15. GIS 2007: Seattle, Washington, USA

Invited lecture

• Michael T. Jones:
  The big-O of global visualization: challenges in scaling GIS to one billion users. 1
  
• Franz Leberl, Horst Bischof, Helmut Grabner, Stefan Kluckner:
  Recognizing cars in aerial imagery to improve orthophotos. 2
  

Spatial databases

• Verena Kantere, Timos K. Sellis:
  Handling spatial data in distributed environments. 3
  
• Wan D. Bae, Petr Vojtechovský, Shayma Alkobaisi, Scott T. Leutenegger, Seon Ho Kim:
  An interactive framework for raster data spatial joins. 4
  
• Cédric du Mouza, Witold Litwin, Philippe Rigaux:
  Dynamic storage balancing in a distributed spatial index. 5
  

GIS imagery

• Martin Michalowski, Craig A. Knoblock, Kenneth M. Bayer, Berthe Y. Choueiry:
  Exploiting automatically inferred constraint-models for building identification in satellite imagery. 6
  
• Carlos Rueda, Michael Gertz:
  Modeling satellite image streams for change analysis. 7
  
• Benjamin Hagedorn, Jürgen Döllner:
  High-level web service for 3D building information visualization and analysis. 8
  
• Shawn Newsam, Yang Yang:
  Comparing global and interest point descriptors for similarity retrieval in remote sensed imagery. 9
  

Trajectories

• Scott Counts, Marc Smith:
  Where were we: communities for sharing space-time trails. 10
  
• Goce Trajcevski, Hui Ding, Peter Scheuermann, Roberto Tamassia, Dennis Vaccaro:
  Dynamics-aware similarity of moving objects trajectories. 11
  

GIS modeling

• Cláudia Maria de Almeida, Iris M. Souza, Claudia Durand Alves, Carolina M. D. Pinho, Madalena N. Pereira, Raul Queiroz Feitosa:
  Multilevel object-oriented classification of quickbird images for urban population estimates. 12
  
• Ziying Jiang:
  The road extension model in the land change modeler for ecological sustainability of IDRISI. 13
  
• Sungsoon Hwang, Jean-Claude Thill:
  Using fuzzy clustering methods for delineating urban housing submarkets. 14
  
• Mani Thomas, Chandra Kambhamettu, Cathleen A. Geiger, J. Hutchings, M. Engram:
  Near-real time motion analysis for APLIS 2007: a systems modeling perspective. 15
  

Conflation

• Snehal Thakkar, Craig A. Knoblock, José Luis Ambite:
  Quality-driven geospatial data integration. 16
  
• Xiaqing Wu, Rodrigo L. Carceroni, Hui Fang, Steve Zelinka, Andrew Kirmse:
  Automatic alignment of large-scale aerial rasters to road-maps. 17
  
• Boris Epshtein, Eyal Ofek, Yonatan Wexler, Pusheng Zhang:
  Hierarchical photo organization using geo-relevance. 18
  

Road networks

• Leyla Kazemi, Cyrus Shahabi, Mehdi Sharifzadeh, Luc Vincent:
  Optimal traversal planning in road networks with navigational constraints. 19
  
• Sangho Kim, Betsy George, Shashi Shekhar:
  Evacuation route planning: scalable heuristics. 20
  
• Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kröger, Peter Kunath, Matthias Renz, Tim Schmidt:
  Proximity queries in large traffic networks. 21
  
• Luis Otávio Alvares, Vania Bogorny, Bart Kuijpers, José Antônio Fernandes de Macêdo, Bart Moelans, Alejandro A. Vaisman:
  A model for enriching trajectories with semantic geographical information. 22
  
• Masaaki Tanizaki, Ouri Wolfson:
  Randomization in traffic information sharing systems. 23
  

Search engines and semantics

• Vibhuti S. Sengar, Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Samarth Prakash, Kentaro Toyama:
  Robust location search from text queries. 24
  
• Michael D. Lieberman, Hanan Samet, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Jon Sperling:
  STEWARD: architecture of a spatio-textual search engine. 25
  
• Gobe Hobona, David Fairbairn, Philip James:
  Semantically-assisted geospatial workflow design. 26
  
• Mikhail N. Zhizhin, Eric A. Kihn, Vassily Lyutsarev, Sergei Berezin, Alexey Poyda, Dmitry Mishin, Dmitry Medvedev, Dmitry Voitsekhovsky:
  Environmental scenario search and visualization. 27
  

Terrain modeling

• Andrew Danner, Thomas Mølhave, Ke Yi, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Lars Arge, Helena Mitásová:
  TerraStream: from elevation data to watershed hierarchies. 28
  
• Emanuele Danovaro, Leila De Floriani, Maria Vitali, Paola Magillo:
  Multi-scale dual morse complexes for representing terrain morphology. 29
  
• W. Randolph Franklin, Metin Inanc, Zhongyi Xie, Daniel M. Tracy, Barbara Cutler, Marcus V. A. Andrade:
  Smugglers and border guards: the GeoStar project at RPI. 30
  
• Tomas Ukkonen, Tapani Sarjakoski, Juha Oksanen:
  Distributed computation of drainage basin delineations from uncertain digital elevation models. 31
  

