GeoComputation 2015 Conference Proceedings

 

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on GeoComputation
Geospatial Information Sciences
The University of Texas at Dallas,
Richardson, Texas, USA.
20 to 23 May 2015

Conference sponsors:

Esri
GIS247
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
JLL
Pioneer Natural Resources
Wiley

 

Keynote Presentations

Shashi Shekar
From GPS and Virtual Globes to Spatial Computing

 

Scott Morehouse
Geographic Information Models

Dana Tomlin
Mapping What Isn't Quite There

 

Paul Torrens
Immersive geosimulation

 

Michael Batty
City Size and Performance — Defining Nations, Regions and Cities Through Percolation Theory

 

Papers

Dilip Patlolla, Sophie Voisin, Harini Sridharan, and Anil Cheriyadat
GPU Accelerated Textons and Dense SIFT Features for Human Settlement Detection from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery

 

Phil Nugent, Olufemi Omitaomu, Esther Parish, Rui Mei, Kathleen Ernst, and Mariya Absar
A Web Based Geographic Information Platform to Support Urban Adaptation to Climate Change

 

Alex Singleton, Seth Spielman, and David O'Sullivan
Our Town: How Socioeconomics Shape Functional Neighborhoods in American Cities

 

Min Sun and David Wong
Spatial Aggregation as a Means to Improve Data Quality

 

Monghyeon Lee, Yongwan Chun, and Daniel A. Griffith
Uncertainties on Spatial Data Analysis by Various Sources of error

 

Carlos A. Felgueiras, Antonio M. V. Monteiro, Jussara O. Ortiz, and Eduardo C. G. Camargo
Improving Accuracy of Categorical Attribute Modeling with Indicator Simulation and Soft Information

 

Eunice Kim and Zhengyuan Zhu
Estimating Variance Function of a Nonstationary Process Using a Difference Filter

 

Judith Verstegen, Floor van der Hilst, and Derek Karssenberg
A Framework to Assess Model Structure Stationarity

 

Xiaojun Pu and Michael Tiefelsdorf
A Variance-Stabilizing Transformation to Mitigate Biased Variogram Estimation in Heterogeneous Surfaces with Clustered Samples

 

Marco Millones, Benoit Parmentier, Daniel A. Griffith, Stuart E Hamilton, and Sean McFall
When Space Beats Time: decomposing and interpreting temporal and spatial components after hurricane events

 

Matthew Schmill and Tim Oates
Power Analysis for Geographic Representativeness

 

E Morris, Vaishnavi Thacker, and Daniel A. Griffith
Respondent Driven Sampling and Spatial Autocorrelation

 

Parmanand Sinha, Monghyeon Lee, Yongwan Chun, and Daniel A. Griffith
The Statistical Distribution of Coefficients for Constructing Eigenvector Spatial Filters

 

Qing Luo, Daniel A. Griffith, and Huayi Wu
The Moran Coefficient and the Geary Ratio: Some mathematical and numerical comparisons

 

Thanos Bantis, James Haworth, Catherine Holloway, and John Twigg
Mapping Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Disabled People in emergencies: A Bayesian approach

 

Mahdi Ahmadi, Yan Huang, and Kuruvilla John
Predicting Hourly Ozone Pollution in Dallas-Fort Worth Area Using Spatio-Temporal Clustering

 

Iliyana Dobreva, Michael Bishop, Jyh-Charn Liu, and Liang Da
Development, Evaluation and Parallelization of a Spatio-Temporal, Topographic, and Spectral GIS-based Solar Radiation Model

 

Raul Zurita-Milla, Xiaojing Wu, and Menno-Jan Kraak
Using Co-clustering to Analyze Spatio-Temporal Patterns: A Case Study Based on Spring Phenology

 

Jacek Niesterowicz, Tomasz Stepinski, and Jaroslaw Jasiewicz
Regionalization of the Conterminous U.S. into Hierarchical Landscape Pattern Types

 

