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Open geospatial data and tools are an increasingly important paradigm offering the opportunity to promote the democratization of geographical information, the transparency of governments and institutions, as w...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2020 5:5
In the Sahara and the Sahel, groundwater is a limited and indispensable resource for pastoral livestock farming. The daily life and work of the herders are organised around the location of the wells and the de...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2020 5:4
Diffs, a concept known from source code version control systems such as git, is interesting for geospatial, event-based workflows. We investigate how the native mathematical structure of vector geometries can ...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2020 5:3
Of the many features that smart cities offer, safe and comfortable mobility of pedestrians within the built environment is of particular importance. Safe and comfortable mobility requires that the built enviro...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2020 5:2
This paper is the editorial of the Special Issue “Open Source Geospatial Software”, which features 10 published papers. The editorial introduces the concept of openness and, within the geospatial context, decl...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2020 5:1
This review aims at introducing laser scanning technology and providing an overview of the contribution of open source projects for supporting the utilization and analysis of laser scanning data. Lidar technol...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:14
PyWPS 4 is a re–make of the Python implementation of the WPS standard. It is the result of the work of over a dozen individual contributors, during a period of almost three years. One of the goals driving this...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:13
Crowdsourced, open geospatial data such as the data compiled through OpenStreetMap have proven useful in addressing humanitarian, disaster and development needs. However, the existing ways in which volunteers ...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:12
OSM2LULC is a software package developed to automatically convert OpenStreetMap (OSM) data into Land Use Land Cover (LULC) maps using Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) tools. It needs to be...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:11
The study of past sea levels relies largely on the interpretation and quantification of sea-level indicators. These are fossil coastal landforms, bioconstructions or deposits that have a quantifiable relation ...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:10
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a well-known crowdsourcing project which aims to create a geospatial database of the whole world. Intrinsic approaches based on the analysis of the history of data, i.e. its evolution ov...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:9
The advancements and new techniques in information technologies are making it possible to acquire large-scale spatial data through satellites, radars and sensor networks. The collection of vast amounts of envi...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:8
Indoor maps, and therefore the indoor map data and software that uses them, are used by architects, designers and planners, those in public safety and emergency response, facilities management and even adverti...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:7
The opportunities of retrieving geospatial datasets as open data and the reliability of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) GIS increased the possibilities of performing a large number of geospatial analyses....
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:6
LandInfra is a relatively new open standard for modelling and representing land and infrastructure features. As it overlaps with other open standards in BIM (IFC) and 3D GIS (CityGML), it has been recognised a...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:5
The international standard CityGML is both a data model and an exchange format to store digital 3D models of cities. While the data model is used by several cities, companies, and governments, in this paper we...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:4
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project collecting geographical data of the entire world. The level of detail of OSM data and its data quality vary much across different regions and domains. In order to...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:3
We describe the process and tools that we have used to generate and publish the BTN100 Linked Dataset, based on the original data from the Spanish Topographic Base (1:100.000 scale) from the Spanish Instituto ...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:2
In its quest for a common European Spatial Data Infrastructure INSPIRE has also addressed the category of spatio-temporally extended coverages, in particular: raster data. The INSPIRE definition of coverages i...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2019 4:1
While there exist international standards for geospatial metadata (ISO 19115), these are rarely used in practice for 3D datasets, and one of the OGC standards for 3D city models, CityGML, does not offer a mech...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:16
The explosive growth of geospatial data has stimulated the development of many standards aimed at decreasing data heterogeneity and enhancing data use. Well-established design methods for geospatial data stand...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:15
Several technologies provide datasets consisting of a large number of spatial points, commonly referred to as point-clouds. These point datasets provide spatial information regarding the phenomenon that is to ...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:14
The Application Domain Extension (ADE) is a built-in mechanism of CityGML to augment its data model with additional concepts required by particular use cases. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview o...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:13
After a review of previous work on resolution in geographic information science (GIScience), this article presents a theory of spatial and temporal resolution of sensor observations. Resolution of single obser...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:12
During coursework and research projects, several geospatial algorithms are produced and mentioned by authors in written documents. However, these products often remain unavailable after the end of the projects...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:11
Route prediction play a vital role in many important location-based applications like resource prediction in grid computing, traffic congestion estimation, vehicular ad-hoc networks, travel recommendation etc....
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:10
OpenLitterMap rewards users with Littercoin for producing open data on litter. Open data on the geospatial characteristics of litter provide means of invoking and evaluating responses to plastic pollution. Ope...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:6
Web 2.0 disseminated the possibility of engaging citizens in data collection initiatives, also known as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), a type of crowdsourcing. This project was conceived based on th...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:9
On the web there is a large number of useful geospatial datasets available, exposed via web map services using open standards or open protocols. Just as web search engines enable users to reliably search and f...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:8
OpenStreetMap and other Volunteered Geographic Information datasets have been explored in the last years, with the aim of understanding how their meaning is rendered, of assessing their quality, and of underst...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:7
Over the last decade, more and more cities and even countries worldwide are creating semantic 3D city models of their physical environment based on the international CityGML standard issued by the Open Geospat...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:5
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:4
Sensor technologies and capabilities have an effect on observational data quality. Typically, data management begins, at best, when a data manager obtains the data and needs to describe it sufficiently to data...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:3
The road towards achievement of the climate protection goals requires, among the rest, a thorough rethinking of the energy planning tools (and policies) at all levels, from local to global. Nevertheless, it is...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:2
The validity of 3D primitives in 3D GIS datasets is often a prerequisite for using them in simulation and decision-making software, e.g. visibility analysis, noise pollution assessment, and energy estimation. ...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2018 3:1
Crowdsourcing (geo-) information and participatory GIS are among the current hot topics in research and industry. Various projects are implementing participatory sensing concepts within their workflow in order...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:27
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:26
Research in time-series remote sensing data is receiving increasing attention. With the availability of relatively short repeat cycle and high spatial resolution satellite data, the construction and applicatio...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:25
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:24
The VI-Suite is a free and open-source addon for the 3D content creation application Blender, developed primarily as a tool for the contextual and performative analysis of buildings. Its functionality has grow...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:23
Sensor engineering is continuously evolving as devices become cheaper, smaller, more intelligent, and more efficient. Today, oceanographic sensors aim at monitoring marine processes by means of physical, chemi...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:22
Singular value decomposition (SVD), as an alternative solution to principal components analysis (PCA), may enhance the spectral profile of burned areas in satellite image composites.
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:21
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...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:20
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, ...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:18
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 ...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:19
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...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:17
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...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:16
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...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:15
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...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:14
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...
Citation: Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 2017 2:13
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41 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
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