• openAccess   A scoping review on the use, processing, and fusion of geographic data in virtual assistants 

      Granell, Carlos; Pesántez-Cabrera, Paola; Vilches-Blázquez, Luis M.; Achig, Rosario; Luaces, Miguel R.; Cortiñas, Alejandro; Chayle, Carolina; Morocho, Villie Wiley (2021)
      Virtual assistants are a growing area of research in academia and industry with an impact on people’s daily life. Many disciplines in science are moving towards the incorporation of intelligent virtual ...
    • openAccess   Advancing Science with VGI: Reproducibility and Replicability of Recent Studies using VGI 

      Ostermann, Frank; Granell, Carlos Wiley (2017)
      In scientific research, reproducibility and replicability are requirements to ensure the advancement of our body of knowledge. T his holds true also for VGI - related research and studies. However, the characteristics of ...
    • openAccess   An Analytics Platform for Integrating and Computing Spatio-Temporal Metrics 

      Rodríguez-Pupo, Luis E.; Granell, Carlos; Casteleyn, Sven MDPI (2019)
      In large-scale context-aware applications, a central design concern is capturing, managing and acting upon location and context data. The ability to understand the collected data and define meaningful contextual events, ...
    • closedAccess   An assessment of Public Participation GIS and Web 2.0 technologies in urban planning practice in Canela, Brazil 

      Bugs, Geisa; Granell, Carlos; Fonts Bartolomé, Óscar; Huerta, Joaquin; Painho, Marco Elsevier (2010)
      Recent advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Web 2.0 technologies provide new ways of creating sophisticated Web applications that strengthen social interactions based on comments on online maps, which have ...
    • openAccess   Assessment of OGC Web Processing Services for REST principles 

      Granell, Carlos; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Tamayo Fong, Alain; Huerta, Joaquin Inderscience (2014)
      Recent distributed computing trends advocate the use of REpresentational State Transfer (REST) to alleviate the inherent complexity of the web services standards in building service-oriented web applications. In this paper ...
    • openAccess   Beyond data collection: Objectives and methods of research using VGI and geo-social media for disaster management 

      Granell, Carlos; Ostermann, Frank Elsevier (2016)
      This paper investigates research using VGI and geo-social media in the disaster management context. Relying on the method of systematic mapping, it develops a classification schema that captures three levels of main ...
    • openAccess   Descriptions of Spatial Operations -- Recent Approaches and Community Feedback 

      Hofer, Barbara; Brauner, Johannes; Wiemann, Stefan; Jackson, Mike J.; Granell, Carlos; Rodrigues, Amanda; Nuest, Daniel European Commission Joint Research Centre (2015)
      Progress in the technical provision of spatial operations as loosely-coupled interoperable web services requires a corresponding development of standardisation in their description. Operation discovery, usage and interpretation ...
    • openAccess   Downstream Services for Rice Crop Monitoring in Europe: From Regional to Local Scale 

      Busetto, Lorenzo; Casteleyn, Sven; Granell, Carlos; Pepe, Monica; Barbieri, Massimo; Campos-Taberner, Manuel; CASA, Raffaele; Collivignarelli, Francesco; Confalonieri, Roberto; Crema, Alberto; García Haro, Francisco Javier; Luca Gatti; Gatti, Luca; Gitas, Ioannis; González-Pérez, Alberto; Grau Muedra, Gonçal Andreu; Guarneri, Tommaso; Holecz, Francesco; Katsantonis, Dimitrios; Minakou, Chara; Miralles, Ignacio; Movedi, Ermes; Nutini, Francesco; Pagani, Valentina; Palombo, Angelo; DI Paola, Francesco; Pascucci, Simone; Pignatti, Stefano; RAMPINI, ANNA; Ranghetti, Luigi; Ricciardelli, Elisabetta; Romano, Filomena; Stavrakoudis, Dimitris; STROPPIANA, DANIELA; VIGGIANO, MARIASSUNTA; BOSCHETTI, MIRCO Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2017-04)
      The ERMES agromonitoring system for rice cultivations integrates EO data at different resolutions, crop models, and user-provided in situ data in a unified system, which drives two operational downstream services for rice ...
    • openAccess   Enhancing In Vivo Exposure in the Treatment of Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia Using Location-Based Technologies: A Case Study 

      Miralles, Ignacio; Granell, Carlos; Díaz-García, Amanda; Castilla, Diana; González-Pérez, Alberto; Casteleyn, Sven; Bretón-López, Juana SAGE Publications (2020-04)
      Panic disorder (PD) is quite prevalent and often appears along with agoraphobia (PD/A). The treatment of choice is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Transdiagnostic intervention, an emotion-focused, cognitive behavioral ...
    • openAccess   EWOk: Towards Efficient Multidimensional Compression of Indoor Positioning Datasets (Epub ahead of print) 

