{"title":"Enterprise spatial data deployment strategies in a global engineering environment","authors":"Tracy McLane, Yongmin Yan","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293424","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the challenges faced by large engineering firms in organizing and analyzing vast amounts of diverse geospatial data to support complex engineering projects worldwide. For Bechtel, the implementation of an Enterprise GIS has greatly facilitated spatial data sharing and utilization, but has required much forethought and planning in the architectural design, standards and tools required to deploy and maintain such information in a global work environment. With the GIS technical discipline and spatial data being a relatively new centralized resource within the company, and given the great variety of CAD, GIS and other data sources and formats that are involved in supporting Bechtel projects in its five Global Business Units (GBUs), the issues of data interoperability, data model standardization, reliability, security, and scalability continue to be central to the implementation and deployment strategies being adopted for the company.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127017507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On geo-social network services","authors":"Qian Huang, Yu Liu","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293492","url":null,"abstract":"A social network service focuses on building and maintaining of social networks for communities. Although geographic information plays an important role in daily life, it is not widely used in current social network services. Some geographic information websites ignore the social network building mechanism, while some social network sites with geographic features make little use of geographic information except for display. As a result, we propose a geo-social network service for individuals building and managing social network online. Users can define geographic information, such as location, with a place name and a corresponding coordinate-based object, which can be called a geo-Tag. The system can help users find appropriate persons to make friends with, according to the similarity among geo-Tags from different users. Furthermore, information from World Wide Web related to a geo-Tag can be provided to each user with the help of geographic information retrieval techniques.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130657759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. O'Neil-Dunne, Keith C. Pelletier, Sean MacFaden, A. Troy, J. Grove
{"title":"Object-based high-resolution land-cover mapping","authors":"J. O'Neil-Dunne, Keith C. Pelletier, Sean MacFaden, A. Troy, J. Grove","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293435","url":null,"abstract":"There has been a marked increase in availability of high-resolution remotely-sensed datasets over the past eight years. The ability to efficiently extract accurate and meaningful land-cover information from these datasets is crucial if the full potential of these datasets is to be harnessed. Land-cover datasets, particularly high-resolution ones, must be statistically accurate and depict a realistic representation of the landscape if they are to be used by decision makers and trusted by the general public. Furthermore, if such datasets are to be accessible and relevant, mechanisms must exist that facilitate cost-effective and timely production. Object-based image analysis (OBIA) techniques offer the greatest potential for generating accurate and meaningful land-cover datasets in an efficient manner. They overcome the limitations of traditional pixel-based classification methods by incorporating not only spectral data but also spatial and contextual information, and they offer substantial efficiency gains compared to manual interpretation. Drawing on our experience in applying OBIA techniques to high-resolution data, we believe any automated approach to land-cover mapping must: 1) effectively replicate the human image analyst; 2) incorporate datasets from multiple sources; and 3) be capable of processing large datasets. To meet this functionality, an operational OBIA system should: 1) employ expert systems; 2) support vector and raster datasets; and 3) leverage enterprise computing architecture.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132383607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Earth observation and ecological security: An integrated multidisciplinary approach towards a regional inventory and monitoring","authors":"Yeqiao Wang, Zheng-fang Wu, Jiang Feng, Xing Yuan, Hongyan Zhang, Jiquan Zhang, Jia-wei Xu","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293501","url":null,"abstract":"Ecological security depends on the balance between human demands and actions in consumption and alteration of available resource base and the sustainability, vulnerability and resilience of land systems that provide the services. Any type of significant break down of the equilibrium will threat the ecological security of a particular region or a broader spatial scale. This is among particular interests for regions with sensitive ecosystems and ecotones, with trans-boundary and cross-border movements through water and air systems and activities by human and other species. We illustrate a multidisciplinary approach that integrates Earth observation data and ground-based geographical and ecological studies for inventory and monitoring of the ecological security issues in the Changbai Mountain geoecoregion in the Northeast Asia.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132391479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geospatial Information semantic retrieval algorithm Research based on geo-ontology","authors":"Wei Liu, Yunyan Du, Rulin Xiao","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293550","url":null,"abstract":"spatial information retrieval which is mainly catalog service based on metadata is the foundation of spatial information sharing. Today's information retrieval methods in catalog service are typically limited to keyword searches or matches of sub-strings, which do not meet user's retrieval demand. This paper presents a semantic similarity degree algorithm, in which geo-ontology is compared from concept of the hierarchical structure similarity degree and property similarity degree to adjust the relations of concept. Firstly, overall evaluating the geo-ontology concept hierarchical structure similarity degree and attribute similarity degree; secondly, the semantic similarity degree was calculated as the basis for spatial information retrieval; In the end, the retrieval algorithm was applied in the “Ocean Grid Portal”, the retrieval results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the semantic similarity degree retrieval algorithm.