{"title":"Inversion modeling of chlorophyll-a concentration in water by multi-angle polarized reflection","authors":"Yang Han, Yunsheng Zhao, Yun-feng Lu, Yeqiao Wang","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293563","url":null,"abstract":"Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentration is an important indicator for detecting lake waters. In this paper we used the polarized reflection and multi-angle information to calculate the degree of polarization (DOP), then used the DOP to inverse the chl-a concentration in lake waters. We explored the modeling relationship between measured concentrations of Chl-a and the DOP. The F tests confirmed that variation of chl-a concentration had a significant effect on DOP. This study enlightens that multi-angle polarized reflection has a potential application in remote sensing for analyzing Chl-a concentration in water.","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":"122046742","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":"KIDGS: A geographical knowledge-informed digital gazetteer service","authors":"Yu Liu, Runqiang Li, Kaichen Chen, Yihong Yuan, Lingli Huang, Hao Yu","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293495","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design and implementation of a geographical knowledge-informed digital gazetteer service, KIDGS. It is a standard web service that provides unified XML-based access interfaces for various applications. At present, many digital gazetteer systems are implemented directly based on relational databases. In other words, place name entries are managed by data tables. However, several components in geographical knowledge, such as category and relation information, should be explicitly represented to support various queries. In KIDGS, we adopt OWL and Protégé to model the conceptual level of knowledge, and use PostGIS to store place names. This article also introduces an application developed based on KIDGS.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"8 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":"123319437","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":"Using mobile sensors for in-situ monitoring of debris flows in Taiwan","authors":"Hsiu-Yi Ko, Yao-Ming Fang, Ying Chang","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293405","url":null,"abstract":"The debris flow monitoring has been developed for many years in Taiwan. In the very beginning, the stable monitoring stations were set up for the monitoring mechanism. Then the mobile monitoring vehicles were developed later on in the middle stage of monitoring development. Now the emphasis of monitoring fields is on the application of mobile monitoring. There're 14 stable monitoring stations and 2 mobile monitoring vehicles were built since 2002, while the low-cost , widely distributable WSN monitoring modules are invented in 2007 via WSN technologies. A portable monitoring station is invented to construct a comprehensive monitoring network through widely-range equipped monitoring instruments. The monitoring network can collect the real time data and analyze the energy variation before, during, and after the debris flows occurred, and it helps to build up an alert mechanism. Meanwhile, all the monitoring or alert information is released from the announcement platform in OGC-SWE standard format to enhance the efficiency of decision making in disaster mitigation.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"19 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":"130561653","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":"Three dimensional Peer-2-Peer (3DP2P) networks","authors":"Clayton G. Thomas, D. Watkins, C. Scott","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5292845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5292845","url":null,"abstract":"The research provides a computational approach for dynamic allocation of geometric coordinates within a 3DP2P network topology. Deployment of Internet and mobile applications within the network will be achieved with the utilization of a 3D-XML peer node descriptor (3DP2P-XML). The 3DP2P-XML file descriptor generates and deploys enterprise beans, web services, and mobile clients. Boundary conditions and statistical data determine the peer node distribution. The application will demonstrate the procedure for generating network coordinates. The coordinates correlate IP and URL addresses to a metric space. The technique uses a Riemann sum to estimate the number of nodes, volume, and surface boundaries of the 3D-P2P mesh network. The resulting algorithm creates a minimum 3D spanning tree with coordinate indexes. The multi-hop network is visualized as a 3D bouquet of computer nodes.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"232 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":"115016050","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":"Research on the geometry rectification model of infrared image of HJ-1B satellite with sparse ground control points","authors":"Jingbo Chen, Zhongming Zhao, ChenYi Wang","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293483","url":null,"abstract":"Double-sided rotating scan mirror is adopted by infrared camera of HJ-1B satellite as its imaging mode. With the support of knowledge for infrared camera, satellite ephemeris file and attitude file, a rigorous sensor model for infrared camera of HJ-1B is constructed. Meanwhile, in consideration of the positioning error caused by inaccuracy of ephemeris and attitude, an error reduction model used to calculate corrections for exterior orientation elements using a few GCPs is established in this paper. Experiments show that positioning error is about six pixels when three GCPs are used to refine exterior orientation elements.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"288 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120884044","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":"Remote sensing drought monitoring under dense vegetation cover condition based on Perpendicular Drought Index","authors":"Zhe Li, Debao Tan, Yuanlai Cui, Sui Zhang","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293223","url":null,"abstract":"Regional drought brought by global climate changes is menacing directly human's food supply and survival environment, and it becomes a hotspot of many scientists and government administrations. Remote sensing has many advantages such as large land cover, high spatial resolution, short time interval, and convenient data acquisition, which makes remote sensing drought monitoring become an important research field. In the NIR(Near Infrared)-Red reflectance spectral feature space, if it is supposed that the spectral characteristic of bare soil conforms to the linear distribution, PDI(Perpendicular Drought Index) is established (Zhan, 2005; Abuduwasit, 2004). In order to verify the feasibility of PDI under dense vegetation cover condition, Hubei Zhanghe Irrigation System is selected as research area, PDI is calculated with ETM+ data, and 2–5cm soil moisture in-situ observation is used for the purpose of comparing with PDI. Result shows that 2–5 cm in-situ observation and PDI calculation displays basically the same curve trend, their coefficient is 0.76, and it is consistent with insitu measured drought indicator. To sum up, PDI can effectively reflect local land cover and water-heat combination, which achieves many advantages such as simple, practical, easy-to-use, versatility and universality. And it is successful to monitor regional drought under dense vegetation cover conditions.