Advances in GIScience

Identification of Practically Visible Spatial Objects in Natural Environments.- Extraction of Features from Mobile Laser Scanning Data for Future Driver Assistance Systems.- Automatic Revision of 2D Building Databases from High Resolution Satellite Imagery: A 3D Photogrammetric Approach.- Accuracy of High-Resolution Radar Images in the Estimation of Plot-Level Forest Variables.- Assessment of Solar Irradiance on the Urban Fabric for the Production of Renewable Energy using LIDAR Data and Image Processing Techniques.- Enhancing 3D City Models with Heterogeneous Spatial Information: Towards 3D Land Information Systems.- Matching River Datasets of Different Scales.- An Approach to Facilitate the Integration of Hydrological Data by means of Ontologies and Multilingual Thesauri.- Applying Instance Visualisation and Conceptual Schema Mapping for Geodata Harmonisation.- Transferring Segmented Properties in the Conflation of Transportation Networks.- Detecting Hotspots in Geographic Networks.- Estimating Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Railroad Users and Its Application to Disaster Prevention Planning.- Rasterizing Census Geography: Definition and Optimization of a Regular Grid.- Towards Semantic Interpretation of Movement Behavior.- Three-Valued 9-Intersection for Deriving Possible Topological Relations from Incomplete Observations.- Modeling Land Use Change: A GIS Based Modeling Framework to Support Integrated Land Use Planning (NabanFrame).- Monitoring System for Assessment of Vegetation Sensitivity to El-Niño over Africa.- A Storage and Transfer Efficient Data Structure for Variable Scale Vector Data.- Line Decomposition Based on Critical Points Detection.- Generalization of 3D Buildings Modelled by CityGML.- 3D Wayfinding Choremes: A Cognitively Motivated Representationof Route Junctions in Virtual Environments.- Towards Geovisual Analysis of Crime Scenes - A 3D Crime Mapping Approach.