Advances in Geoinformatics: VIII Brazilian Symposium on Geoinformatics, GEOINFO 2006, Campos do Jordão (SP), Brazil, November 19-22, 2006

Computational Geometry and Visualization.- Consistent Handling of Linear Features in Polyline Simplification.- Cartographical Data Treatment Analysis for Real Time Three-Dimensional Terrain Visualization.- A More Efficient Method for Map Overlay in Terralib.- Spatial Databases.- Exploiting Type and Space in a Main Memory Query Engine.- Approximate Query Processing in Spatial Databases Using Raster Signatures.- A Rule-Based Optimizer for Spatial Join Algorithms.- Spatial Query Broker in a Grid Environment.- TerraHS: Integration of Functional Programming and Spatial Databases for GIS Application Development.- Spatial Ontologies and Interoperability.- An Algorithm and Implementation for GeoOntologies Alignment.- Querying a Geographic Database using an Ontology-Based Methodology.- A Method for Defining Semantic Similarities between GML Schemas.- Interoperability among Heterogeneous Geographic Objects.- Distributed GIS / GIS and the Internet.- Web Service for Cooperation in Biodiversity Modeling.- Evaluation of OGC Web Services for Local Spatial Data Infrastructures and for the Development of Clients for Geographic Information Systems.- Towards Gazetteer Integration through an Instance-based Thesauri Mapping Approach.- WS-GIS: Towards a SOA-Based SDI Federation.- Geostatistics, Spatial Statistics and Spatial Analysis.- Electricity Consumption as a Predictor of Household Income: a Spatial Statistics Approach.- Shiryaev-Roberts Method to Detect Space-Time Emerging Clusters.- Testing association between origin-destination spatial locations.- Applications.- GIS Development for Energy Distribution Network Restoration with an Integrated Interface.

From the reviews:
“Advances in Geoinformatics benefits not only professionals in geoinformatics but also those who are interested in new research works and ideas in the geospatial information science community in its broadest sense. … The book editors … have provided a well-organized set of individual papers to grasp recent developments and efforts in the field of geoinformatics. … it would be enjoyable read for those who are interested in computational science and software engineering aspects of geospatial information science and the latest innovative approaches to them.” (Dong Han Kim, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, Vol. 2 (3), October, 2009)

Presents a number of advancements in the field of Geo.