With the increased availability of very high-resolution satellite imagery, terrain based
imaging and participatory sensing, inexpensive platforms, and advanced information and …

The question whether to use 2D or 3D for data visualization is generally difficult to decide.
Two-dimensional and three-dimensional visualization techniques exhibit different …

" This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of
digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic …

How people in the city perceive their surroundings depends on a variety of dynamic and
static context factors such as road traffic, the feeling of safety, urban architecture, etc. Such …

摘要Web texts contain a great deal of implicit geospatial information, which provide great
potential for the geographic knowledge acquisition and service. Geographic knowledge …

In this article we present GeoTxt, a scalable geoparsing system for the recognition and
geolocation of place names in unstructured text. GeoTxt offers six named entity recognition …

From late afternoon, 17 October 2014, until early on the 20th, 30 researchers met at the
University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories to revisit the spirit of 'critical GIS'in …

Discrete global grid systems (DGGS) have been proposed as a data model for a digital earth
framework. We introduce a new data model and analytics system called IDEAS–integrated …

Many natural language tasks related to geographic information retrieval (GIR) require
toponym recognition, and identifying Chinese toponyms from social media messages to …

This paper investigates recent research on active learning for (geo) text and image
classification, with an emphasis on methods that combine visual analytics and/or deep …