Advances in Spatial Data Handling and GIS
Subtitle: 14th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling
By: edited by Anthony G.O. Yeh, Wenzhong Shi, Yee Leung, Chenghu Zhou
Contributors: Shi, Wenzhong; Liang, Yi; Zhou, Chenghu; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9783642259265
Subjects: Image and Speech Processing Signal; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Remote sensing; Geography; Geographic information systems; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry
Description: This book provides a cross-section of cutting-edge research areas being pursued by researchers in spatial data handling and geographic information science (GIS). It presents selected papers on the advancement of spatial data handling and GIS in digital cartography, geospatial data integration, geospatial database and data infrastructures, geospatial data modeling, GIS for sustainable development, the interoperability of heterogeneous spatial data systems, location-based services, spatial knowledge discovery and data mining, spatial decision support systems, spatial data structures and algorithms, spatial statistics, spatial data quality and uncertainty, the visualization of spatial data, and web and wireless applications in GIS.