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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Volume 2, Issue 3

September 2013 - 17 articles

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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,723 Views
20 Pages

23 September 2013

Web service is a technological solution for software interoperability that supports the seamless integration of diverse applications. In the vision of web service architecture, web services are described by the Web Service Description Language (WSDL)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
128 Citations
19,424 Views
19 Pages

A Suite of Tools for ROC Analysis of Spatial Models

  • Jean-François Mas,
  • Britaldo Soares Filho,
  • Robert Gilmore Pontius,
  • Michelle Farfán Gutiérrez and
  • Hermann Rodrigues

10 September 2013

The Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) is widely used for assessing the performance of classification algorithms. In GIScience, ROC has been applied to assess models aimed at predicting events, such as land use/cover change (LUCC), species distr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,566 Views
15 Pages

3 September 2013

Ubiquitous positioning provides continuous positional information in both indoor and outdoor environments for a wide spectrum of location based service (LBS) applications. With the rapid development of the low-cost and high speed data communication,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,668 Views
20 Pages

Globally, most weather-related damages are caused by thunderstorms. Besides floods, strong wind, and hail, one of the major thunderstorm ground effects is lightning. Therefore, lightning investigations, including detection, cluster identification, tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
10,089 Views
20 Pages

A Comparison of Precise Leveling and Persistent Scatterer SAR Interferometry for Building Subsidence Rate Measurement

  • Kirsi Karila,
  • Mika Karjalainen,
  • Juha Hyyppä,
  • Jarkko Koskinen,
  • Veikko Saaranen and
  • Paavo Rouhiainen

It is well known that the most accurate method to detect changes of height is the geodetic precise leveling method. Due to the high demand work and time needed for precise leveling alternative methods are studied to obtain high quality height informa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
12,507 Views
31 Pages

Semantic Interoperability of Sensor Data with Volunteered Geographic Information: A Unified Model

  • Mohamed Bakillah,
  • Steve H.L. Liang,
  • Alexander Zipf and
  • Jamal Jokar Arsanjani

The increasing availability of sensor devices has resulted in important volumes of sensor data, which has raised the issue of making these data fully discoverable and interpretable by applications and end-users. The idea of OGC Sensor Web Enablement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,272 Views
20 Pages

HCTNav: A Path Planning Algorithm for Low-Cost Autonomous Robot Navigation in Indoor Environments

  • Marco Pala,
  • Nafiseh Osati Eraghi,
  • Fernando López-Colino,
  • Alberto Sanchez,
  • Angel De Castro and
  • Javier Garrido

Low-cost robots are characterized by low computational resources and limited energy supply. Path planning algorithms aim to find the optimal path between two points so the robot consumes as little energy as possible. However, these algorithms were no...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,545 Views
17 Pages

Online geoprocessing gains momentum through increased online data repositories, web service infrastructures, online modeling capabilities and the required online computational resources. Advantages of online geoprocessing include reuse of data and se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,624 Views
24 Pages

Alpine Glaciology: An Historical Collaboration between Volunteers and Scientists and the Challenge Presented by an Integrated Approach

  • Laura Criscuolo,
  • Monica Pepe,
  • Roberto Seppi,
  • Gloria Bordogna,
  • Paola Carrara and
  • Francesco Zucca

European Alpine glaciology has a long tradition of studies and activities, in which researchers have often relied on the field work of some specialized volunteer operators. Despite the remarkable results of this cooperation, some problems in field da...

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ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. - ISSN 2220-9964