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Geographic Information Science

9th International Conference, GIScience 2016, Montreal, QC, Canada, September 27-30, 2016, Proceedings

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  • © 2016

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  1. Jennifer A. Miller

    1. University of Texas at Austin , Austin, USA

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    1. University of California at Berkeley , Berkeley, USA

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    1. University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 9927)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2016, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in September 2016. The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as spatial algorithms; network analysis; spatial analysis; spatial methods; user-generated data and linked data; automated cartography and geovisualization.

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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Spatial Algorithms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Computing River Floods Using Massive Terrain Data

      • Cici Alexander, Lars Arge, Peder Klith Bøcher, Morten Revsbæk, Brody Sandel, Jens-Christian Svenning et al.
      Pages 3-17

    3. Partitioning Polygons via Graph Augmentation

      • Jan-Henrik Haunert, Wouter Meulemans
      Pages 18-33

    4. Hierarchical Prism Trees for Scalable Time Geographic Analysis

      • Carson J. Q. Farmer, Carsten Keßler
      Pages 34-47

  3. Network Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Mining Network Hotspots with Holes: A Summary of Results

      • Emre Eftelioglu, Yan Li, Xun Tang, Shashi Shekhar, James M. Kang, Christopher Farah
      Pages 51-67

    3. Distance-Constrained k Spatial Sub-Networks: A Summary of Results

      • KwangSoo Yang
      Pages 68-84

    4. GIScience Considerations in Spatial Social Networks

      • Dipto Sarkar, Renee Sieber, Raja Sengupta
      Pages 85-98

  4. Spatial Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. On Distortion of Raster-Based Least-Cost Corridors

      • Takeshi Shirabe
      Pages 101-113

    3. Model-Based Clustering of Social Vulnerability to Urban Extreme Heat Events

      • Joseph V. Tuccillo, Barbara P. Buttenfield
      Pages 114-129

    4. Representing the Spatial Extent of Places Based on Flickr Photos with a Representativeness-Weighted Kernel Density Estimation

      • Jiaoli Chen, Shih-Lung Shaw
      Pages 130-144

    5. Scaling Behavior of Human Mobility Distributions

      • Tuhin Paul, Kevin Stanley, Nathaniel Osgood, Scott Bell, Nazeem Muhajarine
      Pages 145-159

  5. Spatial Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. pFUTURES: A Parallel Framework for Cellular Automaton Based Urban Growth Models

      • Ashwin Shashidharan, Derek B. van Berkel, Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Ross K. Meentemeyer
      Pages 163-177

    3. From Data Streams to Fields: Extending Stream Data Models with Field Data Types

      • Qinghan Liang, Silvia Nittel, Torsten Hahmann
      Pages 178-194

    4. Point Partitions: A Qualitative Representation for Region-Based Spatial Scenes in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{2} \)

      • Joshua A. Lewis, Max J. Egenhofer
      Pages 195-209

    5. Fine Scale Spatio-Temporal Modelling of Urban Air Pollution

      • Xiaoxiao Liu, Stefania Bertazzon
      Pages 210-224

    6. Modeling Checkpoint-Based Movement with the Earth Mover’s Distance

      • Matt Duckham, Marc van Kreveld, Ross Purves, Bettina Speckmann, Yaguang Tao, Kevin Verbeek et al.
      Pages 225-239
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Texas at Austin , Austin, USA

    Jennifer A. Miller

  • University of California at Berkeley , Berkeley, USA

    David O'Sullivan

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison, USA

    Nancy Wiegand

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