Geospatial Data Integration

Characteristics

A.Y.	2010-2011
LECTURER	Craig Knoblock
LANGUAGE	English
SCHEDULE	TTH 10:00-12:30 6 Jul – 29 Jul, 2010

Course objectives and contents

This is a graduate-level course on geospatial data integration. The goal of the course is to teach students about the current scientific research on the problems of integrating diverse sources of data in a geospatial context. Such data includes satellite and aerial imagery, raster maps, vector data representing transportation networks, hydrograhic layers, political boundaries, etc., and other types of data that can be mapped into a geospatial context, such as text documents, news articles, web pages, etc. The course will cover both commercial tools and current research related geospatial data integration.

Prerequisites

The course can be taken in the first or in the second year in the master in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica) and of the Doctorate Program of International Graduate School in Information and Communication Technologies.

This course will be taught in English.

Program

This course will cover a variety of topics on geospatial data integration. Topics in the course will include geospatial mashups, geospatial mediators, geospatial source discovery, alignment of vector and imagery data, extraction and alignment of raster maps, linking text documents with imagery, and geospatial reasoning. In addition to the lectures, there will technical readings for each class, quizzes, and homework assignments.

Grades:

The grades for the class will be based on class participation, quiz grades, and the homework assignments. Attendance of the lectures of this course is required.

Lectures Schedule

Period: 6 July – 29 July, 2010

Every Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00-12:30.

Course Syllabus and Schedule

July 6

Topic: Introduction and Geospatial Mashups

Readings:

· Making Mashups with Marmite: Towards End-User Programming for the Web
Paper

· Intel Mashmaker
Paper

· Building Mashups by Example, Rattapoom Tuchinda, Pedro Szekely, and Craig A. Knoblock, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interface 2008
Paper

· Building geospatial mashups to visualize information for crisis management. Shubham Gupta and Craig A. Knoblock. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 2010.
Paper

July 8

Topic: Geospatial Background and Geospatial Source Discovery

Readings:

· Geospatial search service. Procházka, David and Motyčka, Arnošt,  Information Society. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2008. vol. A, pp. 227--230. ISSN 1581-9973.
Paper

· Identifying Maps on the World Wide Web.   Michelson, M.; Goel, A.; and Knoblock, C. A. In  Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on GIScience, LNCS 5266, 249--260, Springer, New York. DOI=10.1007/978-3-540-87473-7_16
Paper

· A Data Integration Approach to Dynamically Fusing Geospatial Sources.   Thakkar, S.  Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California.  Chapter 3, pages 42-80
Thesis

July 13

Topic: Open Source GIS and Remote Sensing and GIS based risk modeling

Readings

· Open Source GIS. Markus Neteler, In Warf, B. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Geography. London: SAGE Publications, 2010

· Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Markus Neteler, In Warf, B. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Geography. London: SAGE Publications, 2010

· Free and Open Source geospatial tools for environmental modeling and management. A. Jolma, D.P. Ames, N. Horning, M. Neteler, A. Racicot, and T. Sutton, 2006: In A. Voinov, editor, Proc. iEMSs 2006, 3rd Biennial meeting of the Intl. Env. Mod. and Softw. Soc. July 9-13, 2006, Burlington, Vermont, USA, W13: Open geospatial tools and methods in environmental modeling and management.
Paper

· Studying the global distribution of infectious diseases using GIS and RS. D. Rogers and S.E. Randolph, Nature Reviews Microbiology 1, 231-237, 2003
Paper

July 15

Topic: Geospatial Reasoning

Readings:

· A Constraint Satisfaction Approach to Geospatial Reasoning. Michalowski, M., and Knoblock, C. A.  2005. In  Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05).
Paper

· Exploiting Automatically Inferred Constraint Models for Building Identification in Satellite Imagery. Michalowski, M.; Knoblock, C. A.; Bayer, K. M.; and Choueiry, B. Y.  2007. In  Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACMGIS 07), 35-42. Paper

July 20

Topic: Linking Text Documents to Location

Readings:

· STEWARD: Architecture of a spatio-textual search engine.  M. D. Lieberman,  H. Samet,  J. Sankaranarayanan, and J. Sperling. In  Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS'07), pages 186-193, Seattle, WA, November 2007.
Paper

· Web-a-where: Geotagging Web Content. Amitay E., Har'El N., Sivan R., Soffer A. (2004).  ACM  SIGIR 2004. 
Paper

July 22

Topic: Geocoding

Readings:

· A comparison of address point, parcel and street geocoding techniques, Paul A. Zandbergen, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 32 (2008) 214–232
Paper

· A Flexible Addressing System for Approximate Geocoding, Davis et al.,
Paper

July 27

Topic: Registering and Aligning Geospatial Layers
Readings:

· Automatically conflating road vector data with orthoimagery,  
Ching-Chien Chen, Craig A. Knoblock, and Cyrus Shahabi.  
Geoinformatica, 10(4):495--530, December 2006.
Paper

· Automatically and Accurately Conflating Raster Maps with Orthoimagery.
Chen, C.; Knoblock, C. A.; and Shahabi, C.
2008.
Geoinformatica, 12(3):377--410.
Paper

July 29

Topic: Extracting Layers from Maps

Readings:

· Accurate and Automatic Extraction of Road Intersections From Raster Maps, Y.-Y. Chiang, C. A. Knoblock, C. Shahabi, and C.-C. Chen, Geoinformatica 13, 2 (2008), 121-157.
Paper

· Integrated text and line-art extraction from a topographic map. L. Li, G. Nagy, A. Samal, S. C. Seth, and Y. Xu. International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, 2(4):177-185, 2000.
Paper