The European Information Society: Leading the Way with Geo-information (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography) (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

The Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE) conferences provide a multidisciplinary forum for an increasingly varied landscape of scientific knowledge production and dissemination, to th GI Scientists from around the world. This year’s landmark 10 AGILE Conference, held at the top of Europe in Aalborg, Denmark, brought a number of significant changes to the well-established conference series. For the first time the call for papers included a full-paper submission track of original, unpublished, fundamental scientific research, the results of which you will find published in this volume. The response for this call provides ample evidence that GI Science and Systems are alive and well in Europe. Twenty-eight papers (out of 62 submissions) were accepted for this volume (acceptance rate: 45%). Judging by the author’s affiliations in this volume, the diverse AGILE Community includes (but is not limited to) computer scientists, geographers, geomatic engineers, GI Science pr- titioners, just to mention a few. The breadth of submissions reflects a vibrant and globally interc- nected GI Science community. You will find contributions from all four corners of Europe, as well as from China, Japan, and the United States. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Enabling P2P Cooperative WMS Proxy Caching and Prefetching in an Educational Environment....Pages 1-14 An ontological-based approach to Geographic Information Science curricula design....Pages 15-34 An Adaptive Land-use Simulation Model for Integrated Coastal Zone Planning....Pages 35-53 Delineation of individual tree crowns for LiDAR tree and stand parameter estimation in Scottish woodlands....Pages 55-85 Resolution Sensitivity of a Compound Terrain Derivative as Computed from LiDAR-Based Elevation Data....Pages 87-109 A Universal Abstract Model for Future Movements of Moving Objects....Pages 111-120 A user context approach for adaptive and distributed GIS....Pages 121-133 Privacy versus national security: The impact of privacy law on the use of location technology for national security purposes....Pages 135-152 The Aggregation of Urban Building Clusters Based on the Skeleton Partitioning of Gap Space....Pages 153-170 Effects of Ground Surface Relief in 3D Spatial Analysis on Residential Environment....Pages 171-186 The gazetteer content model issue: Could Spatial Data Infrastructures provide it?....Pages 187-200 Estimating the costs of an SDI-based project....Pages 201-215 RIMapperWMS: a Web Map Service providing SVG maps with a built-in client....Pages 217-230 Definition and Implementation of an Active Web Map Service....Pages 231-245 Increasing the Fitness of OGC-Compliant Web Map Services for the Web 2.0....Pages 247-264 Extending the OpenGeospatials℗ Specification for Managing Discrete and Continuous Time Dependent Data....Pages 265-285 Spatial Data Management Aspects in Archaeological Excavation Documentation 1 ....Pages 287-302 Processing Mediated Geographic Queries: a Space Partitioning Approach....Pages 303-315 Towards a Mathematical Theory for Snapshot and Temporal Formal Ontologies....Pages 317-334 Space-contained conflict revision, for geographic information....Pages 335-347 Towards Spatial Reasoning in the Semantic Web: A Hybrid Knowledge Representation System Architecture....Pages 349-364 Geospatial Information Bottom-Up: A Matter of Trust and Semantics....Pages 365-387 Improving Spatial Data Usability By Capturing User Interactions....Pages 389-403 Improving the Usability of Spatial Information Products and Services....Pages 405-418 Characterising Straightness Qualitatively....Pages 419-433 Extending Geographic Data Modeling by Adopting Constraint Decision Table to Specify Spatial Integrity Constraints....Pages 435-454 A Compact Topological DBMS Data Structure For 3D Topography....Pages 455-471 Depth Cue of Occlusion Information as Criterion for the Quality of Annotation Placement in Perspective Views....Pages 473-486 Back Matter....Pages 487-488 This Book Presents A State-of-the-art Overview Of Ongoing Giscience Research That Has Been Presented At The 10th Conference Of The Association Of Geographic Information Laboratories For Europe (agile), Held In Aalborg, Denmark. Included Are 27 Fully Peer-reviewed Papers Not Only Covering Basic Giscience Research Themes, But Also Ongoing Research On Technological Advancements, As Well As Applied Research On Environmental Modeling And Management.