Spatial Databases

This paper deals with memory management issues of robotics. In our proposal we break one of the major
issues in creating humanoid. . Database issue is the complicated thing in robotics schema design here in
our proposal we suggest new concept called NOSQL database for the effective data retrieval, so that the
humanoid robots will get the massive thinking ability in searching each items using chained instructions.
For query transactions in robotics we need an effective consistency transactions so by using latest
technology called CloudTPS which guarantees full ACID properties so that the robot can make their
queries using multi-item transactions through this we obtain data consistency in data retrievals. In addition
we included map reduce concepts it can splits the job to the respective workers so that it can process the
data in a parallel way.

The known history of the Old Town of Rethymno, Crete goes back to the Venetian period. From the beginning of the 20 th century a number of construction interventions changed the appearance of several buildings of the town. Recently the Municipality of Rethmnon has created a special department for monitoring the numerous development works within the old town. In collaboration with the abovementioned department, the Institute for Mediterranean Studies -F.O.R.T.H. has developed a relational database and a Geographical Information System for the documentation, protection and preservation of the buildings of the Old Town of Rethymno. The final product can be used by the Municipality of Rethymno, the local Department of Antiquities and individual researchers and it can be considered as a pilot system for the management of the cultural resources of the historical centers within an urban environment.

Our work focuses on the assessment of trends, erosion states and causal risk factors for soil erosion of the Asfalou watershed through the use of the Priority Actions Program/Regional Activity Center (PAP/RAC). This qualitative study model for water erosion makes it possible to assess susceptibility and determine potential fragile areas in order to diagnose the state of soil degradation. We adopted the PAP/RAC crossed matrices, the geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) to develop the classical modelling. This method is based on three main approaches: predictive, descriptive and integration. Introducing soil types, slope length (LS) and climatic factors into our model, including rainfall erosivity (R), slope exposure, soil moisture index (SMI) and land surface temperature (LST), improved the reliability of our model. The correlation analysis identified these factors that explain erosion states and the risk of soil erosion. The coefficients of determination (R2) of the various erosive states resulting from the modified PAP/RAC approach explain respectively 98.30%, 77% and 49.3% of the observed variability of the erosive states. These factors provide information on the current state of soil degradation depending on the degree of influence of the different factors that control erosion. The descriptive approach has shown that soil loss manifests itself in different forms, whether for sheet erosion (L) and ravines (C1) successively affecting 79.95% and 17.84% of the land. The integration approach identifies factors and areas requiring intervention to counter the effects of soil erosion in the Asfalou watershed effectively and sustainably.

Blocks of flats are the most abundant built element in many cities and their quality is an important issue. Undergraduate students often occupy these accommodations and this group describes a wide range of housing situations that makes it possible to assess their quality. This research aims to describe the data collection strategy in an ongoing research project in the city of A Coruña (Spain), oriented towards assessing the ordinary blocks of flats where the students live (shared flats, apartments). The method uses several sources (a questionnaire, cartographic viewers, the cadastre, and municipal historical archives) and a sophisticated strategy to be non-intrusive, efficient, and user-friendly. This information would allow an understanding of both students’ changes of residence and their locations within the city. Formal methods are applied to estimate ordinary interior designs based on external configurations and consequently verify them with users and public archives. This holistic strategy creates a georeferenced database by adopting efficient procedures, thus reducing user inquiries. The case of A Coruña confirms the variability of housing conditions and the complex phenomena involved, including possible correlations between housing quality and economic/social parameters, which can be studied with the developed database.

Wetland environments are amongst the most dynamic landscapes of Europe. Because of their distinct geomorphological characteristics, they are strongly susceptible for changes in climate, demography, economy and politics. At the same time, these regions reflect areas of long-term human-landscape interactions and outstanding preservation conditions. Large parts of the northern and western Netherlands can be regarded as typical examples of such wetlands. After becoming covered by vast peat marshes over time, these areas were largely reclaimed during the last millennium, which has resulted in a typical landscape consisting of polders and elaborate water-management systems (e.g. canals, dikes, fenlands). This is especially true for the western wetlands, which also are part of the delta of two of the largest European rivers, the Rhine and Meuse.

In this area, processes of flooding, fluvial activity and sea-level changes have greatly influenced the landscape, resulting in a very dynamic environment for local inhabitants. Already in the Middle Ages (ad 1050–1500), elaborate organisations and hydraulic systems were set up in these parts in order to ensure water safety and promote water drainage. Through time, these organisations, the so-called waterboards, have greatly influenced the spatial layout of these wetlands and, in doing so, collected huge amounts of data on water management. For the first time, recent digital developments in geosciences and humanities allow us to diachronically unravel the complex interplay between natural and cultural dynamics in such wetlands.

In this paper, we present a Historical Geographical Information System (HGIS) designed for modelling heritage in wetland areas. The HGIS specifically focuses on water-management systems in the wetlands of the western Netherlands. We show that (1) our HGIS and GIScience methodology facilitates an integrated and multi-proxy approach towards studying historical water-management systems, and (2) the developed system is highly suited for unravelling the complex interplay and interdependencies between drainage systems, waterboards and engineering works. Additionally, it becomes clear that by combining information on the past with the present, the HGIS is an extremely useful tool for modern-day policymaking facing future challenges.

