Geographic Information Science at the Heart of Europe

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vandenbroucke, Danny. (Editor), Bucher, Bňďicte. (Editor), Crompvoets, Joep. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography,
• Subjects: Geography.; Geographical information systems.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00615-4

For the seventh consecutive year, the AGILE promotes the publication of a book collecting high-level scientific papers from unpublished fundamental scientific research in the field of Geographic Information Science. As the agenda for Europe 2020 is currently being set, this book demonstrates how geo...

Table of Contents:

• User generated data, social network data
• What You See Is What You Map: Geometry-preserving Micro-mapping for Smaller Geographic Objects with mapIT
• Trust as a Proxy Measure for the Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information in the Case of OpenStreetMap
• A Thematic Approach to User Similarity Built on Geosocial Check-ins
• Using Data from Location Based Social Networks for Urban Activity Clustering
• Remote Sensing
• Automatic extraction of complex objects from land cover maps
• Automatic extraction of forests from historical maps based on unsupervised classification in the CIELab color space.