Geographic Information Science: 5th International Conference, GIScience 2008, Park City, UT, USA, September 23-26, 2008, Proceedings / Edition 1

Query Responsive Index Structures.- Refining Topological Relations between Regions Considering Their Shapes.- Noisy Road Network Matching.- Detecting Topological Change Using a Wireless Sensor Network.- Uncovering Hidden Spatial Patterns by Hidden Markov Model.- Modeling Herds and Their Evolvements from Trajectory Data.- New Data Types and Operations to Support Geo-streams.- Turn to the Left or to the West: Verbal Navigational Directions in Relative and Absolute Frames of Reference.- Effect of Neighborhood on In-Network Processing in Sensor Networks.- Similarity-Based Information Retrieval and Its Role within Spatial Data Infrastructures.- Geosensor Data Abstraction for Environmental Monitoring Application.- The 9?+?-Intersection: A Universal Framework for Modeling Topological Relations.- Decentralized Movement Pattern Detection amongst Mobile Geosensor Nodes.- A Framework for Sensitivity Analysis in Spatial Multiple Criteria Evaluation.- Reasoning on Spatial Relations between Entity Classes.- Identifying Maps on the World Wide Web.- Improving Localization in Geosensor Networks through Use of Sensor Measurement Data.- Simplest Instructions: Finding Easy-to-Describe Routes for Navigation.- Road Networks and Their Incomplete Representation by Network Data Models.- A Theory of Change for Attributed Spatial Entities.- Delineation of Valleys and Valley Floors.- Single-Holed Regions: Their Relations and Inferences.- Validation and Storage of Polyhedra through Constrained Delaunay Tetrahedralization.- Ontology-Based Geospatial Data Query and Integration.