Climate science has become more ambitious in recent years as global awareness about the
environment has grown. To better understand climate, historical climate (eg archived …

摘要Web texts contain a great deal of implicit geospatial information, which provide great
potential for the geographic knowledge acquisition and service. Geographic knowledge …

Big data emerged as a new paradigm to provide unprecedented content and value for
Digital Earth. Big Earth data are increasing tremendously with growing heterogeneity …

Manifold providers from a wide range of initiatives (private organizations, volunteered efforts,
social media, etc.) offer enormous data amounts with geospatial characteristics. These …

Searching for a property is inherently a multicriteria spatial decision. The decision is
primarily based on three high-level criteria composed of household needs, building facilities …

Geovisualisation is a knowledge-intensive art in which both providers and users need to
possess a wide range of knowledge. Current syntactic approaches to presenting …

In high-density cities, pedestrians frequently traverse many publicly accessible indoor
spaces, such as metro stations and footbridges, which seamlessly connect with outdoor …

Provenance, a metadata component referring to the origin and the processes undertaken to
obtain a specific geographic digital feature or product, is crucial to evaluate the quality of …

The advent of Web 2.0 has emerged abundant but often unstructured user-generated
georeferenced data, such as those from Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) …

The world is transforming into a predominantly urban space, meaning that cities have to be
ready to provide services, for instance, to ensure availability and sustainable management …