Geographic information retrieval encompasses important tasks including finding the location of a user, and locations relevant to their search queries. Web-based search engines rec...
The spatio-textual spreadsheet is a conventional spreadsheet where spatial attribute values are specified textually. Techniques are presented to automatically find the textually-s...
Hanan Samet, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Jon Sperling,...
High quality, artifact-free fitting a bathymetry (sea-floor) surface to very unevenly spaced depth data from ship tracklines is possible with ODETLAP (Overdetermined Laplacian Par...
Tsz-Yam Lau, W. Randolph Franklin, You Li, Zhongyi...
A common problem in moving object databases (MOD) is the reconstruction of a trajectory from a trajectory sample (i.e., a finite sequence of time-space points). A typical solution...
Alejandro A. Vaisman, Bart Kuijpers, Bart Moelans,...
Modern geographic databases can contain a large volume of data that need to be distributed to subscribed customers. The data can be modeled as a cube, where typical dimensions inc...
Many popular online services provide "local" or "yellow-pages" search, but none of them allow users to customize the search over user-specified data. Instead, ...
Naren Datha, Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Vibhuti S. ...
A route leads from a start location to a final destination and passes through geospatial entities that are picked according to search terms provided by the user. Each entity is pe...
Yaron Kanza, Roy Levin, Eliyahu Safra, Yehoshua Sa...
A parallel version of the plane sweep algorithm targeted towards the small number of processing cores available on commonly available multi-core systems is presented. Experimental...
With the recent advancements and wide usage of location detection devices, large quantities of data are collected by GPS and cellular technologies in the form of trajectories. Whi...
Marcos R. Vieira, Petko Bakalov, Vassilis J. Tsotr...
Map-matching is the process of aligning a sequence of observed user positions with the road network on a digital map. It is a fundamental pre-processing step for many applications...