GeoComputation Conference Proceedings

 

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on GeoComputation
National Centre for Geocomputation,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Eire
3-5 September 2007

Sponsored by Science Foundation Ireland; NUI Maynooth; Elsevier; Fáilte Ireland; and the Glenroyal Hotel.

The following papers were first published on CD-ROM. Produced by: Urška Demšar. Publisher: "GeoComputation CD-ROM". [original programme by theme (pdf)]

 

Papers
  Guided Soil Sampling for Enhanced Analysis of Georeferenced Sensor Based Data
V.I. Adamchuk, D.B. Marx, A.T. Kerby, A.K. Samal, L.K. Soh, R.B Ferguson and C.S. Wortmann

 

  The geo-attribute space: a general space-time-property representation
O.Ahlqvist

 

  MultiAgent GeoSimulation of human behaviors in micro-scale geographic environments: The case of the shopping behavior in a mall
W.Ali and B.Moulin

 

  Spatial Modeling and Assessment of the Interaction between Modern and Heritage Urban Landscapes with GIS - A case study of Irbid city, Jordan
S.Al-kheder, N.Hadad, L.Fakhoury and S.Baqaen

 

  Implementing Visual Analytics Methods for Massive Collections of Movement Data
G. Andrienko and N. Andrienko

 

  Advanced cartogram construction using a constraint based framework
D.Andrieu, C.Kaiser, A.Ourednik and J.Lévy:

 

  Multi-agent modelling of whale-watching excursions in the Saguenay St. Lawrence Marine Park (SSLMP) in Quebec, Canada
Sk.M.Anwar, L.Parrott and D.Marceau

 

  The Geographical Analog Engine: Weighted Euclidean and Semantic Similarity Measures for U.S. Cities
T.Banchuen

 

  The breaking points in the “green corridors” due to new Master Plan of Rome
B. Barboni and U. Schiavoni

 

  Parking in the City: The Model as a Tool for Policy Evaluation
I.Benenson, K.Martens and S.Birfir

 

  Representing Complex Adaptive Spatial Systems
D.Bennett and W.Tang:

 

  The Little Algorithm that Grew: Scaling the Morphological Image Compositing Algorithm to meet the Challenges of Processing Large Image Data Sets
C.Bielski, J.Grazzini and P.Soille

 

  Spatial Distribution of Mountain Pine Beetle in the Morice Timber Supply Area in Western British Columbia between 1995 and 2002
M.Biesiada, M-J.Fortin and T.Nelson

 

  Cumulative Viewshed Analysis using GRID Computing
J.Blum, K.J.Turner and S.Winterbottom

 

  GIS and geostatistics for modelling urban times in neighbouring border cities
G.Borruso, V.Iacoviello and A.Porceddu

 

  Path Estimation from GPS Tracks
C.Brunsdon

 

  The need for spatial uncertainty in climate data: an example from west African Sahelian rainfall (1930-1990)
A.Chappell and C.T.Agnew

 

  Uncovering the Secrets of Rare Species: Can Community Level Modelling Help?
B.S.Chatfield

 

  Estimating Light Pollution in Suburban Areas with complex Topography
C.Chalkias and S.Kalogirou

 

  The Support Vector Machine for Nonlinear Spatio-Temporal Regression
T. Cheng , J. Wang and X. Li

 

  Multi-Criteria Evaluation and Least Cost Path Analysis for Optimal Haulage Routing in Open-Pit Mines
Y.S.Choi, H.D.Park and C.Sunwoo

 

  Using Image Moment Invariants to Distinguish Classes of Geographical Shapes
J. F. Conley, I. J. Turton and M. N. Gahegan

 

  Unsupervised Classification of Submarine Landslides
J.A.Corter and P.L.Guth

 

  Dual-frequency GPS survey for validation of a regional DTM and for the generation of local DTM data for sea-level rise modelling in an estuarine Salt Marsh
S.Coveney, S.Fotheringham, M.Charlton and J.Sweeney

 

  Application of Geographically Weighted Regression to a 19-year set of house price data in London to calibrate local hedonic price models
R.Crespo, S.Fotheringham and M.Charlton

 

  Key Challenges in Agent-Based Modelling for Geo-Spatial Simulation
A.Crooks, C.Castle and M.Batty

