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Introduction To A New Geo-Referenced Street Level Content: 3d Geopano, Boram Yoon, Impyeong Lee

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Geospatial mash-up is to produce a new worthy value by combining geo-referenced contents and different kinds of service. Despite of its high popularity in aerial view contents such as Google Earth, it is hardly achieved especially in street level due to the poor georeferencing quality of the underlining street level contents. In this study we propose a new street-level georeferenced panorama image content, ‘3D GeoPano’. While the most existing contents provide only the location and orientation for each entire image not for each pixel, this new content is accurately georeferenced pixel by pixel so that one can derive 3D absolute …

Distributed Agents For Contextual Online Searches, Elizabeth-Kate Gulland, Simon Moncrieff, Geoff West

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As semantic web use and research blossoms, automated online searches - whether to answer a simple question, seek specific sensor readings, or investigate research in a particular domain - has raised a number of issues. Simple search tools cannot handle context-specific search problems, but specialist search tools have a narrow domain and applicability. Some online tools circumvent these problems by putting more filter controls into the hands of users, but this leads to more complex interfaces which can raise usability barriers. A distributed approach, where specialised search agents act autonomously to find contextualised information, can provide a useful compromise between …

Gis Oriented Service Optimization Tool For Fecal Sludge Collection, Mohammad Dalower Hossain, Sarawut Ninsawat, Shulaxan Sharma, Thammarat Koottatep, Yuttachai Sarathai

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In developing countries most of the urban dwellers don’t have access to sewer system. People are mostly using “onsite” systems such as septic tanks or pit latrines that need to be emptied periodically, as the densely built urban environment won’t allow new pits to be dug every time they fill up. In the conventional fecal sludge collection systems, authorities are collecting the sludge from house to house and dump on the plant. Fecal sludge collection system is different from traditional vehicle routing and even from solid waste collection system in terms of dynamic collection points, urgency of getting the service …

Crowd-2-Cloud – Remote Sensing Land Cover Verification With Crowd-Sourcing Data, Moataz Ahmed, Dai Huynh, Darshana Wickramasinghe, Tuong-Thuy Vu

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Nowadays, advanced remote sensing technologies provide huge amount of Earth Observation (EO) data timely. Growing quickly in terms of size and structure, EO data require a new way of handling and processing as it is considered big data. Cloud-computing platform proved to be a reliable and scalable platform that suits various user demands in remote sensing data processing. To verify the ambiguity of information derived solely from remote sensing, ground data is vital. The only way to keep pace with big remote sensing data is to exploit the crowdsourced data, which has been recently proposed elsewhere. In this study, we …

Leightweight Urban Computation Interchange (Luci) System, Lukas Treyer, Bernhard Klein, Reinhard König, Christine Meixner

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In this paper we introduce LUCI, a Leightweight Urban Calculation Interchange system, designed to bring the advantages of calculation and content co-ordination system to small planning and design groups by the means of an open source middle-ware.The middle-ware focuses on problems typical to urban planning and therefore features a geo-data repository as well as a job runtime administration, to coordinate simulation models and its multiple views.The described system architecture is accompanied by two exemplary use cases, that have been used to test and further develop our concepts and implementations.

Solar Energy Resource Assessment Using R.Sun In Grass Gis And Site Suitability Analysis Using Ahp For Groundmounted Solar Photovoltaic (Pv) Farm In The Central Luzon Region (Region 3), Philippines, Ben Hur Pintor, Eula Fae Sola, Justine Teves, Loureal Camille Inocencio, Ma. Rosario Concepcion Ang

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In the study, the solar energy resource in the Central Luzon Region (Region 3), Philippines was determined using r.sun – a topography-based solar radiation model implemented in GRASS GIS – and suitable sites for the installation of ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) farms were identified using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to determine the weights of different physical, environmental, socio-economic, risk, and constraint criteria. For the resource assessment, the inputs to r.sun used in the study consisted of freely available data that include: an SRTM (90m resolution) Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and monthly average Linke turbidity coefficients available from the SoDA …

Foss4g 2015 Full Conference Proceedings (Papers), Sanghee Shin

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

This Conference Proceedings is a collection of outstanding papers submitted to the Academic Program of the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), 14th to 19th September 2015 in Seoul, South Korea.