      Klus, Lucie; Klus, Roman; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Lohan, Elena Simona; Granell, Carlos; Nurmi, Jari Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (2023-05-17)
      Indoor positioning performed directly at the end-user device ensures reliability in case the network connection fails but is limited by the size of the RSS radio map necessary to match the measured array to the device’s ...
    • openAccess   Future Internet technologies for Environmental Applications 

      Granell, Carlos; Havlik, Denis; Schade, Sven; Sabeur, Zoheir; Delaney, Conor; Pielorz, Jasmin; Usländer, Thomas; Mazzetti, Paolo; Schleidt, Katharina; Kobernus, Mike; Havlik, Fuada; Rune Bodsberg, Nils; Berre, Arne; Mon, Jose Lorenzo Elsevier (2016)
      This paper investigates the usability of Future Internet technologies (aka “Generic Enablers of the Future Internet”) in the context of environmental applications. The paper incorporates the best aspects of the state-of-the-art ...
    • openAccess   Geolocalización en TB: producción de mapas de distribución espacial en TB en Barcelona 

      Dominkovics Coll, Pau; Perez-Navarro, Antoni; Granell, Carlos Esmon (2011)
      Tener en cuenta la componenete geográfica va más allá de representar un punto sobre un mapa: consiste en relacionar geográficamente diversas variables y representarlas conjuntamente para generar información. En este sentido ...
    • openAccess   Geoskills among academic librarians in Greece, Cyprus and Spain 

      Vardakosta, Ifigenia; Aguilar Moreno, Estefanía; Granell, Carlos; Kapidakis, Sarantos Elsevier (2016)
      Existing literature on Geographic Information (GI) and libraries points out that American and Canadian librarians have long been aware of the intimate relationship between geospatial data and libraries. In Europe, though, ...
    • openAccess   Global earth observation initiatives: European contributions to GEOSS 

      Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Granell, Carlos; Huerta, Joaquin; Simonazzi Domínguez, Walter Novática (2009-04)
      This article provides an introduction to European initiatives relating to spatial and environmental data policy contribut- ing to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). We begin by describing the background ...
    • openAccess   gvSOS: a new client for the OGC® Sensor Obseration Service Interface standard 

      Tamayo Fong, Alain; Huerta, Joaquin; Granell, Carlos; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Quirós Bauset, Ricardo Wiley-Blackwell (2009-06)
      A key problem with sensor networks is achieving interoperability between different networks potentially built using different software and hardware platforms. Services interfaced by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) ...
    • openAccess   Iniciativas globales para la Observación de la Tierra: Contribuciones europeas a GEOSS 

      Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Granell, Carlos; Huerta, Joaquin; Simonazzi Domínguez, Walter Asociación de Técnicos de Informática (2009)
      El presente trabajo introduce las iniciativas europeas en materia de política espacial y datos medioambientales que contribuyen al Sistema Global de Sistemas para la Observación de la Tierra (Global Earth Observation ...
    • closedAccess   Innovación Abierta 

      Granell, Carlos; Moreno, Carlos Asociación de Técnicos de Informática (ATI) (2015-06)
      Nuestro objetivo en esta monografía sobre Innovación Abierta es ofrecer experiencias y casos de uso de la mano de actores relevantes implicados directamente en procesos de innovación. Pero, antes de introducir cada uno ...
    • openAccess   Interactive guidelines: Public communication of data-based research in cities 

      Trilles, Sergio; Granell, Carlos; Degbelo, Auriol; Bhattacharya, Devanjan Public Library of Science (2020)
      Scientific research results are traditionally published as articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings or journals. These articles often use technical jargon, which precludes the general public from consuming the ...
    • closedAccess   Managing user-generated information in geospatial cyberinfrastructures 

      Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Granell, Carlos; Gould, Michael; Huerta, Joaquin Elsevier (2011)
      Information systems built using standards-based distributed services have become the default computing paradigm adopted by the geospatial community for building information infrastructures also known as Spatial Data ...
    • openAccess   On Metrics for Location-Aware Games 

      Rodríguez-Pupo, Luis E.; Casteleyn, Sven; Granell, Carlos MDPI (2017-09)
      Metrics are important and well-known tools to measure users’ behavior in games, and gameplay in general. Particularities of location-aware games—a class of games where the player’s location plays a central role-demand ...