 

  A Local Regression Analysis of Irish Farm Census Data
C.Crowley and J.Walsh

 

  A genetic algorithm for spatiotemporal cluster detection and analysis
D.Dai and T.J.Oyana

 

  Employing agents to develop integrated urban models - numerical results from residential mobility experiments
O.Devisch, T.Arentze, A.Borgers and H.Timmermans

 

  Network-Based Kernel Density Estimation for Home Range Analysis
J.A. Downs and M.W. Horner

 

  Embedding spatial agents into irregular cellular automata models of urban land use change to improve scenario exploration and decision making
S. Dragicevic

 

  Modelling Changing Hospital Service Accessibility in Ireland 1999-2006
R.Foley and M.Charlton

 

  On the use of geodesic distances for spatial interpolation
J.Grazzini, P.Soille and C.Bielski

 

  Grid Enabling Geographically Weighted Regression
D.J.Grose, R.Harris, C.Brundson and D.Kilham

 

  Quantification and classification of urban change patterns
A.Hagen-Zanker

 

  Land-use modelling in a transnational context
H.S.Hansen

 

  Modelling school catchments, choices and ethnic segregation: a geocomputational approach
R.Harris

 

  Geostatistical modelling of topography using auxiliary maps
T.Hengl, B.Bajat, H.I.Reuter and D.Blagojevic

 

  Estimating hydraulic and aerodynamic roughness using illumination and shadow of digital elevation models
G.L.Heritage and A.Chappell

 

  How to Identify Types of Spatial Processes - An Example
B.Hofer

 

  Agent-Based Clusters to Virtually Manage Spatially Distributed Sensors
N. Jabeur and P.A. Graniero

 

  The developing Actuality of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Technology in China
G.Jian-Ya

 

  Research on remote sensed image Classification Based on morphological feature extraction
Z.Jiang and C.Xiao-Ling

 

  Health Atlas Ireland
H.Johnson and M.McIntyre

 

  A dedicated Geographic Exploration Interface for the monitoring of worldwide Farm Animal Genetic Resources
S.Joost and A.Pointet

 

  A 2-Pass Data Mining Technique for Spatio-Temporal Datasets
M-T.Kechadi, M.Bertolotto, S.Di Martino and F.Ferrucci

 

  The Effects of Underlying Asymmetry and Outliers in data on the Residual Maximum Likelihood Variogram:A Comparison with the Method of Moments Variogram
R.Kerry and M.A.Oliver

 

  Geostatistical Alternatives for Incorporating Covariates in Areal Interpolation
P.C.Kyriakidis and M.F.Goodchild

 

  A geographic automata system for modelling disease outbreaks in wild and unfenced animal populations
S.W.Laffan, E.Lubarsky, M.P.Ward and L.D.Highfield

 

  M5 Model Tree applied to modelling town centre area activities for the city of Nottingham
T.K.T.Le, R.J.Abrahart and N.J.Mount

 

  Re-scaling Terrain Variables
B.G.Lees, Q.K.Yang and D.L.Jupp

 

  Software algorithm for decoding GPS from spatially encoded video
P.Lewis, T.McCarthy, A.Winstanley and A.S.Fotheringham

 

  Agent-Based Services for Validating Multi-Agent Models
Y.Li, A.J.Brimicombe and C.Li

 

  Spati-temporal Changes of NDVI and Their Relations with Precipitation and Temperature in Yangtze River Catchment from 1992 to 2001
Z.Li and C.Xiao-Ling

 

  Spatial Statistical Modelling of Traffic Accidents
Y.Liu and D.Jarrett

 

  Self Organizing Maps for Urban Modelling
V.Lobo, P.Cabral and F.Bação:

 

  The Roy Bose simultaneous confidence interval approach to multivariate multitemporal pairwise comparisons within and between objects
M.P. Mac Siúrtáin

 

  Patch Metrics as Surrogates of Structural Complexity of Remnant Vegetation
A.S.Mahiny

 

  Cellular Landscapes and Infectious Disease
G.P.Malanson

 

  Agent-Based Modelling and Crime in Leeds
N.Malleson

 

  Fuzzy Geographically Weighted Clustering
G.A.Mason and R.D.Jacobson

 

  Reasoning-Ready Sensor Data
J.D.McCarthy and P.A.Graniero

 

  Multifaceted Geocomputation to Support Ecological Modelling in Yellowstone
D. L. McGinnis, C. Anderson, M. W. Williams and D. A. Bennett

 

  Channel-adaptive Interpolation for Improved Bathymetric TIN
J.K.McGrath, J.P.O’Kane, K.J.Barry and R.C.Kavanagh

 

  Identifying Travel to Work Areas in Ireland: A Hierarchical Approach using GIS
Meredith D, Charlton M. , Foley R. and Walsh J.

