Interoperating Geographic Information Systems: Second International Conference, INTEROP'99, Zurich, Switzerland, March 10-12, 1999 Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 1580

Interoperability: Invited Contributions.- Mediation to Deal with Heterogeneous Data Sources.- OpenGIS: Tales from a Small Market Town.- Evolution of EO/GIS Interoperability towards an Integrated Application Infrastructure.- Identification.- Feature Identities, Descriptors, and Handles.- A Global Unique Persistent Object ID for Geospatial Information Sharing.- Infrastructure.- Implementation Architecture for a National Data Center.- Architecture Considerations for Advanced Earth Observation Application Systems.- A Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Hindu Kush – Himalayan Region:.- Interoperability for GIScience Education.- Implementation.- Adding an Interoperable Server Interface to a Spatial Database: Implementation Experiences with OpenMapTM.- Interoperability in Practice: Problems in Semantic Conversion from Current Technology to OpenGIS.- Building a Prototype OpenGIS® Demonstration from Interoperable GIS Components.- Vectors and Graphics.- Modeling and Sharing Graphic Presentationsof Geospatial Data.- Towards OpenGIS Systems.- Semantics.- Semantic and Geometric Aspects of Integrating Road Networks.- Assessing Semantic Similarities among Geospatial Feature Class Definitions.- Proceeding on the Road of Semantic Interoperability – Design of a Semantic Mapper Based on a Case Study from Transportation.- What Are Sports Grounds?.- Heterogeneous Databases.- Identifying Semantically Similar Elements in Heterogeneous Spatial Databases Using Predicate Logic Expressions.- Designing a Mediator for Managing Relationships between Distributed Objects.- Geospatial Mediator Functions and Container-Based Fast Transfer Interface in Si3CO Test-Bed.- Plug and Play: Interoperability in Concert.- Representation.- Functional Extensions of a Raster Representation for Topological Relations.- 3D Synthetic Environment Representation Using the “Non-Manifold 3D Winged-Edge” Data Structure.- Pluggable Terrain Module – Moving Digital Terrain Modelling to a Distributed Geoprocessing Environment.

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