ScanGIS'2001 - On-line Papers

CONTENTS

• Foreword
• Session: Surface Modelling
  • Exploring data-rich sources of environmental information using geostatistics
    Margaret A. Oliver 1-1
  • Improving relief classification with contextual merging
    Bård Romstad 3-13
  • Compressing digital elevation models with wavelet decomposition
    Patrik Ottoson 15-31
  • Multiscale representation of terrain models using average interpolating wavelets
    Bjørn T. Bruun and Stein Nilsen 33-44
  • Distributed handling of level of detail surfaces with binary triangle trees
    Rune Aasgaard and Thomas Sevaldrud 45-58
• Session: Modelling and Implementation of Databases
  • Location-based services: A database perspective
    Christian S. Jensen, Anders Friis-Christensen, Torben B. Pedersen, Dieter Pfoser, Simonas Šaltenis, and Nectaria Tryfona 59-68
  • A software system for large dynamic maps based on networked geographical databases
    Asgeir Finnseth and Guðmundur Jökulsson 69-87
  • Retrieval of geographic data using ellipsoidal quadtrees
    Patrik Ottoson 89-98
  • Managing resolution in multi-resolution databases
    David Skogan 99-113
• Session: Data Integration
  • Automated georeferencing of aerial images
    Joachim Höhle 115-123
  • Description of the content of geographic datasets
    Paula Ahonen-Rainio 125-139
  • Urban land use mapping using register data and standard GIS
    Martin Hvidberg 141-155
• Session: Spatial Concepts
  • On the use of parameterization in the implementation of geometry object-classes
    Kjell Kjenstad 157-169
  • Integrating ontologies: Assessing the use of the Cyc ontology for cadastral applications
    Erik Stubkjær 171-184
  • Structural modelling for geographical information systems using icons
    Håvard Tveite 185-201
• Session: Visualization
  • Map generalization: Information theoretic approach to feature elimination
    Jan Terje Bjørke and Inge Myklebust 203-211
  • Visualization of the temporal dimension in multimedia presentations of spatial phenomena
    Terje Midtbø 213-224
  • A time-series animation of urban growth in Copenhagen metropolitan area
    Henning Sten Hansen 225-235
• Session: Applications of Geographical Information Systems
  • Estimation of distance-decay parameters: GIS-based indicators of recreational accessibility
    Hans Skov-Petersen 237-258
  • GIS-based monitoring of urban changes of development
    Bo Overgaard 259-275

The proceedings

Proceedings title: "ScanGIS'2001 - The 8th Scandinavian Research Conference on Geographical Information Science, 25-27 June 2001, Ås, Norway - Proceedings"

Editors: Jan Terje Bjørke and Håvard Tveite.

Number of pages: 275.

ISBN: 82-576-9502-5.

Published May 2001, by the Department of Mapping Sciences, Agricultural University of Norway, Postboks 5034, N-1432 Ås, Norway and Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, Norway.