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Distributed Processing of Large Satellite Images Using MapReduce

Advances in sensor technology and their ever increasing repositories of the collected data are revolutionizing the mechanisms remotely sensed data are collected, stored and processed.  This exponential growth of data archives and the increasing user’s demand for real-and near-real time remote sensing data products has pressurized remote sensing service providers to deliver the required services. The remote sensing community has recognized the challenge in processing large and...

Poster Mr Ermias Tesfamariam, Institute for Geoinformatics
Using GRASS GIS to Calculate Potential Global Solar Irradiation Using Canopy Heights as a Base Elevation Layer to Assist in the Landscape Scale Characterization of Aquatic Habitats

Water temperature variation  can have a significant impact on freshwater aquatic communities .  Elevated temperatures can lead to differences in predator/prey relationships and mortality in relatively non-mobile classes of aquatic species such as mussels.  Using native 64-bit GRASS 6.5 on 64-bit Centos Linux, a previously generated 18.2 m (60 foot) forest canopy height grid for the State of North Carolina ( 17237 Rows and 45102 columns )  was used as a base elevation...

Poster Doug Newcomb, Department of Interior- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Advancing Geospatially-enabled Scientific Workflow Environments with FOSS4G

This paper discusses advances in the development of a software environment with capabilities for accessing, utilising and incorporating geospatial data and processes into the scientific workflows of researchers interested in incorporating earth observation and geospatial analysis into their work. In previous work [McFerren et. al. 2010], we introduced the concept of geospatially-enabled scientific workflows; this paper shares progress made, insights gained and future research avenues exposed...

Poster
Mr Graeme McFerren, CSIR
Dr Terence van Zyl
Dr Anwar Vahed
Mr Bheki Cwele
Mr Derek Hohls
Ms Bolelang Sibolla
FOSS4G CRUD Benchmark

Performance shoot-outs are being presented each year, at FOSS4G events1. The effort being made to prepare the benchmark, and the code changes returning back to the community resulting from this exercise are really helping to improve the software.

Currently, many web mapping applications are two way, in the sense that these applications are used to present and collect geospatial data from users. The examples ranges from sharing cycling tracks (with lots of points) to urban management...

Poster
Jorge Rocha, Universidade do Minho
José Silva
Virtual Globes For Environmental Analysis

Virtual Globes were initially released as effective and intuitive tools to view satellite and aerial photos directly superimposed on the three-dimensional model of the globe. The constant update of increasingly accurate and detailed images and the ability to customize the content through the direct mapping on the globe of any geographically localized phenomenon (physical, environmental, social, etc.), has increased not only the common and popular use of virtual globes but has also offered...

Poster
Prof Maria Antonia Brovelli, Polytechnic of Milan - Como Campus
Eng Giorgio Zamboni
Decision Support System for Environmental Regulation and Licensing

The Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, decentralized unit of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), is developing a system for environmental regulation and licensing, called SISLA - Interactive System Support for Environmental Licensing. At first, the system is being used by the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, and the peculiarities of the system to specifically meet this state are being developed in partnership with the Environment Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul (Imasul)....

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MSc Eduardo Antonio Speranza M.Sc., Embrapa Informática Agropecuária
Dr Silvia Maria Fonseca Silveira Massruhá Ph.D.
Silva, João dos Santos Vila
Akamine, Willlian Hiroki
Vendrusculo, Laurimar Gonçalves
Lima, Helano Póvoas
An Open Source Mapping Application for Hatchery Release Data in the Columbia River Basin

The Fish Passage Center (FPC) maintains a hatchery database of anadromous salmonid species released from State, Federal, and Tribal hatcheries in the Columbia River Basin. This database is updated routinely throughout the fish passage season. Over the past year, the location of the hatcheries and the release sites were mapped and an online mapping application was developed to allow the users of this database a spatial view of where hatcheries have released anadromous salmonids throughout...

Poster Lynnae Sutton, Fish Passage Center
Exploratory visual pattern detection of mobile object data in attribute-time space

Recent years witnessed the emergence of massive individual-based movement data due to the location-aware devices such as global positioning system (GPS), mobile phones and radio-frequency identification (RFID). These data are overwhelming the techniques of traditional spatial analytic techniques. Researchers and practitioners are turning to spatio-temporal knowledge discovery and exploratory visualization techniques to find patterns, trends and relationships hidden in the large volume mobile...

Poster Dr Tetsuo Kobayashi, University of Utah
OPeNDAP vs. WCS

Numerical models, such as hydrodynamic and climate models, produce output with a large number of variables and a large number of grid cells and time steps. Further use of the resulting data products has been challenging, especially for further use outside the institute of origin. Due to the vastness of the data, simply downloading copies of data is impossible. Web services are therefore used to access subsets of the data. The most mature candidates for working with gridded data are OPeNDAP...

