, Stefan; Bernard, Lars AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The combination of spatial data from the variety of sources on the web, being either legislative, commercially or voluntarily driven, is a major requirement for the establishment of a fully integrated geospatial web. ...
    • openAccess   Little Steps Towards Big Goals. Using Linked Data to Develop Next Generation Spatial Data Infrastructures (aka SDI 3.0) 

      Harvey, Francis; Jones, Jim; Scheider, Simon; Iwaniak, Adam; Kaczmarek, Iwona; Łukowicz, Jaromar; Strzelecki, Marek AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Society is moving at an increasing pace toward the next stage of the information society through linked data. Among the relevant developments in geographic information science, linked data approaches offer potential for ...
    • openAccess   Multi-sensory Integration for a digital earth nervous system 

      Ostermann, Frank AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The amount of geospatial data is increasing, but interoperability issues hinder integrated discovery, view and analysis. This paper suggests an illustrative and extensible solution to some of the underlying challenges, ...
    • openAccess   Noise map: professional versus crowdsourced data 

      Pődör, Andrea; Révész, András AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The goal of the recent study is to evaluate the usability of the data measurement capability of an average smartphone and make a comparative study on available open source mobile applications potentially suitable to noise ...
    • openAccess   Orchestrating the spatial planning process: from Business Process Management to 2nd generation Planning Support Systems 

      Campagna, Michele; Ivanov, Konstatin; Massa, Pierangelo AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Metaplanning can be considered as a necessary step for improving collaboration, transparency and accountability in sustainable and democratic spatial decision-making process. This paper reports current findings on the ...
    • openAccess   Planned vs. Real City: 3D GIS for Analyzing the Transformation of Urban Morphology 

      Garcia-Almirall, Pilar; Valls Dalmau, Francesc; Moix Bergada, Montserrat AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Cities are constantly evolving: buildings are built and demolished, altering the landscape of our cities; Urban Plans describe what we want our cities to be, undergoing revisions as we change our vision of the future of ...
    • openAccess   Publishing metadata of geospatial indicators as Linked Open Data: a policy-oriented approach 

      Tirry, Diederik; Crabbé, Ann; Steenberghen, Thérèse AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Geospatial indicators are becoming increasingly important for governments in monitoring and underpinning policy planning and political decision making. Currently, the discovery, viewing and sharing of these indicators is ...
    • openAccess   Qualitative Representation of Dynamic Attributes of Trajectories 

      Paiva Nogueira, Tales; Martin, Hervé AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Trajectory dynamic characteristics may be a very relevant source of information to analyze the behaviour of moving objects. However, most of existing works on trajectory representation deal only with basic parameters of ...
    • openAccess   Queues in Ski Resort Graphs: the Ski-Optim Model 

      Barras, Tino; Doctor, Marut; Revilloud, Marc; Schumacher, Michael; Loubier, Jean-Christophe AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      It is rather unknown how skiers move inside ski areas. However, new data collection systems, such as RFID chips on ski passes (which allow counting skiers at the gates of the cableways), can be used to analyse the movement ...
    • openAccess   Real-time detection of anomalous paths through networks 

      Prager, Steven D.; Wiegand, R. Paul AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The proliferation of increasingly inexpensive mobile devices capable of transmitting accurate positional information to other devices and servers has led to a variety of applications ranging from health situation monitoring ...
    • openAccess   Recitoire: a tool for qualitative surveys involving citizens in urban planning projects 

      Noël, David; Villanova-Oliver, Marlène; Gensel, Jérôme AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The difficulty to involve citizens into projects that influence or transform their experience of the urban space is underlined by public authorities and professionals such as urban planners. The implication of citizens ...
    • openAccess   SDI strategic planning using the system dynamics technique: A case study in Tanzania 

      Mansourian, Ali; Lubida, Alex; Abdolmajidi, Ehsan; Pilesjö, Petter; Runnström, Micael AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Development of spatial data Infrastructure (SDI) is a long term process, which requires long-term plans. The complexity of SDI, which is a matter of technical, institutional and financial challenges and their interactions, ...