Short Papers
| Short Paper Session I Monday, June 21 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM |
| Session Chair: Dr. Cynthia Kuo, Nokia Research Center |
| ArchaeoloGIS: Using Geographic Information Systems to Support Archaeological Research |
| José Ferrandis Montesinos, Carlos Lamas López, and Francisco M. Rangel Pardo |
| Keywords: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Archaeology, Archaeological research |
| Open Solutions to Regional Observing System |
| Jeremy Cothran |
| Keywords: Databases, Postgresql, KML, Virtualization, Geospatial, Observing systems, Open-source, OGC, Web services |
| GeoBrowser Deployment in the USDA Forest Service: A Case Study |
| Charlie Schrader-Patton, Alan Ager, and Alan Ager |
| Keywords: USDA Forest Service, GeoBrowser, Environmental Threat Assessment Center, ArcGIS Server, Web map, GeoServer, WMS |
| A New Paradigm for Integrated Environmental Monitoring |
| Kevin Montgomery, Carsten Mundt |
| Keywords: Sensors, Environmental Monitoring, Data Integration, Modeling and simulation, Cloud Computing, Visualization. |
| Short Paper Session II Monday, June 21 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM |
| Session Chair: Dr. Ray Renner, Northrop Grumman |
| Conversion of Cadastral Data to KML File Type for Use in Google Earth and Google Maps for Mobile as a Land Information System |
| Stacey D. Lyle, and Nathan Eby |
| Keywords: Keyhole Markup Language (KML), Geographic Information System (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Surveying |
| Towards Designing Better Map Interfaces for the Mobile: Experiences From Example |
| Vidya Setlur, Cynthia Kuo, and Peter Mikelsons |
| Keywords: Maps, Mobile, Design, Interaction, Optimization |
| A Simple Framework to Generate Parallel Application for Geospatial Processing |
| Hélène Coullon, Sébastien Limet, and Emmanuel Melin |
| Keywords: Parallel computation, Cluster, GIS |
| GIRPharma: A Geographic Information Retrieval Approach to Locate Pharmacies On Duty |
| Francisco Manuel Rangel Pardo, MarÃa Dolores Rangel Pardo, Davide Buscaldi, and Paolo Rosso |
| Keywords: Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Toponym disambiguation |
| GIS in the Cloud: Implementing a Web Map Service on Google App Engine |
| J.D. Blower |
| Keywords: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Map Service (WMS), Raster, Cloud computing, Scalability |
| Up in the air: Adventures in Serving Geospatial Data Using Open Source Software and the Cloud |
| Ken Bunzel, Alan Ager, and Charlie Schrader-Patton |
| Keywords: GIS, Geospatial, Land management, Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment, GeoServer, MapServer, OpenLayers, GeoExt, Ext JS, WMS, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Virtual Server, EC2 |
| Modeling the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Outbreak in Beijing – An Agent-based Approach |
| Yuxia Huang |
| Keywords: SARS, Agent-based model, Spatial-temporal simulation |
| Internet Map Services: New Portal for Global Ecological Monitoring, or Geodata Junkyard? |
| Alan Ager, Charlie Schrader-Patton, Ken Bunzel, and Brett Colombe |
| Keywords: Forest Service, Geodata Webcrawler, ArcGIS Server, Web mapping service, WMS, WFS, OGC |
| Short Paper Session III Tuesday, June 22 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM |
| Session Chair: Prof. Ge Jin, Purdue University Calumet |
| P-DBSCAN: A Density Based Clustering Algorithm for Exploration and Analysis of Attractive Areas Using Collections of Geo-Tagged Photos |
| Slava Kisilevich, Florian Mansmann, and Daniel Keim |
| Keywords: Density based clustering, Geo-tagged photos, Attractive places |
| Discovering Spatio-Social Motifs of Electoral Support Using Discriminative Pattern Mining |
| Tomasz F. Stepinski and Josue Salazary , and Wei Ding |
| Keywords: Discriminative pattern mining, Political analysis, Summarization, Visualization |
| Sensing the Schoolyard: Using Senses and Sensors to Assess Georeferenced Environmental Dimensions |
| Maria João Silva, João Correia Lopes, Pedro Moreira Silva, Maria José Marcelino |
| Keywords: Multisensory georeferenced information; mobile learning |
| Geospatial Data and Server on USB |
| Stacey D. Lyle, Richard Smith, and Cynthia M. Lyle |
| Keywords: Keyhole Markup Language (KML), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Surveying |
| Disaster Assessment with Parallel Image Processing for GIS Based Local Area Disaster Decision Support System |
| Barbara Nicolai, Ge Jin, Keyuan Jiang, Charles Winer |
| Keywords: Disaster Management and Communication, GIS, Grid Computing, Visualization |