Poster
Fedor Baart
Gerben de Boer
Gennadii Donchyts
Maarten Plieger
Wim de Haas
The Provincial Information System Using Free and Open Source Software in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

The province of East Kalimantan located in Borneo island is one of the largest province in Indonesia. With an area and population approximately similar to the State of Oregon, the provincial government tries to manage effectively the natural and human resources. A web-based information system is an option to display and share the potency of East Kalimantan province. The purpose of such application is to provide a complete spatial information of East Kalimantan in a web GIS. The users are not...

Poster
Dr Gatot Haryo Pramono, Bakosurtanal
Mr Edwin Hendrayana
Mr Sajatmiko Wibowo
geo-spatial.org: The Reference Point for the Romanian FOSS4G Community

geo-spatial.org is a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps. It was created by a small team of young scientists as an attempt to overcome the Romanian specific geospatial dysfunctions.

Anyone can make a contribution by submitting articles or datasets for publication, adding comments to the existing articles, join the discussion on the mailing list or...

Poster
Mr Vasile Crăciunescu, Romanian National Meteorological Administration
Mr Ștefan Constantinescu
Ionuț Ovejanu
FOSS Tools for Geospatial and Agent Based Modelling to Evaluate Climate Change in an Agricultural Watershed

Land-use changes are typically modeled using geographic information systems because of the spatial nature of the data. But the complexity of coupled human and natural systems and the fourth dimension involved with change over time and time-series data expose some limitations of GIS tools when used on their own. In this paper we present the application of REPAST, a free and open source geospatial Multi-agent Model (a.k.a. Agent-based Model or ABM) to the dynamic simulation of greenhouse gas...

Poster
Dr Alireza Ghaffari, York University
Dr Martin Bunch
Dr Rod MacRae
Joseph Zhao
An innovative web services based GIS architecture for global biogeographic analyses of species distributions

Spatial patterns and properties of species richness in natural communities are of keen interest to biogeographers and conservation biologists as they describe key features of the location and distribution of the earth's biological diversity. Patterns of species richness are determined by constituent species range sizes, spatial locations of those ranges, species associations, co-occurrence and species interactions. Analysis of these phenomena at biogeographical scales, i.e. continental to...

Poster Jeffery Cavner, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas
Delineating Service Areas of Public Facilities

Defining the service areas of public facilities is an important task in urban planning. It is essential in assessing the quality, efficiency, and equity of all sorts of service provisions. In addition, delineating service areas is a prerequisite in many location analysis and spatial optimization applications.

Delineating the service areas of facilities can be a very complex process. Depending on the characteristics of the public facilities and the scale of spatial data, facilities can...

Poster
Kunsheng Fang, North Carolina State University
Hugh Devine
Stacy Supak
Introducing DotSpatial - an Open Source .NET GIS Framework

DotSpatial is a free, open source, set of libraries developed on the Microsoft .NET framework which provides projection, visualization, and extensibility features. DotSpatial allows rapid development and deployment of C# and VB.NET based spatial data, analysis, and mapping applications. DotSpatial has been downloaded over 25000 times since the project started in April 2010, has 74 team members. This presentation will provide an introduction to the DotSpatial project including, goals, target...

Poster
Mr Matthew Klein, ISU
Dr Daniel Ames
Thresholds of Proprietary Software Tolerance... (Open Source on Windows?!)

At first blush, Codeplex.com appears to be a self-contained oxymoron of a web site because it is developed and maintained by Microsoft to support the open source software community - especially projects based on Microsoft's .NET platform. Indeed, such a web site should not exist, and definitely should not succeed (though it is...) After all, who would want to create an open source software project -- ostensibly founded on the notion that free idea exchange is of even greater value than a...

Poster Dr Daniel Ames, Idaho State University
Analysis of medium and small scale Digital Surface Models with respect to slope and aspect

The work is about preliminary analysis for DSM errors distribution evaluation.

Three digital models were taken in consideration: the SRTM DSM (step around 90m), the ASTER DSM (step around 30m) and the DSM provided by Lombardia Region (step 2m).
The analysis was performed in an area including the walled city of Como and part of the Como province around; in the chosen area a LiDAR dataset, provided by the Lombardia Region, was also available.

At first the LiDAR data were...

Poster
Prof Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, DIIAR, Polo regionale di Como
Eng Sara Lucca
Integrating Social Attitudes and Spatial Data in Siting Power Lines

Siting of energy transmission power lines based on physical and regulatory constraints is a challenging and complicated multivariable spatial optimization problem for which GIS is well suited. Existing techniques typically include rasterization of constraint feature layers; application of a layer weighting and combination scheme using map algebra; and ultimately evaluation of optimal paths using least cost path analysis. Such an approach does not explicitly take into account social attitudes...

