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Applying a CA-based model to explore land-use policy scenarios to contain sprawl in Thessaloniki, Greece
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
This study addresses the issue of urban sprawl through the application of a Cellular Automata (CA) based model in the area of Thessaloniki, Greece. To link macro-scale to micro-dynamic processes the model integrates a ...
Publishing metadata of geospatial indicators as Linked Open Data: a policy-oriented approach
(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 ...
Queues in Ski Resort Graphs: the Ski-Optim Model
(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 ...
A conceptual representation for modelling the synchronization process of complex road networks
(AGILE Digital Editions, 2014-06)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...