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New In This Edition: This second edition of the Encyclopedia of GIS
includes 30% to 50% new content. It provides up-to-date information
on emerging topics such as spatial big data, smart-phone GIS, urban
computing and mobile recommender systems. It also expands the first
edition's rich set of GIS-related commercial and societal
applications such as geo-targeting, geo-fencing and understanding
climate changes, while enabling more comprehensive coverage of
classical GIS topics such as map projections, global positioning
systems and spatial cognition. The entries explain the key
software, data sets and processes used by geographers and
computational scientists. Additionally, the reference emphasizes
the role of GIS in business and mobile intelligence. By offering
more diversified GIS-related topics from theory and research than
most of the other available literature, the authors equip newcomers
to the field with principles as well as applications. With an
accessible breadth of content and intuitive A-Z organization, this
new edition of the encyclopedia is an invaluable reference for
newcomers to the field of GIS, as well as researchers, students,
developers and professionals who are interested in exploring this
new dynamic area. Praise For The First Edition: "The focus here,
however, is on the mathematical and computational aspects of GIS
... . This is very welcome to those practitioners who have been
less exposed to some of the mathematical and computational aspects
of GIS. This is also very welcome to the researcher or graduate
student within any of the interdisciplinary areas that use GIS. ...
I highly recommend it." (Pascal V. Calarco, ACM Computing Reviews,
November, 2008) "This single-volume reference work is a highly
welcome ... addition to the rapidly advancing field of geographic
information systems. Peer-reviewed entries from over 300
contributors cover 41 topical subfields, with an overall emphasis
on computational aspects of GIS. The volume is adequately
illustrated with 723 figures and 90 tables in black and white. A
full bibliography and concise list of entry terms are provided at
the back of the work. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended.
Upper-division geography students through professionals." (C. E.
Smith, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (11), 2008) "The encyclopedia is divided
into 41 fields, each one an important sub-area within GIS. ... the
editors' organization of the material and comprehensive and
systematic approach are superb and shall give students, eager
readers as well as researchers an understanding of the topics in
quite full depth and breadth. ... is lavishly illustrated with
figures, graphs and tables, the design and execution of which are
as perfect as the material they illustrate. ... it is sturdy and
opens out nicely for study and reference." (Current Engineering
Practice, 2008).
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of each aspect of
offshore operations including conventional methods of operations,
emerging technologies, legislations, health, safety and environment
impact of offshore operations. The book starts by coverage of
notable offshore fields across the globe and the statistics of
present oil production, covering all types of platforms available
along with their structural details. Further, it discusses
production, storage and transportation, production equipment,
safety systems, automation, storage facilities and transportation.
Book ends with common legislation acts and comparison of different
legislation acts of major oil/gas producing nations. The book is
aimed at professionals and researchers in petroleum engineering,
offshore technology, subsea engineering, and Explores the
engineering, technology, system, environmental, operational and
legislation aspects of offshore productions systems Covers most of
the subsea engineering material in a concise manner Includes
legislation of major oil and gas producing nations pertaining to
offshore operations (oil and gas) Incorporates case studies of
major offshore operations (oil and gas) accidents and lessons
learnt Discusses environment impact of offshore operations
An accessible guide to the ideas and technologies underlying such
applications as GPS, Google Maps, Pokemon Go, ride-sharing,
driverless cars, and drone surveillance. Billions of people around
the globe use various applications of spatial computing daily-by
using a ride-sharing app, GPS, the e911 system, social media
check-ins, even Pokemon Go. Scientists and researchers use spatial
computing to track diseases, map the bottom of the oceans, chart
the behavior of endangered species, and create election maps in
real time. Drones and driverless cars use a variety of spatial
computing technologies. Spatial computing works by understanding
the physical world, knowing and communicating our relation to
places in that world, and navigating through those places. It has
changed our lives and infrastructures profoundly, marking a
significant shift in how we make our way in the world. This volume
in the MIT Essential Knowledge series explains the technologies and
ideas behind spatial computing. The book offers accessible
descriptions of GPS and location-based services, including the use
of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and RFID for position determination out of
satellite range; remote sensing, which uses satellite and aerial
platforms to monitor such varied phenomena as global food
production, the effects of climate change, and subsurface natural
resources on other planets; geographic information systems (GIS),
which store, analyze, and visualize spatial data; spatial
databases, which store multiple forms of spatial data; and spatial
statistics and spatial data science, used to analyze
location-related data.
This book highlights some of the unique aspects of spatio-temporal
graph data from the perspectives of modeling and developing
scalable algorithms. The authors discuss in the first part of this
book, the semantic aspects of spatio-temporal graph data in two
application domains, viz., urban transportation and social
networks. Then the authors present representational models and data
structures, which can effectively capture these semantics, while
ensuring support for computationally scalable algorithms. In the
first part of the book, the authors describe algorithmic
development issues in spatio-temporal graph data. These algorithms
internally use the semantically rich data structures developed in
the earlier part of this book. Finally, the authors introduce some
upcoming spatio-temporal graph datasets, such as engine measurement
data, and discuss some open research problems in the area. This
book will be useful as a secondary text for advanced-level students
entering into relevant fields of computer science, such as
transportation and urban planning. It may also be useful for
researchers and practitioners in the field of navigational
algorithms.
