Table Of ContentLecture Notes
in Geoinformation and Cartography
Danny Vandenbroucke
Bénédicte Bucher
Joep Crompvoets Editors
Geographic
Information Science
at the Heart of
Europe
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
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DannyVandenbroucke Joep Crompvoets
SpatialApplications Division Public Management Institute
KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven
Heverlee Leuven
Vlaams-Brabant Vlaams-Brabant
Belgium Belgium
Bénédicte Bucher
COGIT
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ISSN 1863-2246 ISSN 1863-2351 (electronic)
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Preface
Since 1998, the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe
(AGILE)promotesacademicteachingandresearch onGISattheEuropeanlevel.
Itsannualconferencereflectsthevarietyoftopics,disciplinesandactorsthatmake
uptheresearchsceneongeographicinformationscienceinEuropeandbeyond.It
has gradually become the leading GIScience conference in Europe.
For the seventh consecutive year,the AGILE conferencefullpapers are edited
inabookby Springer-Verlag. Thisyear,57paperswere submitted asfullpapers.
The commitment of reviewers was quite impressive with sometimes up to 5
reviewersforonepaper.Ingeneral89.55%oftheassignmentswereperformedin
due time. We send our warm acknowledgements to the numerous reviewers who
did a thorough review. All the reviews have been taken into account for the final
selectionoftheverybestpapers.Readingandusingthereviewsmadetheworkof
the chairs easy and truly satisfactory. After the blind review process and a tough
selection, 23 papers were selected that compose this book.
As the agenda for Europe 2020 is currently being set, this book demonstrates
how geographic information science is at the heart of Europe. The paper contri-
butions open perspectives for innovative services that will strengthen our Euro-
peaneconomy,thatwillinformcitizensabouttheirenvironmentwhilepreserving
theirprivacy.Latestchallengesofspatialdatainfrastructuresareaddressedsuchas
theconnectionwiththeWebvocabulariesortherepresentationofgenealogy.User
generated data (through social networks or through innovative camera and soft-
ware) is also an important breakthrough in our domain. A trend to deal more and
morewithtime,events,ancientdata,andactivitiesisnoticeablethisyearaswell.
As much as we congratulate authors for the quality of their work, we thank
them for their contribution to the success of the AGILE conference and book
series. In addition, we would like to thank the AGILE Council and members for
their active support in making this volume a valuable publication in the field of
GeoinformationSciencesandthisconferenceasuccessfulevent.Specialthanksgo
to Maribel Yasmina Santos, who made it possible that this book and previous
AGILEConferencebooksarenowindexedbytheISIWebofknowledge,whichis
necessary to make the contributions of our community more visible.
We would also like to thank our sponsors ESRI, Intergraph, Geosparc, the
City of Leuven, the Province of Vlaams-Brabant, the National Geographical
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Institute of Belgium, the Arenberg Doctoral School and Google for their kind
contribution to this conference and Springer Publishers for their willingness to
publish these contributions in their academic series Springer Lecture Notes in
Geoinformation and Cartography.
March 2013 Danny Vandenbroucke
Bénédicte Bucher
Joep Crompvoets
Committees
Programme Committee
Programme Chair Danny Vandenbroucke
KU Leuven, SADL (Belgium)
Programme Co-Chair Bénédicte Bucher
IGN France, COGIT (France)
Programme Co-Chair Joep Crompvoets
KU Leuven, PMI (Belgium)
Local Organising Committee
Catharina Bamps, KU Leuven, SADL (Belgium)
Sofie Bruneel, KU Leuven, KU Leuven, E&ES (Belgium)
Philippe De Maeyer, Ghent University, CartoGIS (Belgium)
Jean-Paul Donnay, University of Liège, Geomatics Unit (Belgium)
Ludo Engelen, KU Leuven, SADL (Belgium)
Kristof Nevelsteen, KU Leuven, SADL (Belgium)
Thérèse Steenberghen, KU Leuven, SADL (Belgium) (Chair)
Jos Van Orshoven, KU Leuven, SADL (Belgium)
Scientific Committee
Trias Aditya, Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia)
Pragya Agarwal, Lancaster University (UK)
Rein Ahas, University of Tartu (Estonia)
Jagannath Aryal, University of Tasmania (Australia)
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Yasushi Asami, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Peter Atkinson, University of Southampton (UK)
Fernando Bação, New University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Itzhak Benenson, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Rohan Bennett, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Lars Bernard, TU Dresden (Germany)
Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin (Ireland)
Ralf Bill, Rostock University (Germany)
Roland Billen, University of Liège (Belgium)
Thomas Blaschke, University of Salzburg (Austria)
Lars Bodum, Aalborg University (Denmark)
Arnold Bregt, Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
Thomas Brinkhoff, Jade University Oldenburg (Germany)
Gilberto Camara, National Institute for Space Research (Brazil)
Tien-Yin Chou, Feng Chia University (Chinese Taipei)
Nicholas Chrisman, University of Laval (Canada)
Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute (France)
Arzu Coeltekin, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Serena Coetzee, University of Pretoria (South Africa)
David Coleman, University of New Brunswick (Canada)
Lex Coomber, University of Leicester (UK)
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Helen Couclelis, University of California (USA)
Max Craglia, European Commission-Joint Research Centre (Italy)
Arie Croitoru, University of Alberta (Canada)
