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. Table of Contents......Page 14 Forest Stand Volume of Sitka Spruce Plantations in Britain: Can Existing Laser Scanning Methods Based on the Conventional One Provide Better Results, a Comparison of Two Approaches......Page 17 Assessing Stand and Data Variability Using Airborne Laser Scanner......Page 43 Model Based Optimization of Mobile Geosensor Networks......Page 67 Evaluation of the Geometric Accuracy of Automatically Recorded 3D – City Models Compared to GIS-Data......Page 83 Lifting Imprecise Values......Page 95 GeoSR: Geographically Explore Semantic Relations in World Knowledge......Page 111 A Study on the Cognitive Plausibility of SIM-DL Similarity Rankings for Geographic Feature Types......Page 130 A Geospatial Implementation of a Novel Delineation Clustering Algorithm Employing the K-means......Page 150 DBSCAN-MO: Density-Based Clustering among Moving Obstacles......Page 174 A Metric of Compactness of Urban Change Illustrated to 22 European Countries......Page 196 Advanced Data Mining Method for Discovering Regions and Trajectories of Moving Objects: "Ciconia Ciconia" Scenario......Page 216 Mining Spatio-Temporal Data at Different Levels of Detail......Page 240 Automated Boundary Creation: Atomic Small Areas in Ireland......Page 256 Climate-Change Adaptations in Land-Use Planning; A Scenario-Based Approach......Page 276 Quantifying and Analysing Neighbourhood Characteristics Supporting Urban Land-Use Modelling......Page 298 Interactive Multi-Perspective Views of Virtual 3D Landscape and City Models......Page 316 Scenario-Based Spatial Decision Support for Network Infrastructure Design......Page 338 Grouping of Optimized Pedestrian Routes for Multi-Modal Route Planning: A Comparison of Two Cities......Page 354 Spatial Decision Support in the Pedagogical Area: Processing Travel Stories to Discover Itineraries Hidden Beneath the Surface......Page 374 Spatial Information Infrastructures......Page 394 Ownership Definition and Instances Integration in Highly Coupled Spatial Data Infrastructures......Page 416 Information Services to Support Disaster and Risk Management in Alpine Areas......Page 430 User Performance in Interaction with Web-GIS: A Semi-Automated Methodology Using Log-Files and Streaming-Tools......Page 448 G......Page 460 S......Page 461 X......Page 462 "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 This book comprises innovative research presented at the 11 th 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.