Naive Geography’s premise “Topology matters, metric refines” calls for metric properties that provide opportunities for finergrained distinctions than the purely qualitative...
In this paper, we formalize the novel concept of Constrained Reverse k-Nearest Neighbor (CRkNN) search on mobile objects (clients) performed at a central server. The CRkNN query c...
While conventional GIS maps have long been a privileged way for the integration and diffusion of geographical information, novel forms of representation and description of urban ...
Jean-Marie Le Yaouanc, Eric Saux, Christophe Clara...
Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities to fully i...
We propose an automatic approach to tree detection from aerial imagery. First a pixel-level classifier is trained to assign a {tree, non-tree} label to each pixel in an aerial im...
Time geography uses space-time volumes to represent the possible locations of a mobile agent over time in a x-y-t space. Space-time volumes are qualitative statements, enabling qu...
This paper presents a method for automatically converting raw GPS traces from everyday vehicles into a routable road network. The method begins by smoothing raw GPS traces using a...
We envision participatory texture documentation (PTD) as a process in which a group of users (dedicated individuals and/or general public) with camera-equipped mobile phones parti...
Cyrus Shahabi, Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Houtan Shi...