Dapeng Li, Thomas Cova, and Philip Dennison
Integrating Fire-spread and Household-level Trigger Modeling to Stage Wildfire Evacuation Warnings

 

Kai Liu and Guoan Tang
Parallel Calculation of LS Factor for Regional Scale Soil Erosion Assessment

 

Yuhong Zhou and Fang Qiu
Comparing Curve Matching Approaches for Land Cover Classification Using Waveform Datas

 

Hamed Mehdi Poor, Raul Zurita Milla, and Menno-Jan Kraak
Developing a Geocomputational Workflow to Check the Consistency of Volunteered Geographic Information

 

Yihong Yuan
Exploring Spatial Decay Effect in Mass Media and Social Media: A Case Study of China

 

Robert Stewart, Jesse Piburn, Eric Weber, Marie Urban, April Morton, Gautam Thakur, and Budhendra Bhaduri
Can Social Media Play a Role in Developing Building Occupancy Curves for Small Area Estimation?

 

Kelly Sims, Eric Weber, Budhendra Bhaduri, Gautam S. Thakur, and David Resseguie
Application of Social Media Data to High Resolution Mapping of a Special Event Population

 

Kai Liao, Jun Kong, Kang Zhang, and Bauke de Vries
Design and Validation of Dynamic Hierarchies and Adaptive Layouts Using Spatial Graph Grammars

 

Jennifer Miller
Using a Null Model Approach to Explore How Dynamic Interactions in Wildlife Are Analyzed

 

Aravind Sivasailam and Anthony Cummings
Do American Communities Provide Signals to the Spatial Pattern Distribution of Trees and Palms in Guyana?

 

Paul Holloway, Jennifer Miller, and Simon Gillings
Simulating the Effects of Migration on the Uncertainty of Species’ Range Shift

 

Charles P. Newland, Hedwig Van Delden, Jeffrey P. Newman, Holger R. Maier, Roel Vanhout, and Aaron C. Zecchin
A Utility Study of Ant Colony Optimization for Automated Calibration of Land Use Cellular Automata Models

 

Omar Charif and Reine Maria Basse
Modelling Land Use Dynamics in Luxembourg Cross Border Region: The Use of Cellular Automata and Decision Tree Learning Model.

 

Katarina Mayer
Designing Policies to Prevent Sex Trafficking: A Cellular Automata Approach

 

Hichem Omrani, Amin Tayyebi, and Bryan C Pijanowski
Integrating the Multi-Label Land Use Concept and Cellular Automata with the ANN-based Land Transformation Model

 

Jie Li, Zhao Xiao, and Jun Kong
Exploring 3D Trajectory Visualization in a Virtual Environment

 

Anna Dmowska and Tomasz Stepinski
High Resolution Population Grid for the Entire United States

 

Weidong Zhao, Jitang Zhao, Lei Ma, Wan Zhou, Jian Tian, and Jiazhong Qian
Can Grid and TIN coexist?

 

Hyeongmo Koo, Yongwan Chun, and Daniel A. Griffith
Geovisualization of Attribute Uncertainty

 

Pawel Netzel and Tomasz Stepinski
World Climate Search and Classification Using Dynamic Time Warping Similarity Function

 

Jesse Piburn, Robert Stewart, and April Morton
Attribute Portfolio Distance: A Dynamic Time Warping based Approach to Comparing and Detecting Common Spatiotemporal Patterns among Multi-Attribute Data Portfolios

 

Hamidreza Zoraghein, Stefan Leyk, Matthew Ruther, and Barbara P. Buttenfield
Deriving Spatially Refined Consistent Small Area Estimates over Time Using Cadastral Data

 

Yang Xu, Shih-Lung Shaw, Ling Yin, and Ziliang Zhao
Understanding Individual Daily Activity Space Based on Large Scale Mobile Phone Location Data

 

Alexandre Sorokine, Devin White, and Andrew Hardin
From Everywhere To Everywhere (FETE): Adaptation of a Pedestrian Movement Network Model to a Hybrid Parallel Environmentn

 

