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Agile access to sensor network
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
The work in this paper aims at increasing the interoperability and improving accessibility of data provided by sensor networks. This way, this data can be employed by different devices and with diverse context requirements, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.