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128139898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel feature ranking modelling in GIS context: Addressing complexity and cost issues","authors":"Alberto Gemelli, C. Diamantini, D. Potena","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293555","url":null,"abstract":"nowadays, there is the trend to carry out decisions and analysis on geospatial data by a massive computational approach. The amount of geospatial information available is increasing exponentially as result of the increasing interoperability between informative systems. In a multiplicity of applications and services spatial decision is carried out to pursue business goals, often without involving experts in geography. The informative systems have an increasing autonomous decisional capability on information selection and analysis. The demand is to have systems that require only an input goal, and produces decisions that humans can understand and integrate with their own decisions. In this paper it is proposed an automatic method of feature ranking, which can sort a heterogeneous set of features by their importance in accomplishing an analytical goal. This method produces a rank model that helps to select the minimal set of features needed to pursue a goal with a wanted accuracy or resources involvement. This feature ranking is expected to supports fundamental decisional making in elaborating geospatial data. The method is based on data mining algorithms; the obtained rank model appears to be spatially scalable and fits well to human form of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131873280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparing of groundwater maps by using Geographical Information System","authors":"A. Najafabadi","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293097","url":null,"abstract":"For a sustainable irrigation, it is necessary to monitor and evaluate fluctuations of groundwater level and salinity. In this study WATMAPGIS (creating of the groundWATer MAPs using Geographical Information System)software, which was prepared by in order to create groundwater observation maps on environment of ArcInfo GIS software, will be presented. program, by using groundwater map that have been created by State Hydraulic Works of Turkey (SHW)up to now and created by hand, is capable to create different kinds of groundwater maps automatically such as; Depth-to-Watertable (Isobath) Map in Intensive Irrigation Season(IMII), Critical Highest Isobath Map(CHIM), Critical Lowest Isobath Map(CLIM), Electrical Conductivity Map (ECM), Water-table Contour Map(WCM) and Seasonal Probable Problematic Areas Map(PAM). By using WATMAPGIS program, groundwater monitoring results can be mapped and made questionable rapidly. thus, fluctuations of groundwater on a monthly basis can be rapidly displayed.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"542 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134180202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvement of an aerodynamic roughness model with meteorological measurements and TM image","authors":"Yanlian Zhou, Xiaomin Sun, W. Ju","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293452","url":null,"abstract":"Aerodynamic roughness length (z0) is one of the main parameters for describing aerodynamic characteristics and turbulence exchange of underlying surfaces. It also plays a very important role in land surface fluxes simulation and atmospheric boundary layer studies. In fluxes and atmospheric numerical simulation models, z0 is usually considered as a simple parameter related to rough elements, while actually z0 is the result of aerodynamic and thermal factors and rough elements. Some researchers on z0 established a model to calculate effective roughness at TM pixel scale. But in the model, the length of the fetch is simply considered as 100 times of the highest measuring height, which results in much uncertainty of the model. With the development of eddy covariance observations and the footprint theory, fetch could be determined with more accurate footprint model. This paper aims to make an improvement for the model basing on footprint model, and clarify the relationship between z0 and air temperature, wind speed and geometric roughness. Firstly meteorological data in two different levels was obtained to calculate z0 and the calculated z0 was considered as the real value, and then the fetch length was calculated by FSAM footprint model. Secondly LAI was retrieved from TM image to calculate geometric roughness. Thirdly drag coefficient was taken into the roughness calculation model, and then a roughness calculation model was established with footprint model and LAI, vegetation height, atmospheric stratifications and drag coefficient. The result indicated that z0 is the function of thermal and aerodynamic factors, and the reason for roughness dynamic was interpreted thoroughly. The quantitative relationship between rough elements and aerodynamic and thermal factors is clarified, and a more accurate model for retrieving z0 at TM pixel scale could be established with the fetch determined by footprint.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"151 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132247123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvement and optimization of Thiessen polygon method boundary treatment program","authors":"Qing Zhou, Gang Liu, Zhiting Zhang","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293458","url":null,"abstract":"As an important method for the evaluation of quantity of area rainfall, Thiessen polygon method is widely applied because of its high calculation accuracy and fast computation. The calculation of Thiessen polygon method is simple because only area data of sample point is needed. When dataset is stable, accuracy of Thiessen polygon method is higher than the arithmetic average method. But there are still problems, for example boundary treatment and efficiency of Thiessen polygon method.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124052840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Land use allocation optimization towards sustainable development based on genetic algorithm","authors":"Cao Kai, Huang Bo, Zhao Qing, Wang Shengxiao","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5292899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5292899","url":null,"abstract":"An elitist genetic algorithm was used to find Pareto-optimal solutions for land use allocation with multiple objectives and constraints from the concepts of sustainable development. Plans were judged with regard to economic development, the environment and the social equality. A multi-objective fitness function was used. The genetic algorithm offers the possibility of efficiently searching over tens of thousands of plans for a tradeoff sets of non-dominated plans. In this research, the optimization includes not only the general objectives but also the spatial objectives focusing on the compactness, compatibility and accessibility. Further, I demonstrated a real world application of the model to land use allocation optimization in Tongzhou located in the east of Beijing. The results show that GA based land use allocation optimization is a promising and useful method for generating land use alternatives for further consideration in land use allocation decision-making.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127801350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}