The European Information Society: Taking Geoinformation Science One Step Further (lecture Notes In Geoinformation And Cartography)

The Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE) was established in early 1998 to promote academic teaching and research on GIS at the European level. AGILE seeks to ensure that the views of the geographic information teaching and research community are fully represented in the discussions that take place on future European - search agendas and it also provides a permanent scientific forum where geographic information researchers can meet and exchange ideas and - periences at the European level. In 2007 AGILE provided - for the first time since its existence - a book constituting a collection of scientific papers that were submitted as fu- papers to the annual AGILE conference and went through a competitive and thorough review process. Published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography this first edition was well received within AGILE and within the European Geoinformation Science com- nity as a whole. Thus, the decision was easily made to establish a Springer th Volume for the 11 AGILE conference held 2008 in Girona, Spain, and led to what you now hold in your hands. Front Matter....Pages I-XII Assessing Stand and Data Variability Using Airborne Laser Scanner....Pages 1-26 Model Based Optimization of Mobile Geosensor Networks....Pages 27-49 Lifting Imprecise Values....Pages 51-66 GeoSR: Geographically Explore Semantic Relations in World Knowledge....Pages 67-78 A Study on the Cognitive Plausibility of SIM-DL Similarity Rankings for Geographic Feature Types....Pages 79-94 A Geospatial Implementation of a Novel Delineation Clustering Algorithm Employing the K-means ....Pages 95-113 DBSCAN-MO: Density-Based Clustering among Moving Obstacles....Pages 115-134 A Metric of Compactness of Urban Change Illustrated to 22 European Countries....Pages 135-157 Advanced Data Mining Method for Discovering Regions and Trajectories of Moving Objects: “Ciconia Ciconia” Scenario....Pages 159-179 Mining Spatio-Temporal Data at Different Levels of Detail....Pages 181-200 Automated Boundary Creation: Atomic Small Areas in Ireland....Pages 201-224 Climate-Change Adaptations in Land-Use Planning; A Scenario-Based Approach....Pages 225-240 Quantifying and Analysing Neighbourhood Characteristics Supporting Urban Land-Use Modelling....Pages 241-259 Interactive Multi-Perspective Views of Virtual 3D Landscape and City Models....Pages 261-282 Spatial Decision Support in the Pedagogical Area: Processing Travel Stories to Discover Itineraries Hidden Beneath the Surface....Pages 283-299 Ownership Definition and Instances Integration in Highly Coupled Spatial Data Infrastructures....Pages 301-321 Spatial Data Integrability and Interoperability in the Context of SDI....Pages 323-337 Information Services to Support Disaster and Risk Management in Alpine Areas....Pages 339-358 User Performance in Interaction with Web-GIS: A Semi-Automated Methodology Using Log-Files and Streaming-Tools....Pages 359-378 Back Matter....Pages 379-399 ....Pages 401-413 "This book comprises innovative research presented at the 11th Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE), held in 2008 in Girona, Spain. The scientific papers cover a variety of fundamental research topics as well as applied research in Geoinformation Science including measuring spatiotemporal phenomena, quality and semantics, spatiotemporal analysis and modelling, spatiotemporal decision support, and spatial information infrastructures." "The book is aimed at researchers, practitioners, and students who work in various fields and disciplines related to Geoinformation Science and GI technology."--BOOK JACKET