Poster
Mr Robert Beazer, Idaho State University
Dr Daniel Ames
Development of QGIS plugin for an user friendly management of climatological data in Italy

The study of potential dangerous events due to extreme meteorological conditions such as hail, wind and rainfall has been made at national scale in order to define a synthetic index representing the climatological hazard for administrative units in cartographic form.

The aims of this work is to provide the insurance companies and decision makers with user friendly Open GIS tools for analysis of meteorological parameters at a municipality scale over Italy.
qSIGAV is a plugin...

Poster
Dr Tiziana De Filippis, National Research Council - Institute of Biometeorology
PerInd Leandro Rocchi
Giulio Castagnini
Fabio Straccali
PRIO-GRID: A Unified Spatial Data Structure

Contributions to the quantitative civil war literature increasingly rely on geo-referenced data and disaggregated research designs. While this is a welcome trend, it necessitates geographic information systems (GIS) skills and imposes new challenges for data collection and analysis. So far, solutions to these challenges differ between studies, hampering replication and extension of earlier work. This article presents a standardized structure for storing, manipulating, and analyzing high-...

Poster
Mr Andreas F Tollefsen, Peace Research Institute Oslo
Mr Håvard Strand
Halvard Buhaug
Integrating Open-Source GIS in a Computerized Blotter System

Public safety and security is an important issue especially to a growing metropolis such as Manila. With this, information about crimes and its analysis is of great importance not only to the police but as well as the general public. Studies show that there is a high correlation of crime and geography. Unfortunately, the current blotter system of most police precincts overlooks the accurate locations of crime. Integrating a Geographic Information System (GIS) to a blotter system will add a...

Poster
Mr Sorvigenaleon Ildefonso, Feati University
Engr Jessie Linn Ablao
Cadatal M.E.
Braceros A.D.
Castillejos C.M.C.
Ocba M.G.I.
Fuentes R.A.P.
Dalogdog R.Z.
Punongbayan A.P.
Reyes M.S.R.
Paringit M.C.R.
Embracing Web 2.0 and GIS to Enhance Public Participation in Science

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift towards transdisciplinary research. Such projects require a unique integration of skill and communication. The integration of academic disciplines resulting from these endeavors creates a unique challenge, particularly for data management and analysis. The explosion in availability of spatial data has further exacerbated this problem as researchers and the public alike are enticed by the utility of such data sets. With the advent of Web 2.0, the...

Poster Mr Shaun Langley, Michigan State University
Design and development of a SpatiaLite geodatabase data provider for the DotSpatial GIS application development framework

Geospatial databases (geodatabases) provide an efficient method for managing large GIS datasets and allowing efficient sharing of data by multiple users. SpatiaLite is a portable file based open source geodatabase that is supported by a growing number of GIS systems. The latest platform with support for SpatiaLite is the DotSpatial system, an open source framework for creating custom GIS applications in C# or VB.NET programming languages. This presentation includes a discussion of SpatiaLite...

Poster
Jiří Kadlec, Idaho State University
Daniel Ames
Shortest Hyperpath search for public transportation: A java web application

 In cities where public transport does not follow a schedule and the user can only know the frequency of each route, a web tool was programmed to indicate the shortest routes where it’s considered more than one mode of transport and more than one possible combination of modes to reach a given destination. The web application was made for the University City campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where the public transports available are buses, bicycles, in...

Poster
MI David López Flores, Instituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Centro de Investigación en Geografía y Geomática
MCS Pablo López Ramirez
Education, research and development in an institutional cooperation towards the establishment of an open source GIS platform

This study presents research and development outcomes and future plans of a collaboration program in GIS in Budapest, Hungary. Since 2004, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Informatics grants home to a Geographic Information System educational module with the following courses: Introduction to Cartography, Geoinformatics, Spatial Databases, Remote Sensing Image Analysis, and GIS Application Development. This module has been completed by over 400 students to this date. In terms of...

Poster
Roberto Giachetta, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
István László
István Elek
István Fekete
The Oklahoma/Kansas cyberCommons: An Ecological Informatics Research Laboratory

Integrative ecological research efforts often collapses under the weight of the massive amounts of data they hope to integrate. We share our approach to addressing this by building a loosely-coupled data and analysis toolkit. This toolkit draws heavily from from FOSS4G, OGC services and open standards to enhance scientific analysis capabilities. We share several examples where we organize, process, enhance and expose spatiotemporal datasets, such as: 1) weather radar reflectivity data before...