Visualization

• Tiffany C. Vance, N. Merati, Sharon M. Mesick, C. W. Moore, D. J. Wright:
  GeoModeler: tightly linking spatially-explicit models and data with a GIS for analysis and geovisualization. 32
  
• Sara Johansson, Mikael Jern:
  GeoAnalytics visual inquiry and filtering tools in parallel coordinates plots. 33
  
• Markus Innerebner, Michael H. Böhlen, Igor Timko:
  A web-enabled extension of a spatio-temporal DBMS. 34
  

Spatiotemporal databases and moving objects

• Alex Lohfink, Tom W. Carnduff, Nathan Thomas, J. Mark Ware:
  An object-oriented approach to the representation of spatiotemporal geographic features. 35
  
• Kostas Patroumpas, Theofanis Minogiannis, Timos K. Sellis:
  Approximate order-k Voronoi cells over positional streams. 36
  
• Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, Wei-Shinn Ku:
  Partition-based lazy updates for continuous queries over moving objects. 37
  
• Jing Dai, Chang-Tien Lu:
  CLAM: concurrent location management for moving objects. 38
  
• Toby Xu, Ying Cai:
  Location anonymity in continuous location-based services. 39
  

Poster session

• Priyadarshi Bhattacharya, Marina L. Gavrilova:
  Geometric algorithms for clearance based optimal path computation. 40
  
• Hartwig H. Hochmair:
  Optimal route selection with route planners: results of a desktop usability study. 41
  
• Vera Hernández Ernst, Angi Voss, Felix Berghoff:
  Visual analytic services for geomarketing in spatial data infrastructures. 42
  
• Zhiyong Peng, Yuwei Peng, Boxuan Zhai:
  Using object deputy database to realize multi-representation geographic information system. 43
  
• Marc J. van Kreveld, Jun Luo:
  The definition and computation of trajectory and subtrajectory similarity. 44
  
• Weidong Li, Chuanrong Zhang:
  A middle-insertion algorithm for Markov chain simulation of soil layering. 45
  
• Elias Ioup, Kevin Shaw, John Sample, Mahdi Abdelguerfi:
  Efficient AKNN spatial network queries using the M-Tree. 46
  
• Eoin Mac Aoidh, Michela Bertolotto, David C. Wilson:
  Analysis of implicit interest indicators for spatial data. 47
  
• Roland J. Viger, Olaf David, Charles G. O'Hara:
  Using geoprocessing specification as semantic metadata with GEOLEM. 48
  
• Walid G. Aref:
  Pipelined spatial join processing for quadtree-based indexes. 49
  
• Fubao Zhu, Jihong Guan, Shuigeng Zhou:
  Constraints-preserving GML storage in object-relational databases. 50
  
• Sajib Barua, Reda Alhajj:
  A parallel multi-scale region outlier mining algorithm for meteorological data. 51
  
• Zongyao Sha, Minghua Zhang:
  Development of web-based decision support system for field-based crop management. 52
  
• Chengyang Zhang, Yan Huang:
  Cluster By: a new sql extension for spatial data aggregation. 53
  
• Tassilo Glander, Jürgen Döllner:
  Cell-based generalization of 3D building groups with outlier management. 54
  
• Sigal Elnekave, Mark Last, Oded Maimon:
  Predicting future locations using clusters' centroids. 55
  
• Raquel Viaña:
  Selective decompression of vector maps. 56
  
• Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Luca Paolino, Monica Sebillo, Genny Tortora, Giuseppe Vitiello, Giuseppe Avagliano:
  Towards the automatic generation of web GIS. 57
  
• Petko Bakalov, Eamonn J. Keogh, Vassilis J. Tsotras:
  TS2-tree - an efficient similarity based organization for trajectory data. 58
  
• Atsushi Nara, Paul M. Torrens:
  Spatial and temporal analysis of pedestrian egress behavior and efficiency. 59
  
• Darren M. Ruddell, Elizabeth A. Wentz:
  Scale, population, and spatial analysis: a methodological investigation. 60
  
• Yu. Dabaghian, Anthony G. Cohn, L. Frank:
  Topological maps from signals. 61
  
• Mônica Ribeiro Porto Ferreira, Caetano Traina Jr., Agma J. M. Traina:
  An efficient framework for similarity query optimization. 62
  
• Michael Kallay:
  Defining edges on a round earth. 63
  
• Charalambos Poullis, Suya You, Ulrich Neumann:
  Linear feature extraction using perceptual grouping and graph-cuts. 64
  
• Dan Jiang, Christoph F. Eick, Chun-Sheng Chen:
  On supervised density estimation techniques and their application to spatial data mining. 65
  
• Ganesh Subbiah, Ashraful Alam, Latifur Khan, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham:
  Geospatial data qualities as web services performance metrics. 66
  
• Huijie Zhang, Jigui Sun, Jin Liu, Nan Lv:
  A new simplification method for terrain model using discrete particle swarm optimization. 67
  
• Yuan-Ko Huang, Chao-Chun Chen, Chiang Lee:
  Efficient KNN processing over moving objects with uncertain velocity. 68