The collection of 3D point data is a common bottleneck for archaeological excavations despite an increasing range of powerful spatial data collection technologies. Total stations often require a dedicated operator, and they are optimal for excavation-level data collection over relatively short line-of-site distances. Precision Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) require reliable communication with constellations of distant satellites and may not be accurate enough for all data recording contexts. A new category of spatial data collection hardware, called Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS), or “indoor GPS,” has the potential to provide a more cost-effective and efficient approach to the collection of point data during excavations by making 3D point data collection widely available and accessible. Additionally, such systems may allow greater detail in digital field data recording by enabling the collection of shape data via continuous recording. In this article, we present one such IPS system—the Marvelmind IPS—discuss its potential value and limitations, and provide a case study of a field test of the system at the Chalcolithic (4600–3600 BC) site of Horvat Duvshan, Israel.

Berdasarkan Undang-undang Republik Indonesia Nomor 4 Tahun 2011 tentang Informasi Geospasial, telah diberlakukan Peraturan Kepala Badan Informasi Geospasial (BIG) Nomor 12 tahun 2013 tentang Standar Prosedur Penyimpanan dan Mekanisme Penyimpanan untuk Pengarsipan Data Geospasial dan Informasi Geospasial dimana Data Geospasial (DG) dan Informasi Geospasial (IG) perlu disimpan dalam tempat yang aman dan tidak rusak atau hilang untuk menjamin ketersediaan Informasi Geospasial.
Pusdata Kementerian Pekerjaan Umum sebagai unit kliring data spasial memiliki peran yang startegis untuk mengelola data spasial yang ada di lingkungan Kementerian Pekerjaan Umum. Kondisi ketersedian data spasial di Pusdata saat ini berkembang cukup pesat dengan berbagai jenis dan sumber data spasial. Oleh karenanya diperlukan pengembangan aplikasi pengelolaan data spasial berbasis raster untuk mengelola pengarsipan data spasial yang sudah ada kedalam aplikasi katalog data spasial berbasis WebGIS yang dapat diakses secara langsung di lingkungan internal maupun eksternal.
Pengembangan aplikasi ini menggunakan perangkat open license, seperti PostGIS dan ArcGIS API berbasis Java Script dengan pendekatan arsitektur berbasis client server. Metode system development life cycle digunakan untuk menggambarkan proses perencanaan, implementasi, uji coba, dan diseminasi dari sistem pengelolaan data spasial di Kementerian Pekerjaan Umum.

How to study the specificity of television series building evolving, shapeshifting, open, fragmented narratives? Questioning the use of the notion of complexity within and beyond narratology, this article proposes to read television series through an interdisciplinary perspective focused on spatialization. Indeed, beyond textual analysis and in the absence of primary sources on the production side (sources that more often than not prove inaccessible), the television series scholar is bound to explore the intermediate space between representation and reception – a complex space frequently navigated by users, as shown by the circular model of participatory culture (Jenkins, 2013).

A Agricultura de Precisão (AP) tem em sua concepção a emergência de novas combinações agrotecnológicas baseadas no desenvolvimento e aplicação das tecnologias da informação e comunicação na agricultura. As Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TIC’s) são definidas pela Agência dos Estados Unidos para Cooperação Internacional-USAID como sendo: a combinação de hardware, software e os instrumentos de produção que permitem troca, processamento e manejo da informação e do conhecimento. Então, de acordo com a USAID, as TIC’s incluem tecnologias e métodos para armazenar, manejar e processar informação (e.g. computadores, softwares, livros, dispositivos móveis, livrarias digitais e não digitais) e para comunicar a informação (e.g. correio, correio eletrônico, rádio, televisão, telefones, celulares, pagers, internet, etc). Devido à combinação de agrotecnologias com as tecnologias da informação e da comunicação, a Agricultura de Precisão é vista atualmente como uma das formas mais eficientes e eficazes de se garantir a produção de alimentos para atender as necessidades alimentares de nove bilhões de habitantes da terra em 2050, com a garantia da qualidade do produto e dos recursos naturais bióticos e abióticos. Este capítulo analisa o estado da arte e as tendências futuras das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação no contexto da Agricultura de Precisão. Serão abordados os seguintes temas: Padrões para Integração de Equipamentos Agrícolas, Sistemas de Informação e na Automação de Processos e Operações Agrícolas; Computação Ubíqua e em Nuvem; Aplicações Geoespaciais; Sistemas de Suporte a Decisão; Processos Produtivos Agrícolas - Protocolos e Normas de Produção

Integrated and sustainable urban solid waste management is one of the most important environmental problems in Europe and worldwide. According to modern legislations and newly promoted practices and trends in Europe as well as internationally, a complex way of urban solid waste management tends to prevail. This management method combines the Processing Unit and the Sanitary Landfill for the Residues of the process. A variety of parameters and restrictions apply when planning the siting of Residue Sanitary Landfills (RSL). The urban solid waste management problem and specifically the matter of RSL siting is constantly becoming more and more important in developed and developing countries due to pressures coming from population and urbanization growth, continuously increasing living needs and many other factors. Technology evolution and especially Geoinformatics tools, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS), constitute rather effective ways to approach and research issues like the problem of urban solid waste management and mainly the optimal delimitation of RSL.
The aim of this paper is to locate suitable – optimal areas that can be used for placing RSL in the island of Tinos, based on legislation, environmental, economic and social criteria. The methodology followed in this research effort is developed via Geographic Information Systems (GIS) by creating a spatial database which contains all the above-mentioned criteria. This research procedure includes an important number of different method trials. The result of this process indicate several places for placing RSL in Tinos Island.