Volume Introduction Letter, Venkatesh Raghavan

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

This Conference Proceedings is a collection of outstanding papers submitted to the Academic Program of the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), 14th to 19th September 2015 in Seoul, South Korea.

Educating 21st Century Geospatial Technology Industryworkers With Open Source Software, Phillip Davis

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The global geospatial technology industry, in a study by UK-based Oxera commissioned by Google in January 2013, has been estimated at $150 USD billion to $270 USD billion per year ($110 billion euro to $199 billion euro). In a similar US-focused study, also commissioned by Google in 2013, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found the geospatial services industry employs approximately 500,000 people and generates around $75 (USD) billion in annual revenue ($55 billion euro). By any measure, the geospatial industry is large one, in both the US and globally. With this explosive growth, combined with the current generation of geospatial …

Foss4g 2014 Full Conference Proceedings (Papers), Barend Köbben

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This Conference Proceedings is a collection of outstanding papers and posters submitted to the Academic Program of the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), 08th to 13th September 2014 in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.

Volume Introduction Letter, Barend Köbben

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

This Conference Proceedings is a collection of outstanding papers and posters submitted to the Academic Program of the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), 08th to 13th September 2014 in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.

Volume Introduction Letter, Barend Köbben

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

This Conference Proceedings is a collection of outstanding papers submitted to the Academic Program of the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), 17th to 21st September 2013 in Nottingham, U.K.

Using Free And Open Source Gis To Automatically Create Standards-Based Spatial Metadata In Academia - First Investigations, Claire Ellul, Nart Tamash, Feng Xian, John Stuiver, Patrick Rickles

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The importance of understanding the quality of data used in any GIS operation has increased significantly as a result of the advent of Free and Open Source (FOSS) tools and Open Data, which in turn have encouraged non-specialists to make use of GIS. Metadata (data about data) traditionally provides a description of this quality information and permits data curation, but it is frequently deemed as complex to create and maintain. Additionally, it is generally stored separately from the data, leading to issues where updates to the data are not reflected in the metadata and to users not being aware that …

Foss4g 2013 Full Conference Proceedings (Papers), Barend Köbben

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

This Conference Proceedings is a collection of outstanding papers submitted to the Academic Program of the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), 17th to 21st September 2013 in Nottingham, U.K.

Foss4g 2016 Proceedings: Academic Program - Selected Papers And Posters, Franz-Josef Behr

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

This Conference Proceedings is a collection of selected papers and posters submitted to the Academic Program of the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G 2016), 24th to 26th August 2016 in Bonn, Germany.

Like in previous FOSS4G conferences on national and international level the academic papers and posters cover an extensive wide range of topics reflecting the contribution of the academia to this field by the development of open source software components, in the design of open standards, in the proliferation of web-based solutions, in the dissemination of the open principles important in science and …

Volume Introduction Letter, Franz-Josef Behr

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

This Conference Proceedings is a collection of selected papers and posters submitted to the Academic Program of the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G 2016), 24th to 26th August 2016 in Bonn, Germany. Again geospatial open source software was the focus of a well-attended international conference flanked by presentations on open standards and the open data movement, a meeting place for open communities.

Volume Introduction Letter, Charles M. Schweik, Mohammed Zia, Andy Anderson

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

This Conference Proceedings is a collection of outstanding papers and posters submitted to the Academic Program of the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), 14th to 19th August 2017 in Boston, U.S.A.

Foss4g 2017 Full Conference Proceedings (Papers And Posters), Charles M. Schweik, Mohammed Zia, Andy Anderson

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

This Conference Proceedings is a collection of outstanding papers and posters submitted to the Academic Program of the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), 14th to 19th August 2017 in Boston, U.S.A.