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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 ...
A comparative study on VGI and professional noise data
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
The ubiquitous nature of mobile devices and its growing presence in urban areas, turn them up into low cost environmental monitoring platforms. In this field, several authors made different efforts to provide alternatives ...
Street network created by proximity graphs: Its topological structure and travel efficiency
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
There exists a large body of basic research on street networks using proximity graphs from various viewpoints. In the present study, we employ proximity graphs based on β-skeletons which change in response to variations ...
An algorithm for segmenting a feature set into equitable regions
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
A set of geographic features of the same class representing a geographic area is often required to be divided in to several subsets/regions
so that the sum of a numeric attribute of the features in each subset/region ...
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.
Characteristics of Citizen-contributed Geographic Information
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
Current Internet applications have been increasingly incorporating citizen-contributed geographic information (CCGI) with much heterogeneous characteristics. Nevertheless, despite their differences, several terms are often ...
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 ...
The effects of different verbal route instructions on spatial orientation
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
Providing cognitively effective wayfinding instructions is an ongoing research agenda. In addition to providing instructions that are easy to follow, work has started to address instructions that can potentially facilitate ...
Crowdsourced-based mapping of historical west-to-east routes from the textual accounts of European Travelers
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
Through the centuries, numerous travellers and orientalists visited Persia (Iran) and described the country and its inhabitants in their travel writings. These travel accounts comprise valuable historical information about ...
Comparing Knowledge-Driven and Data-Driven Modeling methods for susceptibility mapping in spatial epidemiology: a case study in Visceral Leishmaniasis
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
The aim of this study is to compare knowledge-driven and data-driven methods for susceptibility mapping in spatial epidemiology. Our comparison focuses on one of the arguably most important requisites in such models, namely ...