Song Gao, Bo Yan, Li Gong, Blake Regalia, Yiting Ju, and Yingjie Hu
Uncovering Digital Divide and Physical Divide Using Mobile Phone Data

 

Jianan Shen and Tao Cheng
SVM Classification of London Police Foot Patrol Behaviour

 

Clio Andris, Nathan Frey, Jeremy Van Cleve, and James O'Dwyer
Geocomputation Methods for Dyadic Relationships

 

April Morton, Nicholas Nagle, Jesse Piburn, Robert Stewart, and Ryan Mcmanamay
A Hybrid Dasymetric and Machine Learning Approach to High-Resolution Residential Electricity Consumption Modeling

 

Sebastian Santibanez, Marius Kloft, and Tobia Lakes
Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Regression of Spatial Variables: A Case Study in the Real Estate Industry

 

Bryn Montgomery, Suzana Dragicevic, and Jozo Dujmovic
A Soft Computing Logic Method for Agricultural Land Suitability Evaluation

 

Irene Garcia-Martí, Raúl Zurita-Milla, Sita Bennema, Margriet G. Harms, C. C. van den Wijngaard, Arno Swart, and Arnold J. H. van Vliet
Geospatial Data Mining in Volunteer Data: How Natural Conditions Might Increase the Risk of Tick Bites and Lyme Disease?

 

Atsushi Nara, Chris Allen, and Kiyoshi Izumi
Surgical Phase Recognition using Movement Data from Video Imagery and Location Sensor Data

 

Shitai Bao, Changjoo Kim, Wenping Ai, Zehui Lai and Jianfang Wang
Urban Water-log Simulation and Prediction based on Multi-Agent Systems

 

Amir Najian and Denis Dean
Simulation of Spatial Disorientation in Human Walking Behavior: Optimizing Wandering Disutility Functions

 

Manzhu Yu, Chaowei Yang, and Zhenlong Li
Enabling the Acceleration of Dust Simulation using Job Scheduling Method in a Cloud Environment

 

Eduardo Pérez-Molina, Richard Sliuzas, Victor Jetten, and Martin van Maarseveen
Simulating Flood Impacts in Kampala, Uganda: Why Land Patterns Matter

 

Byung Park, Melissa Allen, Devin White, Eric Weber, John Murphy, Michael North, and Pam Sydelko
MIRAGE: A Framework for Data-driven Collaborative High-resolution Simulation

 

Kambiz Borna, Antoni Moore, and Pascal Sirguey
A Vector Agent-Based Unsupervised Image Classification for High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery

 

Ling Yin, Jinxing Hu, and Qi Yu
Accelerating Agent-Based Emergency Evacuation Planning using a Knowledge Database based on Population Distribution Regularity

 

Zhaoya Gong, Wenwu Tang, and Jean-Claude Thill
A Locality-aware Approach to Scalable Parallel Agent-based Models of Spatially Heterogeneous Interactions

 

Sang-Il Lee and Daeheon Cho
Developing a Bivariate AMOEBA Technique

 

Ranga Raju Vatsavai
Computationally Efficient Algorithms for Settlement Mapping Using Very High-resolution Images

 

Jun Liu, Shuguang Liu, Qiming Zhou, and Jing Qian
Investigation of Landslide based on High Performance and Cloud-enabled Geocomputation

 

Devin White and Christopher Davis
A Fully-Automated High Performance Image Registration Workflow to Support Precision Geolocation for Imagery Collected by Airborne and Spaceborne Sensors

 

Insu Hong, Michael Kuby, and Alan Murray
Deviation Flow Refueling Location Model for Continuous Space: Commercial Drone Delivery System for Urban Area

 

Norhakim Yusof, Raul Zurita-Milla, and Menno-Jan Kraak
Mining Sequential Pattern of Multi-dimensional Wind Profiles

 

Kevin Stofan
Space-time Cluster Detection Using Network-Constrained Minimum Spanning Trees on GPU

 

