Original article
The paper retraces the GRASPgfs endeavor (Geospatial Resource for Agricultural Species and Pests with integrated workflow modelling to support Global Food Security) between multiple disciplines around a common...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:20
Published on: 14 August 2017
Original article
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has conducted much work in the past on event-based models and architectures. However, the current OGC standard baseline only supports synchronous web service capabilities, ...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:18
Published on: 3 August 2017
Original Article
The appropriate resolution of a zone system is key to the development of any transport model, as well as other spatial analyses. The number and shape of zones directly impacts the effectiveness of any further ...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:19
Published on: 24 July 2017
Original Article
Principal components analysis (PCA) is based conventially on the eigenvector decomposition (EVD). Mean-centering the input data prior to the eigenanalysis is treated as an integral part of the algorithm. It en...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:17
Published on: 13 July 2017
Original article
The increase in the number of remote sensing platforms, ranging from satellites to close-range Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), is leading to a growing demand for new image processing and classificatio...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:16
Published on: 3 July 2017
Software
Orfeo ToolBox is an open-source project for state-of-the-art remote sensing, including a fast image viewer, applications callable from command-line, Python or QGIS, and a powerful C++ API. This article is an i...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:15
Published on: 29 June 2017
Software
The publication familiarizes the reader with MicMac - a free, open-source photogrammetric software for 3D reconstruction. A brief history of the tool, its organisation and unique features vis-à-vis other softw...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:14
Published on: 5 June 2017
Original article
The mission of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to protect human health and the environment, including air, water and land. Understanding the extent of pollution in waters and identif...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:13
Published on: 24 May 2017
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
In the last decade Photogrammetry has shown to be a valid alternative to LiDAR techniques for the generation of dense point clouds in many applications. However, dealing with large image sets is computationall...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:12
Published on: 15 May 2017
Original article
Geocoding is highly prone to error for various reasons. This paper examines the geographical inconsistencies associated with geocoding errors seen when using two freely available geocoding tools, Google Sheets...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:11
Published on: 1 May 2017
Original article
The paper presents a combination of two unsupervised techniques for change detection studies in arid and semi-arid areas. Among Remote Sensing change detection techniques, unsupervised approaches have the adva...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:10
Published on: 24 April 2017
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Point clouds with increased point densities create new opportunities for analyzing landscape structure in 3D space. Taking advantage of these dense point clouds we have extended a 2D forest fragmentation index...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:9
Published on: 20 April 2017
Software
Scientific workflows have been commonly used in geospatial data analysis and Cyberinfrastructure. They allow distributed geoprocessing algorithms, models, data, and sensors to be chained together to support ge...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:8
Published on: 10 April 2017
Software
Continued progress in geoinformatics research and applications depends on educating new generations of theorists and practitioners. Effective education and training in turn depend on the availability of approp...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:7
Published on: 13 March 2017
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
New technologies for terrain reconstruction have increased the availability of topographic data at a broad range of resolutions and spatial extents. The existing digital elevation models (DEMs) can now be upda...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:6
Published on: 6 March 2017
Original article
With popular location-based services on smart phones, users are willing to leave comments on the business venues (e.g., restaurants, shops, bars, etc.) that they visited. Reviews of users on Yelp venues somewh...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:5
Published on: 1 March 2017
Software
NASA World Wind is an open source application-programming interface for developing geographic information systems based on a virtual globe rendering engine representing a planet. NASA World Wind provides the i...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:4
Published on: 27 February 2017
Original article
In Europe, a lot of data portals are emerging on the local, national or interregional levels. These portals have a common objective to share data and information to its citizens and businesses, and to make inf...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:3
Published on: 24 February 2017
Original article
In this study, we clustered a large number of microblog users into city nodes based on the interpersonal relations and geographic location attributes of these users and clustered the user relations within each...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:2
Published on: 23 February 2017
Original article
Emergency call centres, commonly known as “112” or “911”, are a crucial part of modern infrastructure. The location of the emergency, any related data, and good GIS support are required for their efficient ope...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:1
Published on: 20 February 2017
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Hitchhiking is a well-known form of transportation, which has been extensively studied from a sociological perspective. While this tourism approach has been popular in some countries for decades, the question ...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2016 1:12
Published on: 19 December 2016
Original article
Swift population growth and unplanned settlement led to the phenomenon of informal urban in Iraqi cities because of warfare, political instability and economic blockage for more than three decades. Economic st...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2016 1:10
Published on: 12 December 2016
Original article
This article offers an alternative look at the experiential character of the built environment by combining objective analysis and subjective perception. The aim is to measure and elaborate on quantitative des...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2016 1:11
Published on: 12 December 2016
Original article
This article explores the concerns from the institutions to include information from the field into geographical information systems (GIS). This task is becoming an essential action to strengthen and speed up ...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2016 1:9
Published on: 9 August 2016
Review
The informal transport infrastructure is an inseparable and critical element of the transportation system in that it provides pedestrian accessibility in planned or unplanned environments. Despite this importa...
Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2016 1:8
Published on: 30 July 2016