 

  Integrative spatial-spectral-temporal remote sensor models of urban configuration and sustainability
V.Mesev

 

  Delineation & Representation of Linear Megadunes from CSI-SRTM DEM
G.Ch.Miliaresis

 

  Time geographic fields: A continuous velocity theory for time geography
H.J.Miller and S.A.Bridwell

 

  Using simulated data to explore the effects of spatial structure, sampling strategy, and statistical methods on species distribution models
J.A.Miller:

 

  Applying Recommendation Algorithms to Collections of Geospatial Metadata
P.Mooney and A.Winstanley

 

  Performance assessment of a new Vector-based Geographic Cellular Automata Model
N.L.Moreno and D.J.Marceau

 

  Accessibility to Health Care in Rural Ireland
K.Morrissey, G.Clarke, D.Ballas and C.O’Donoghue

 

  Modelling accessibility via transportation networks based upon previous experience: a Geographically Weighted Regression approach
D.M.Mountain, J.L.Y.Tsui and J.F.Raper

 

  GeoComputational Approaches to Coverage Maximization in Service Facility Siting
A.T.Murray, T.C.Matisziw, D.Tong and H.Wei

 

  On block bootstrapping areal data
N.Nagle

 

  Fractal Analysis of Pedestrian Egress, Behavior and Efficiency
A.Nara and P.M.Torrens

 

  Geocomputing Made Simple: Service-Chain Based Automated Geoprocessing for Precision Agriculture
E.Nash, J.Bobert, K-O. Wenkel, W.Mirschel and R.Wieland

 

  Semi-automatic Use of High Resolution Images and Digital Elevation Models for Counting and Identification of Forest Trees
D.Neves and C.Carneiro

 

  Computing and calibrating disaggregated spatial interaction models
M.E.O’Kelly and M.Niedzielski

 

  Heuristically Driven Random Walks Across Large Scale Graphs
A.C.Olden and G.E.Taylor

 

  A Geospatial Implementation of a Novel Delineation Clustering Algorithm Employing the K-means
T.J.Oyana

 

  Correlating street centrality with commerce and service location in cities
S.Porta and V.Latora

 

  Can general models of marine biota be applied broadly for accurate and affective habitat mapping?
B.Radford, N.Goldberg, K.Holmes, K.van Neil, and G.Kendrick

 

  Novel Structural Analyses of Surface Networks
S.Rana

 

  Fuzzy Logic Method for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping, “Rio Blanco”, Nicaragua
H.Schernthanner

 

  Reducing Boundary Effects in Image Texture Segmentation Using Weighted Semivariogram
Y.Shou-Jing and C.Xiao-Ling

 

  Exploratory Cartographic Visualisation of Health and Higher Education the through Google Maps API
A.Singleton, M.Gibin and P.Longley

 

  Self-Organising Maps for exploration of spatio-temporal emergency response data
O.Špatenková,U.Demšar and J.Krisp

 

  Improving Map Generalisation of Buildings by Introduction of Urban Context Rules
S.Steiniger and P.Taillandier

 

  Exploring housing patterns and dynamics in low demand neighbourhoods using Geographically Weighted Regression
G.Squires and R.Kingston

 

  Automatic Grounding of Vague Geographic Ontology in Data
A.Third, B.Bennett and D.Mallenby

 

  Spatial pattern of channel network in Jiuyuangou drainage basin
Z.Ting, T.Guo-an, L.Xuejun, Z.Yi and J.Dunxin

 

  Socio-economic cluster detection with Spatial Scan Statistics. Case study: services at intra-urban scale
D.Tuia, C.Kaiser, A.DaCunha amd M.Kanevski

