Scale is a central concept in the geographical sciences and is an intrinsic property of many
spatial systems. It also serves as an essential thread in the fabric of many other physical and …

A Geographic Information System (GIS) populated with disparate data sources has multiple
and different representations of the same real-world object. Often, the type of information in …

The shortcomings of a popular linear parameter-varying (LPV) gain-scheduling design
approach are demonstrated by a simple counter-example. It is shown that, for a very general …

The extraction of objects from large-scale historical maps has been examined in several
studies. With the aim to research urban changes over time, semi-automated and transferable …

Uncertain regions can be represented as having broad boundaries (BBRs) and their
topological relations can be modeled by the extended 9-intersection. In order to satisfy the …

Differences between two maps can be quantified using any cartometric summary; of these,
feature-based statistics are potentially more relevant than pixel-based statistics. Distributions …

Geometric similarity plays an important role in geographic information retrieval, map
matching, and data updating. Many approaches have been developed to calculate the …

Current models of direction relations are not designed to describe direction information
inside the Minimum Bounding Rectangle (MBR) of a reference region. Thus, the direction …

In recent years, Bayesian networks using unsupervised extracted image features have been
applied in many remote sensing information mining systems to enable semantic-sensitive …

The amount and availability of high-quality geo-spatial image data, such as digital satellite
and aerial photographs, is increasing dramatically. Task-based management of such visual …