Developments in Spatial Data Handling

Plenary of Submitted Papers.- About Invalid, Valid and Clean Polygons.- 3D Geographic Visualization: The Marine GIS.- Local Knowledge Doesn’t Grow on Trees: Community-Integrated Geographic Information Systems and Rural Community Self-Definition.- Web GIS.- A Flexible Competitive Neural Network for Eliciting User’s Preferences in Web Urban Spaces.- Combining Heterogeneous Spatial Data From Distributed Sources.- Security for GIS N-tier Architecture.- Progressive Transmission of Vector Data Based on Changes Accumulation Model.- Elevation modelling.- An Efficient Natural Neighbour Interpolation Algorithm for Geoscientific Modelling.- Evaluating Methods for Interpolating Continuous Surfaces from Irregular Data: a Case Study.- Contour Smoothing Based on Weighted Smoothing Splines.- Flooding Triangulated Terrain.- Vagueness and Interpolation.- Vague Topological Predicates for Crisp Regions through Metric Refinements.- Fuzzy Modeling of Sparse Data.- Handling Spatial Data Uncertainty Using a Fuzzy Geostatistical Approach for Modelling Methane Emissions at the Island of Java.- Temporal.- A Visualization Environment for the Space-Time-Cube.- Finding REMO - Detecting Relative Motion Patterns in Geospatial Lifelines.- Indexing.- Spatial Hoarding: A Hoarding Strategy for Location-Dependent Systems.- Distributed Ranking Methods for Geographic Information Retrieval.- Representing Topological Relationships between Complex Regions by F-Histograms.- The Po-tree: a Real-time Spatiotemporal Data Indexing Structure.- Uncertainty.- Empirical Study on Location Indeterminacy of Localities.- Registration of Remote Sensing Image with Measurement Errors and Error Propagation.- Double Vagueness: Effect of Scale on the Modelling of Fuzzy Spatial Objects.- Area, Perimeter and Shape of Fuzzy Geographical Entities.- Generalisation.- Why and How Evaluating Generalised Data ?.- Road Network Generalization Based on Connection Analysis.- Continuous Generalization for Visualization on Small Mobile Devices.- Shape-Aware Line Generalisation With Weighted Effective Area.- Spatial Relationships.- Introducing a Reasoning System Based on Ternary Projective Relations.- A Discrete Model for Topological Relationships between Uncertain Spatial Objects.- Modeling Topological Properties of a Raster Region for Spatial Optimization.- Sandbox Geography - To learn from children the form of spatial concepts.- Urban Infrastructure.- Street Centreline Generation with an Approximated Area Voronoi Diagram.- Determining Optimal Critical Junctions for Real- time Traffic Monitoring for Transport GIS.- Collaborative Decision Support for Spatial Planning and Asset Management: IIUM Total Spatial Information System.- Navigation.- Automatic Generation and Application of Landmarks in Navigation Data Sets.- Towards a Classification of Route Selection Criteria for Route Planning Tools.- An Algorithm for Icon Labelling on a Real-Time Map.- Working with Elevation.- Semantically Correct 2.5D GIS Data - the Integration of a DTM and Topographic Vector Data.- Generalization of integrated terrain elevation and 2D object models.- An Image Analysis and Photogrammetric Engineering Integrated Shadow Detection Model.- Semantics and Ontologies.- Understanding Taxonomies of Ecosystems: a Case Study.- Comparing and Combining Different Expert Relations of How Land Cover Ontologies Relate.- Representing, Manipulating and Reasoning with Geographic Semantics within a Knowledge Framework.- Data Quality and Metadata.- A Framework for Conceptual Modeling of Geographic Data Quality.- Consistency Assessment Between Multiple Representations of Geographical Databases: a Specification-Based Approach.- Integrating structured descriptions of processes in geographical metadata.- Spatial Statistics.- Toward Comparing Maps as Spatial Processes.- Integrating computational and visual analysis for the exploration of health statistics.- Using Spatially Adaptive Filters to Map Late Stage Colorectal Cancer Incidence in Iowa.