Ying Liu, Feixiong Luo, and Guofeng Cao
Track Spatiotemporal Spread of Public Concerns on Ebloa in the U.S. via Twitter

 

Grant Brown and Jacob Oleson
Mining Spatiotemporal Epidemic Modeling with libSpatialSEIR: Specification, Fitting, Selection, and Prediction

 

Xuan Shi
Parallelizing Affinity Propagation using GPUs for Spatial Cluster Analysis over Big Geospatial Data

 

Yousef Khajavigodellou, Ali Asghar Alesheikh, Farshad Hakimpour, and Kamran Chapi
Optimizing urban modeling based on Road Network and Land Use/Cover Changes by Using Agent Base – Cellular Automata Model

 

Zhenqiang Li, Xuefeng Guan, and Huayi Wu
A Distributed Simulation Method of Forest Fire Propagation Based on Cellar Automata Model

 

Gaojin He, Luo Chen, Wei Xiong, Qiuyun Wu, and Ning Jing
A MPI-based Parallel Pyramid Building Algorithm for Large-scale RS Image

 

Kai Hu, Huayi Wu, Zhipeng Gui, Lan You, Ping Shen, Shuang Gao, Xiaoqiang Cheng, and Jie Zheng
GeoSquare: A Cloud-enabled Geospatial Information Resources (GIRs) Infrastructure for Collaboration and Sharing

 

Sujing Wang, Christoph F. Eick, and Qiang Xu
A Spatiotemporal Data Mining Framework for Mining Ozone Pollution Data

 

Jiaxuan Pang, Charles Tian, Yan Huang, Bill Buckles, and Arash Mirzaei
Atvis: A New Transit Visualization System

 

Posters

Mukhtar Ahmed Ajaz Ahmed, Amr Abd-Elrahman, Francisco Escobedo, Wendell Cropper, and Nilesh Timilsina
Identifying Significant Drivers for the Tradeoff and Synergy between Carbon Sequestration and Water Yield Ecosystem Services at the Watershed/Eco-region Level in the Southeastern United States.

 

J. Fernando Rios
A Tool for Uncertainty Analysis of Fuzzy-Probabilistic Models in GIS: Conceptualization & Implementation

 

David Haynes II, Tracy Kugler, David Van Riper, and Steven Manson
Terra Populus: Geocomputation for Population and Environment Data

 

Jackson Voelkel, Vivek Shandas, Meenakshi Rao, and Anthony Thompson
Geocomputation for Urban Planning in the Era of Big Data: Developing Automated Tools for Analyzing LiDAR data to Inform Urban Planning and Policy in Portland, OR

 

Sara Stoudt
Geostatistical Models for the Spatial Distribution of Uranium in the Continental United States

 

John Olgin and Deana Pennington
Incorporation of Planetary Boundary Layer Height Modeling with GIS Techniques to Determine Criteria for Aerosolization and Transport of Infectious Agents in Southwestern United States

 

Mariana Güereque, Deana Pennington, and Vernon Morris
Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Aerosols in the Atlantic Ocean

 

Parmanand Sinha
Modeling Land Use Change Using an Eigenvector Spatial Filtering Model Specification for Discrete Response

 

Ellen-Wien Augustijn-Beckers, Raul Zurita-Milla, and Nicoline van der Maas
Using Self-Organizing Maps to Analyse Spatial Temporal Diffusion of Infectious Diseases

 

Xiaomeng Li and Zachary P Neal
Comparing Old and New Urban Hierarchies using Agent-Based Simulation

 

Priyanka Vyas and Dohyeong Kim
Bangladesh East-West Immunization Divide: Time to Target Communities Instead of Households?

 

Sean Mcfall, Matthias Leu, Benoit Parmentier, Marco Millones, and Stuart Hamilton
Geostatistical Modeling of Primary and Secondary Automobile Traffic as Ecological Disturbance Proxy Across the Contiguous United States

 

Piyush Yadav, Shailesh Deshpande, and Raja Sengupta
Animating Maps: Visual Analytics Meets Geoweb 2.0