Rolf de By, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Philippe De Maeyer, Ghent University (Belgium)
Michel Deshayes, IRSTEA (France)
Laura Diaz, Universitat Jaume I of Castellón (Spain)
Jürgen Döllner, University of Potsdam (Germany)
Jean-Paul Donnay, University of Liège (Belgium)
Matt Duckham, The University of Melbourne (Australia)
Sara Fabrikant, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Peter Fisher, University of Leicester (UK)
Anders Friis-Christensen, National Survey and Cadastre (Denmark)
Stan Geertman, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Jérôme Gensel, University of Grenoble (France)
Yola Georgiadou, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Michael Gould, ESRI Inc. (USA)
Carlos Granell, European Commission-Joint Research Centre (Italy)
Henning Sten Hansen, Aalborg University (Denmark)
Lars Harrie, Lund University (Sweden)
Francis Harvey, University of Minnesota (USA)
Gerard Heuvelink, Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
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Hartwig Hochmair, University of Florida (USA)
Joaquín Huerta, Universitat Jaume I of Castellón (Spain)
Bashkim Idrizi, State University of Tetova (Republic of Macedonia)
Mike Jackson, University of Nottingham (UK)
Bin Jiang, University of Gävle (Sweden)
Didier Josselin, University of Avignon (France)
Derek Karssenberg, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Tomi Kauppinen, Aalto University (Finland)
Marinos Kavouras, National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
Karen Kemp, University of Southern California (USA)
Thomas Kolbe, TU Munich (Germany)
Menno-Jan Kraak, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Antonio Krüger, Saarland University (Germany)
Werner Kuhn, University of Münster (Germany)
Lars Kulik, The University of Melbourne (Australia)
Barend Köbben, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Patrick Laube, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Robert Laurini, INSA-Lyon (France)
Steve Liang, University of Calgary (Canada)
Miguel Luaces, University of A Coruña (Spain)
Sandra Luque, IRSTEA (France)
Michael Lutz, European Commission-Joint Research Centre (Italy)
Hans-Gerd Maas, TU Dresden (Germany)
Stephan Mäs, TU Dresden (Germany)
Miguel A. Manso Callejo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Bela Markus, University of West Hungary (Hungary)
Ian Masser, University of Sheffield (UK)
Kevin McDougall, University of Southern Queensland (Australia)
Filipe Meneses, University of Minho (Portugal)
Peter Mooney, National University of Ireland Maynooth (Ireland)
Adriano Moreira, University of Minho (Portugal)
Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata (Italy)
Pedro Muro Medrano, University of Zaragoza (Spain)
Zorica Nedovic-Budic, University College Dublin (Ireland)
Javier Nogueras Iso, University of Zaragoza (Spain)
Toshihiro Osaragi, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Volker Paelke, Institute of Geomatics–Castelldefels (Spain)
Marco Painho, New University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Victor Pascual, Instituto Cartgráfico Cataluña (Spain)
Dieter Pfoser, Institute for the Management of Information Systems, RC Athena
(Greece)
Alenka Poplin, HafenCity University Hamburg (Germany)
Poulicos Prastacos, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics FORTH
(Greece)
Florian Probst, SAP Research CEC Darmstadt (Germany)
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Hardy Pundt, University of Applied Sciences Harz (Germany)
Ross Purves, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Martin Raubal, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Tumasch Reichenbacher, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Wolfgang Reinhardt, Universität der Bunderwehr Munich (Germany)
Femke Reitsma, University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
Carmen Reyes Guerrero, CentroGeo (Mexico)
Claus Rinner, Ryerson University (Canada)
Stéphane Roche, University of Laval (Canada)
Julio Rojas-Mora, University of Avignon (France)
Maribel Yasmina Santos, University of Minho (Portugal)
Tapani Sarjakoski, Finnish Geodetic Institute (Finland)
Sven Schade, European Environment Agency (Denmark)
Christoph Schlieder, University of Bamberg (Germany)
Monika Sester, Leibniz University Hannover (Germany)
Takeshi Shirabe, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
Spiros Skiadopoulos, University of Peloponnesse (Greece)
Bettina Speckmann, TU Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
Thérèse Steenberghen, KU Leuven (Belgium)
Emmanuel Stefanakis, University of New Brunswick (Canada)
Jantien Stoter, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
Josef Strobl, University of Salzburg (Austria)
Juan Suárez, Centre for Forest Resources and Management (UK)
Maguelonne Teisseire, IRSTEA (France)
Marius Thériault, University of Laval (Canada)
Fred Toppen, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
David Tulloch, Rutgers University (USA)
Nico Van de Weghe, Ghent University (Belgium)
Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Bastiaan van Loenen, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
Peter van Oosterom, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
Jos Van Orshoven, KU Leuven (Belgium)
Lluis Vicens, Universitat de Girona (Spain)
Luis M. Vilches Blazquez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Marlène Villanova-Oliver, Grenoble University (France)
Monica Wachowicz, University of New Brunswick (Canada)
Robert Weibel, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Stephan Winter, The University of Melbourne (Australia)
Mike Worboys, University of Maine (USA)
Bisheng Yang, Wuhan University (China)
Javier Zarazaga Soria, University of Zaragoza (Spain)
