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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 ...
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 ...
Utilization of NoSQL database for disaster preparedness
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
Nowadays, in the age of big data, geodatabases become more critical with respect to geospatial data volume, variety and capacity. It is required that geodatabases must be capable enough to cope with high stakes of geospatial ...
Visualization of uncertain catchment boundaries and its influence on decision making
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
In this poster, we introduce an on-going project where uncertainty-aware drainage divides were calculated, visualized, and tested as background data for the decision-making process.
Qualitative Representation of Dynamic Attributes of Trajectories
(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 ...
Planned vs. Real City: 3D GIS for Analyzing the Transformation of Urban Morphology
(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 ...
VGI Edit History Reveals Data Trustworthiness and User Reputation
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is an approach to crowdsource information about geospatial features around us. People around the world are engaged with typing in their observations about the world (like locations ...
A flexible framework for assessing the quality of crowdsourced data
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
Crowdsourcing as a means of data collection has produced previously unavailable data assets and enriched existing ones, but its quality can be highly variable. This presents several challenges to potential end users that ...
Little Steps Towards Big Goals. Using Linked Data to Develop Next Generation Spatial Data Infrastructures (aka SDI 3.0)
(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 ...
Cropland capture: A gaming approach to improve global land cover
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
Accurate and reliable information on global cropland extent is needed for a number of applications, e g. to estimate potential yield losses in the wake of a drought or for assessing future scenarios of climate change on ...