Geospatial Thinking
For the fourth consecutive year, the Association of Geographic Infor- tion Laboratories for Europe (AGILE) promoted the edition of a book with the collection of the scientific papers that were submitted as full-papers to the AGILE annual international con
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Marco Painho · Maribel Yasmina Santos · Hardy Pundt Editors
Geospatial Thinking
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Editors Prof. Marco Painho Universidade Nova Lisboa Inst. Superior Estatistica e Gestao Informacao (ISEGI) Depto. Estatistica & Economia Travessa Estevao Pinto 1070-312 Lisboa Campus de Campolide Portugal [email protected]
Prof. Maribel Yasmina Santos Universidade do Minho Depto. Sistemas de Informacao Campus de Azurem 4800-058 Guimaraes Portugal [email protected]
Prof. Hardy Pundt University of Applied Sciences Harz Dept. for Automation Computer Science Friedrichstr. 57-59 38855 Wernigerode Germany [email protected]
ISSN 1863-2246 e-ISSN 1863-2351 ISBN 978-3-642-12325-2 e-ISBN 978-3-642-12326-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-12326-9 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010924734 c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 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: deblik Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
For the fourth consecutive year, the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE) promoted the edition of a book with the collection of the scientific papers that were submitted as full-papers to the AGILE annual international conference. Those papers went through a competitive review process. The 13th AGILE conference call for fullpapers of original and unpublished fundamental scientific research resulted in 54 submissions, of which 21 were accepted for publication in this volume (acceptance rate of 39%). Published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, this book is associated to the 13th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2010 in Guimarães, Portugal, under the title “Geospatial Thinking”. The efficient use of geospatial information and related technologies assumes the knowledge of concepts that are fundamental components of Geospatial Thinking, which is built on reasoning processes, spatial conceptualizations, and representation methods. Geospatial Thinking is associated with a set of cognitive skills consisting of several forms of knowledge and cognitive operators used to transform, combine or, in any other way, act on that