This book highlights some of the unique aspects of spatio-temporal
graph data from the perspectives of modeling and developing
scalable algorithms. The authors discuss in the first part of this
book, the semantic aspects of spatio-temporal graph data in two
application domains, viz., urban transportation and social
networks. Then the authors present representational models and data
structures, which can effectively capture these semantics, while
ensuring support for computationally scalable algorithms. In the
first part of the book, the authors describe algorithmic
development issues in spatio-temporal graph data. These algorithms
internally use the semantically rich data structures developed in
the earlier part of this book. Finally, the authors introduce some
upcoming spatio-temporal graph datasets, such as engine measurement
data, and discuss some open research problems in the area. This
book will be useful as a secondary text for advanced-level students
entering into relevant fields of computer science, such as
transportation and urban planning. It may also be useful for
researchers and practitioners in the field of navigational
algorithms.
This book provides a collection of concepts, algorithms, and
techniques that effectively harness the power of Spatial Network
Big Data. Reading this book is a first step towards understanding
the immense challenges and novel applications of SNBD database
systems. This book explores these challenges via investigating
scalable graph-based query processing strategies and I/O efficient
storage and access methods. This book will be of benefit to
academics, researchers, engineers with a particular interest in
network database models, network query processing, and physical
storage models.
Emerging Spatial Big Data (SBD) has transformative potential in
solving many grand societal challenges such as water resource
management, food security, disaster response, and transportation.
However, significant computational challenges exist in analyzing
SBD due to the unique spatial characteristics including spatial
autocorrelation, anisotropy, heterogeneity, multiple scales and
resolutions which is illustrated in this book. This book also
discusses current techniques for, spatial big data science with a
particular focus on classification techniques for earth observation
imagery big data. Specifically, the authors introduce several
recent spatial classification techniques, such as spatial decision
trees and spatial ensemble learning. Several potential future
research directions are also discussed. This book targets an
interdisciplinary audience including computer scientists,
practitioners and researchers working in the field of data mining,
big data, as well as domain scientists working in earth science
(e.g., hydrology, disaster), public safety and public health.
Advanced level students in computer science will also find this
book useful as a reference.
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Geographic Information Science - 7th International Conference, GIScience 2012, Columbus, OH, USA, September 18-21, 2012, Proceedings (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Ningchuan Xiao, Mei-Po Kwan, Michael F. Goodchild, Shashi Shekhar
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th
International Conference on Geographic Information Science,
GIScience 2012, held in Columbus, OH, USA in September 2012. The 26
full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 57
submissions. While the traditional research topics are well
reflected in the papers, emerging topics that involve new research
hot-spots such as cyber infrastructure, big data, web-based
computing also occupy a significant portion of the volume.
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Database Systems for Advanced Applications - 21st International Conference, DASFAA 2016, Dallas, TX, USA, April 16-19, 2016, Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Shamkant B. Navathe, Weili Wu, Shashi Shekhar, Xiaoyong Du, Sean X. Wang, …
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This two volume set LNCS 9642 and LNCS 9643 constitutes the
refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on
Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2016, held in
Dallas, TX, USA, in April 2016. The 61 full papers presented were
carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 183 submissions.
The papers cover the following topics: crowdsourcing, data quality,
entity identification, data mining and machine learning,
recommendation, semantics computing and knowledge base, textual
data, social networks, complex queries, similarity computing, graph
databases, and miscellaneous, advanced applications.
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Database Systems for Advanced Applications - 21st International Conference, DASFAA 2016, Dallas, TX, USA, April 16-19, 2016, Proceedings, Part I (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Shamkant B. Navathe, Weili Wu, Shashi Shekhar, Xiaoyong Du, X.Sean Wang, …
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This two volume set LNCS 9642 and LNCS 9643 constitutes the
refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on
Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2016, held in
Dallas, TX, USA, in April 2016. The 61 full papers presented were
carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 183 submissions.
The papers cover the following topics: crowdsourcing, data quality,
entity identification, data mining and machine learning,
recommendation, semantics computing and knowledge base, textual
data, social networks, complex queries, similarity computing, graph
databases, and miscellaneous, advanced applications.
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Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases - 12th International Symposium, SSTD 2011, Minneapolis, MN, USA, August 24-26, 2011. Proceedings (Paperback)
Dieter Pfoser, Yufei Tao, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Mario A Nascimento, Mohamed Mokbel, …
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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th
International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD
2011, held in Minneapolis, USA, in August 2011. The 24 revised full
papers presented together with one keynote, 8 short papers, and 8
demonstration papers, were thoroughly reviewed and selected from a
total of 63 research submissions, 21 vision and challenges
submissions and 16 demonstration submissions. The papers are
organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery; spatial
networks; access methods; moving objects and sensor networks;
multidimensional query processing; and temporal and streaming data.
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