 

  Geographic Information Retrieval from Disparate Data Sources
I.Turton, M.Gahegan and A.Jaiswal

 

  Zen and the Art of GIS: Visualising what can’t be seen
R.A.Wadsworth

 

  Collapsible 3D Terrains for GIS Visualization
S.Wang, R.Beiko and S.Brooks

 

  Multi-Scale Modelling of Population and Land Use with a Variable Grid CA
R.White and I.Uljee

 

  Bringing agents into the spatial microsimulation
B.M.Wu, M.H.Birkin and P.H.Rees

 

  Considering Diversity in Spatial Decision Support Systems
N.Xiao

 

  Public Participation GIS for the General Public?
N.Xiao, O.Ahlqvist and M-P.Kwan

 

  Multi-category Tempo-Spatial Pattern Analysis (McTSPA)
Y.Xie and X.Ye

 

  New Frameworks for Urban Sustainability Assessments: Linking Complexity, Information and Policy
Moira L. Zellner and Thomas L. Theis

 

  A Constrained CA Model to Simulate Urban Growth of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
Y.Zhao and Y.Murayama

 

Posters
  Towards routine large-scale, discrete spatial event simulations
E-W.Augustijn-Beckers and R.A.de By

 

  Moving Objects Management in a 3D Dynamic Environment
L.Hashemi Beni, M.A.Mostafavi and M.L.Gavrilova

 

  Land use change simulation model based on MCDM and CA and its application
Q.Bingwen

 

  A new geocomputational algorithms for forest classification and mapping using satellite remote sensing data
A.Bonyad

 

  Traffic simulation environment for Multi-Agent systems based on GIS
P.Dergel, P.Fuks and L.Hrubá

 

  Smart Environments and LBS to support pedestrian navigation
G.Gartner

 

  Deriving Cellular Automata Rules for Areas at Risk of West Nile Virus Infection
G.Green, S.Ahearn, R.Carney and A.McConchie:

 

  Global SRTM Geomorphometric Atlas
P.L.Guth

 

  Non-linear behaviour, emergence, and complexity in geographical systems
A.J.Heppenstall, A.J.Evans and L.M.See

 

  Marine versus terrestrial predictive mapping: Geographic modelling constraints of working underwater
K.W.Holmes, B.Radford and K.P.Van Niel

 

  Land Use Change Modelling Using Markov Chain and Neural Network: Potentialities and Limitations
Y.Hu, A.R.Watkinson and A.A.Lovett

 

  Using Urban Viewsheds for Embedding Geographical Context in Photograph Databases of Urban Areas
T.Joliveau and S.Rana

 

  Complete Route Computing for Non-drivers Based on Public Transport Network and Pedestrian Network
Y.Liu, X.Zhang and H.Sun

 

  Forecasting Using the Mixture of Local Expert Models
B.Melo and C.L.Nascimento Jr

 

  Geostatistical Analysis: Software Flashpoint
J.Negreiros, A.C.Costa, M.Painho , J.Santos and I.Lopes

 

  Towards a Measure of Joint Space-Time Accessibility: Conceptualization and Theoretical Framework
T.Neutens, T.Schwanen, F.Witlox and Ph.De Maeyer

 

  Vector Approaches to Urban Morphogenesis Modelling
C.Plazanet and V.Silva

 

  Geospatial Techniques for a Multi-Resolution Assessment of Post-Fire Boreal Vegetation Residual Patterns
T.K.Remmel and A.H.Perera

 

  TCP Interface To Access the MICRODEM GIS Engine
R.Thibaud, P.L.Guth, P.Alessio and S.Méline

 

  Geography Cartography Service: A Case Study of On-Demand Geo-Computing
J.Wang, G.H.Gan, Y.Xu and Z.Q.Wang

 

  Using Spatial Data Analysis in Distribution System Design
M.S.Zaeri, J.Shahrabi and M.Pariazar

 

  An automatic updating method for geospatial data with lightweight network GIS
Y.H.Zeng and Z.H.Tian

 

  Evaluating location-based functionality from the perspective of the user: a case study from the Greenwich Observatory
R.Zhumagulova, D.M.Mountain and C.Rhin