Geographic Information Science at the Heart of Europe

Book Overview

User generated data, social network data.- What You See Is What You Map: Geometry-preserving Micro-mapping for Smaller Geographic Objects with mapIT.- Trust as a Proxy Measure for the Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information in the Case of OpenStreetMap.- A Thematic Approach to User Similarity Built on Geosocial Check-ins.- Using Data from Location Based Social Networks for Urban Activity Clustering.- Remote Sensing.- Automatic extraction of complex objects from land cover maps.- Automatic extraction of forests from historical maps based on unsupervised classification in the CIELab color space.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319032801
• ISBN13: 9783319032801
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"