Advancing Geoinformation Science for a Changing World
The book comprises innovative research presented at the 14th Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE), held in 2011 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The scientific papers cover a large variety of fundamental resea
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S.C.M. Geertman • W.P. Reinhardt F.J. Toppen Editors
Advancing Geoinformation Science for a Changing World
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Editors Stan Geertman Faculty of Geosciences Utrecht University Heidelberglaan 2 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands [email protected]
Wolfgang Reinhardt AGIS / Faculty of Computer Science University of the Bundeswehr Munich Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg Germany [email protected]
Fred Toppen Faculty of Geosciences Utrecht University Heidelberglaan 2 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands [email protected]
ISSN 1863-2246 e-ISSN 1863-2351 e-ISBN 978-3-642-19789-5 ISBN 978-3-642-19788-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-19789-5 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011925152 c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: SPi Publisher Services Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE) was established in early 1998 to promote academic teaching and research on GIS at the European level. Since then, the annual AGILE conference has gradually become the leading GIScience conference in Europe and provides a multidisciplinary forum for scientific knowledge production and dissemination. In that, it can be regarded a full successor of the preceding EGIS (European Conference on Geographical Information Systems) and JECC (Joint European Conferences and Collaboration) conferences, which dominated the European GI-conference scene during the nineties. For the fifth consecutive year the AGILE conference promoted the edition of a book with the collection of scientific papers that were submitted as full-papers. Those papers went through a competitive review process. The 14th AGILE conference call for full-papers of original and unpublished fundamental scientific research resulted in 70 submissions, of which 26 were accepted for publication in this volume after a thorough selection and review process (acceptance rate of 37%). The papers submitted to our Program Committee all can be considered to contribute to the ‘Advancing Geoinformation Science for a Changing World’, which is the overall
