Advances in Spatial Data Handling and Analysis, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Select Papers from the 16th IGU Spatial Data Handling Symposium
Advances in Geographic Information Science Series

This book contains a selection of papers from the 16th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH), the premier long-running forum in geographical information science. This collection offers readers exemplary contributions to geospatial scholarship and practice from the conference's 30th anniversary.

Introduction.- Alternative GIS (alt.gis) and the six senses of the new mind.- Enriching Navigation Instructions to Support the Formation of Mental Maps.- A Classification of User Contributions on the Participatory Geoweb.- Identifying Locally- And Globally-Distinctive Urban Place Descriptors from Heterogeneous User-Generated Content.- Identifying Optimal Study Areas and Spatial Aggregation Units for Point-based VGI from Multiple Sources.- A General Framework For Event Detection From Social Media.- The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem in Identifying Activity Centers Using Mobile Phone Positioning Data and Point of Interest Data.- Mining Co-Location Patterns between Network Spatial Phenomena.- How to model roads in Open Street Map? A method for evaluating the fitness-for-use of the network for navigation.- Development of a nationwide road change database for the U.S. in the post-recession years (2008–2012).- Revising the Self-Best-Fit Strategy for Stroke Generation.- A Spatio-temporal Decision Support Framework for Large Scale Logistics Distribution in the Metropolitan Area.- Local Absolute Vertical Accuracy Computation of Wide-Coverage Digital Terrain Models.- Analyzing the influence of ethnic composition and immigrant residents on the spatial distribution of violent crime.- An Informed Virtual Geographic Environment Enhanced with Qualitative and Quantitative Information for the Geosimulations of Zoonosis Propagation.- A Stochastic Method for the Generation of Optimized Building Layouts Respecting Urban Regulations.- Spatial Variation of Privacy Measured Through Individual Uniqueness Based on Simple US Demographics Data.- Monte Carlo-Based Analysis of the Effect of Positional and Thematic Uncertainties on Biodiversity Models.- Examining Tail Distributions Of Moran’s I Statistic Through Intensive Simulations.- Index.

The scope and size of this book offers an outstanding resource for institutions seeking to stay up-to-date with publishing on GIS-related issues Selected papers are of interest to a broad range of researchers and students working on GIScience, cartography, visualization and geographic data analysis and modeling The 16th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH) continues the longest-running GIS-related conference Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras