Integrated Spatial Databases: Digital Images and GIS: International Workshop ISD'99 Portland, ME, USA, June 14-16, 1999 Selected Papers(1737 Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

would like to express our appreciation to the authors and participants of ISD'99, who made the meeting a memorable one, and these proceedings a valuable contribution to the relevant literature. October 1999 Peggy Agouris and Anthony Stefanidis $FNQRZOHGJPHQWV This workshop was partially supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS), through CAREER grant number 9702233, and by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). VII Preface :RUNVKRS 2UJDQL]DWLRQ :RUNVKRS &KDLU Peggy Agouris, University of Maine 3URJUDP &RPPLWWHH &KDLU Anthony Stefanidis, University of Maine 3URJUDP &RPPLWWHH Kate Beard, University of Maine Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh Max Egenhofer, University of Maine Wolfgang Foerstner, University of Bonn, Germany Andrew Frank, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Dieter Fritsch, University of Stuttgart, Germany Mike Goodchild, University of California - Santa Barbara Armin Gruen, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Thanasis Hadzilacos, Computer Technology Institute, Greece Marinos Kavouras, National Technical University of Athens, Greece David Mark, State University of New York at Buffalo Dave McKeown, Carnegie Mellon University Martien Molenaar, ITC, The Netherlands Dimitris Papadias, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China Hanan Samet, University of Maryland - College Park Tapani Sarjakoski, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota Nektaria Tryfona, Aalborg University, Denmark Vassilis Tsotras, University of California - Riverside Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University, The Netherlands /RFDO $UUDQJHPHQWV Blane Shaw, University of Maine 2UJDQL]LQJ &RPPLWWHH

Table of Contents:
Object Extraction from Raster Imagery.- View Alignment of Aerial and Terrestrial Imagery in Urban Environments.- Automated Extraction of Linear Features from Aerial Imagery Using Kohonen Learning and GIS Data.- Reconstruction of Building Models from Maps and Laser Altimeter Data.- Comparison of the Potential of Different Sensors for an Automatic Approach for Change Detection in GIS Databases.- Geospatial Analysis.- Cost-Effective Determination of Biomass from Aerial Images.- Spatial Pictogram Enhanced Conceptual Data Models and Their Translation to Logical Data Models.- Change Detection by Classification of a Multi-temporal Image.- A Probabilistic Approach to Environmental Change Detection with Area-Class Map Data.- Formalisms and Modeling.- Landscape Editing with Knowledge-Based Measure Deductions for Ecological Planning.- A Framework for Integrating GIS and Digital Images.- On Ontology in Image Analysis.- Relational Algebra for Spatial Data Management.- Data Access.- Integrating GISand Imagery through XML-Based Information Mediation.- The ATree: A Data Structure to Support Very Large Scientific Databases.- Improving High-Dimensional Indexing with Heuristics for Content-Based Image Retrieval.- Representation and Interactive Manipulation of Massive CAD Databases.- Conquest: CONcurrent QUEries over Space and Time.- CHOROCHRONOS - Research on Spatio-temporal Database Systems.