Poster
Mr Jonah Duckles, University of Oklahoma
Mr Mark Stacy
Mr Brian Cremeans
Efficient Vehicle Tracking with Open Source Tools

Vehicle detection and tracking is a common use for manned and unmanned airborne video systems particularly the new class of wide area persistent surveillance systems. This presentation discusses a technique for near real-time vehicle detection and tracking using open source tools such as Opticks and OpenCV. A combination of existing techniques was adapted for use with high spatial resolution and low temporal resolution data.

Poster
Trevor Clarke, Opticks
Roxanne Canosa
Enhancing the Use of Python in GIS and Remote Sensing

This abstract outlines the development of a geographic information systems (GIS) Programming and Remote Sensing course at American River College using Python and Opticks (http://opticks.org) open source image processing software for use with remotely sensed imagery. The author has developed a fully on-line GIS course and text for developing and using Python for ArcGIS in addition to developing and using the Opticks Python scripting...

Poster Nathan Jennings, American River College/Opticks
Geographic Reference Interface For Internet Networks

Geographic Reference Interface For Internet Networks (GRIFIN) is an experimental platform for exchanging spatio-temporal objects designed since 2005 primarily by Jan Kolar.

The goal of this effort is to consolidate research on next generation geographic systems, by the project participants as well as others, through designing a platform that could form a common core for research.

The purpose of the platform is to publish and exchange geo-referenced objects.

The term...

Poster Jan Kolar PhD, Grifinor Project
A Fast Search Mechanism for Multiple Raster Layers in MapWindow Open Source GIS

GIS raster data is a representation of cells or pixels arranged in rows and columns, where each cell signifies an attribute value representing different data types, such as slope, aspect, elevation, or temperature. Identifying and selecting the cells of a specific attribute value in the GIS programming world can be done fast in a single GIS raster layer. A problem might rise when the GIS programmer attempts to select a combination of multi values in exact cell locations in multi raster...

Poster
Mr Ahmad Aburizaiza, George Mason University
Dr Matthew Rice
Mr William Hammill
A Vivid Relic Under Rapid Transformation

KMSTR, the transformation system of the Danish National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), has served as the official tool for transformation between Danish map projections and horizontal and vertical datums for half a century. The system originated as a fairly simple implementation of a few conformal mappings, using one of the first compilers for the Algol-60 language. But it has evolved dramatically since then and survived through a range of three programming languages (Algol, Fortran, C), and a...

Poster
Dr Thomas Knudsen, National Survey and Cadastre
Dr Simon Kokkendorff
Dr. Karsten Engsager
Dr. Karsten Bormann
VisREACHER: A FOSS Environmental Decision Support Systems for Odense River Basin in Demark

Environmental process researches express the complex model results by using complicated style, e.g. functions, tables, diagraphs and so on. Furthermore, running those models can take large amount of time. These will add the difficulties of decision support process especially when the stakeholders are not experts of this disciplinary. Therefore, the user interface design for such a system is very important which should maintain the scientific model structure and also simplify the interaction...

Poster
Msc Xuan Zhu Ms
Prof Arthur Mynett Mr
Ann Van Griensven
Yunqing Xuan
Quantifying the impact of land use on the nitrogen cycle

 Better knowledge of the impacts of large scale land use on water quality are needed to act on urbanism and country planning at the scale of a global watershed, as outlined in the European Water and Wetlands law.

Nitrogen is one of the most important pollutants in surface waters and comes from different sources. In this study, remote sensing techniques and Geographical Information Systems have been used successfully to monitor and quantify the sources of Nitrogen on the scale of...

Poster
Sylvain Maillard, la Tour du Valat
Alain Sandoz PhD
Jean-Luc Boudenne PhD
Opticks Open Source Remote Sensing and Image Processing Software, a Community College GIS Program, and Collaboration

Nathan Jennings, GIS professor at American River College in Sacramento, California has currently been using the Opticks open source digital image processing software (produced and provided freely by Ball Aerospace) for remotely sensed imagery and serves as the primary software used in the required Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing course. With very tight budgets across the Los Rios Community College District, open source software such as Opticks has allowed this required course to...

Poster Nathan Jennings, American River College/Opticks
The Beta Version of Git Toolkit for Curricula for GIScience

 The Board of Directors of the GIS Association of Japan (GISA) formed a working group to study GIS education curricula on October, 2002.
And in 2009, they completed Geographic Information Science (GIScience) Core Curriculum in Japan. However it means just core information like the item. That succession working group is concentrating on the making of contents now. In addition, we have to make more useful education toolkit for GIScience.

The education of Geographic...

Poster
Mr Taichi Furuhashi, University of Tokyo
Dr Koichi Kubota
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