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"65 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":"134544881","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":"Internet-based GIS for the Canadian Analogue Research Network","authors":"M. Germain, M. Phaneuf","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293423","url":null,"abstract":"We present an Internet-based GIS to support analogue research activities in Canada through the Canadian Analogue Research Network. The proposed system manages all geospatial data concerning the analogue sites and shares information for the scientist community. The main use of the GIS is to help comparative studies between terrestrial analogue data and the Moon and Mars information.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"47 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":"133366033","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":"Dynamic modeling of urban population travel behavior based on data fusion of mobile phone positioning data and FCD","authors":"Jinxing Hu, Wenjing Cao, Jun Luo, Xiaomin Yu","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293222","url":null,"abstract":"Population travel behavior modeling is a fundamental process in transportation planning and in the management of urban transportation systems. It plays a pivotal role in developing strategies that help alleviate urban traffic congestion. Most existing studies mainly focus on the theories and methodologies of travel behavior, but the development of methods addressing issues such as how to access large volumes of high-quality and spatial-temporal urban population travel data, implement dynamic modeling of travel behavior, and relevant experimental studies, does not receive adequate attention and has less research results. Urban population's dynamic trajectory can be represented and obtained through mobile phone positioning data and taxi GPS floating car data (FCD). By data fusion and traffic spatial analysis of these two type data sources, the urban population travel behavior is dynamic modeled, which is based on a GIS-based integrated information processing and analysis platform.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"17 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":"133667621","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":"The effect of healthy food accessibility on childhood obesity","authors":"Lauren Rosenshein, N. Waters","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293562","url":null,"abstract":"The United States is facing an epidemic of childhood obesity, with obesity rates amongst children more than double what they were just 20 years ago. At the same time, research on the accessibility of healthy foods, especially in urban areas, has shown that certain populations are facing major barriers to a healthy diet. While there has been research on both the health consequences of childhood obesity and the deterioration of accessibility to healthy foods, there has been relatively little research on the relationship between the two problems. This paper will use a GIS based cluster analysis of Los Angeles County school level data on percentages of overweight 5th graders to expose clusters of overweight children in the area. Each school will be associated with a school polygon, which will represent the geographical area that the school serves. These school polygons will be used in the cluster analysis to locate areas with low accessibility to healthy foods. Several indicators will be used to establish an accessibility value, including distance to closest supermarket and the number of supermarkets within walking distance. The relationship between clusters of overweight 5th graders and low supermarket accessibility will then be examined. The results of the analysis indicate that a negative relationship exists between distance from the closest supermarket and childhood overweight. These results indicate the need for further research focusing on a smaller, more homogenous study area, a different measure of accessibility, or perhaps a regression technique that allows for spatial variation of the regression coefficients such as geographically weighted regression.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"265 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":"116183161","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":"An evaluation of potential natural disaster response using the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)","authors":"M. Bowman, Kyle Foster, M. Wilkerson","doi":"10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5292934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5292934","url":null,"abstract":"As the 21st century begins, the number of natural disasters effecting populated areas has seen a dramatic increase. The cause of this increase can be attributed to a variety of factors including global climatic change, an increase in global population, and a related increase in the use of lands more vulnerable to natural disaster events. Timely monitoring and warning of natural disaster events is critical to our ability to respond to and recover from these disasters. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) is the next generation of environmental satellites to study the Earth and its climate. It will provide a significant increase in the ability to monitor and respond to disaster events by increasing temporal resolution and decreasing the timeline required for information to be accessible to ground stations. This paper will present an introduction to NPOESS and discuss its potential utility in natural disaster monitoring and response efforts in combination with state of the art data mining techniques.","PeriodicalId":121212,"journal":{"name":"2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics","volume":"8 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":"131838620","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}