ELEMENTS OF SPATIAL DATA QUALITY

By Y. FIRIR

CONTENTS SECTION I SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO SPATIAL DATA QUALITY INTRODUCTION CHAPTER QUERYING VAGUE SPATIAL OBJECTS IN DATABASES WITH VASA ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF DATA WITH A DECISION MODEL SEMANTIC REFERENCE SYSTEMS ACCOUNTING FOR UNCERTAINTY: A REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS ELEMENTS OF SEMANTIC MAPPING QUALITY: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK A MULTICRITERIA FUSION APPROACH FOR GEOGRAPHICAL DATA MATCHING SECTION II GEOSTATISTICS AND SPATIAL DATA QUALITY FOR DEMS INTRODUCTION A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON SPATIAL SAMPLING FOR TOPOGRAPHIC DATA PREDICTIVE RISK MAPPING OF WATER TABLE DEPTHS IN A BRAZILIAN CERRADO AREA MODELING DATA QUALITY WITH POSSIBILITY DISTRIBUTIONS KRIGING AND FUZZY APPROACHES FOR DEM SECTION III ERROR PROPAGATION INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 10 PROPAGATION OF POSITIONAL MEASUREMENT ERRORS TO FIELD OPERATIONS CHAPTER 11 ERROR PROPAGATION ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO PRECISION AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MODELS CHAPTER 12 ASPECTS OF ERROR PROPAGATION IN MODERN GEODETIC NETWORKS CHAPTER 13 ANALYSIS OF THE QUALITY OF COLLECTION 4 AND 5 VEGETATION INDEX TIME SERIES FROM MODIS CHAPTER 14 MODELING DEM DATA UNCERTAINTIES FOR MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS OF ICE SHEET MODELS SECTION IV APPLICATIONS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 15 GEOSTATISTICAL TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION OF TROPICAL RAINFOREST IN INDONESIA CHAPTER 16 QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR POLYGON GENERALIZATION CHAPTER 17 EFFECTIVENESS OF HIGH-RESOLUTION LIDAR DSM FOR TWO- DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMIC FLOOD MODELING IN AN URBAN AREA CHAPTER 18 UNCERTAINTY, VAGUENESS, AND INDISCERNIBILITY: THE IMPACT OF SPATIAL SCALE IN RELATION TO THE LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS CHAPTER 19 A QUALITY-AWARE APPROACH FOR THE EARLY STEPS OF THE INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS CHAPTER 20 ANALYZING AND AGGREGATING VISITOR TRACKS IN A PROTECTED AREA SECTION V COMMUNICATION INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 21 WHAT COMMUNICATES QUALITY TO THE SPATIAL DATA CONSUMER? CHAPTER 22 JUDGING AND VISUALIZING THE QUALITY OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA ON THE KAKAMEGA-NANDI FOREST AREA IN WEST KENYA CHAPTER 23 A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF SCALE-DEPENDENT FACTORS ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF LANDCOVER MAPS CHAPTER 24 FORMAL LANGUAGES FOR EXPRESSING SPATIAL DATA CONSTRAINTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR REPORTING OF QUALITY METADATA EPILOGUE: PUTTING RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE