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Water availability is one of the main limiting factors that control ecosystem functions and productivity in semiarid regions. Vegetation of these regions usually presents a patchy distribution where sparse plant cover is...

The author addresses, in an original way and with a recognized methodological rigor, the study of the constructive conditions of urban housing that was promoted in the city of Manizales (central western Colombia) in a ti...

The capabilities for visualization, rapid data retrieval, and manipulation in geographic information systems (GIS) have created the need for new techniques of exploratory data analysis that focus on the “spatial” asp...

Although geospatial question answering systems have received increasing attention in recent years, existing prototype systems struggle to properly answer qualitative spatial questions. In this work, we propose a unique f...

Multiscale feature extraction from the visual environment in an active vision system Y.Machrouh 1, J.-S.Liénard 1, P.Tarroux 1, 2 Abstract. This paper presents a visual architecture able to identify salient regions in a...

Subjects / keywords: photogrammetry, remote sensing, spatial information systems, computer vision; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Geography (General); Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Surveying

Subjects / keywords: remote sensing, earth sciences, earth observations, spatial information systems; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Physical geography; Science

Subjects / keywords: geography, spatial analysis, sustainability, built environment, geographical information systems; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation

Subjects / keywords: regional science, urban and regional policy analysis, spatial statistics, geographical information systems, inter-industry analysis, behavioural modelling of location; Social Sciences: Industries. Land use. Labor; Social...

The description of coherent features of fluid flow is essential to our understanding of fluid-dynamical and transport processes. A method is introduced that is able to extract dynamic information from flow fields that ar...

Subjects / keywords: cartography, remote sensing, geophysics, geographic information systems, engineering surveying, geodesy; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Mathematical geography. Cartography; Science: Astronomy: Geodesy

Subjects / keywords: geographical information science, geographic information systems, computer applications; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Geography (General)