The Open Data movement has been gaining momentum in recent years, with increasingly many public i... more The Open Data movement has been gaining momentum in recent years, with increasingly many public institutions making their data freely accessible. Despite much data being already open (and more to come), finding information about the actual usage of these open datasets is still a challenge. This chapter introduces two tools of the Open City Toolkit (OCT) that tackle this issue: a tool to increase transparency and interactive guidelines. Interviews with city council employees confirmed the utility of the transparency tool. Both tools can be used by city councils (for planning purposes) and by users interested to know more about the value of current open datasets (for information purposes).
The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the European Union through the GEO-C project (H20... more The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the European Union through the GEO-C project (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014, Grant Agreement Number 642332, http://www.geoc. eu/). Carlos Granell has been funded by the Ramon y Cajal Programme (grant number RYC- 2014-16913). Sergio Trilles has been funded by the postdoctoral programme Vali+d (GVA) (grant number APOSTD/2016/058).
This dataset lists categories of open datasets from 40 European open data catalogs. The 40 Europe... more This dataset lists categories of open datasets from 40 European open data catalogs. The 40 European data catalogues were taken from four countries (France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom) at a rate of 10 per country. These categories are an indicator of the topics of interests in the respective countries (back in 2016), the types of questions data publishers assume users will ask, and ultimately the types of questions citizens can ask.
ABSTRACT: The degree of hazard due to landslide in any region is difficult to assess manually. An... more ABSTRACT: The degree of hazard due to landslide in any region is difficult to assess manually. An automated system having capability to correlate causes contributing automated landslide hazard is expected to be an efficient alternative. The objective of this paper is to explain LHAZ (Landslide Hazard Automated Zonation) system, an automated system that has been developed to determine the intensity and extent of landslide hazard in a given region. The system is based on the automated understanding of thematic maps of landslide contributing factors such as soil, lithology, topography, geology etc. The system makes use of the knowledge base available in IS code 14496: 1998. Finally, using an inference scheme, it categorizes the region as different zones of landslide hazard and provides an output map depicting low, medium and high hazard zones. 1.
Bhattacharya, D. & Painho, M. (2018). Design for Geospatially Enabled Climate Modeling and Alert ... more Bhattacharya, D. & Painho, M. (2018). Design for Geospatially Enabled Climate Modeling and Alert System. In Stephan Winter, Amy Griffin & Monika Sester (Eds.), 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018), 22, pp. 22:1–22:6. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Vol. 114. Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik. ISBN: 978-3-95977-083-5; ISSN: 1868-8969. DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.22. URL: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9350/
Spatio-temporal aspects of data lead to critical information. Sensors capture data at all scales ... more Spatio-temporal aspects of data lead to critical information. Sensors capture data at all scales continually so it is imperative that useful information be extracted ubiquitously and regularly. Location plays a vital part by helping understand relations between datasets. It is crucial to link developmental works with spatial attributes and current challenge is to create an open platform that manages real-time sensor data and provides critical spatial analytics atop expert domain knowledge provided in the system. That is a two-faced problem where the solution tackles not only data from multiple sources but also runs data management platform, a spatial data infrastructure(SDI) as backbone framework able to harness sensor web(SW).
The objective is development of an automated natural hazard zonation system with InternetSMS warn... more The objective is development of an automated natural hazard zonation system with InternetSMS warning utilizing geomatics for sustainable societies. At present no web-enabled warning system exists which can disseminate warning after hazard evaluation at one go and in real time. The functionality is to be modular in architecture having GIS-GUI, input, understanding, rainfall prediction, expert, output, and warning modules. Through this paper a significantly enhanced system integrated with Web-enabledgeospatial information has been proposed, and it can be concluded that an automated hazard warning system has been conceptualized and researched. However, now the scope is to develop it further. The research is aimed to create a dynamic and real-time spatial data infrastructure (SDI) solution by the way of continual sharable activity imparted by internet and ArcGIS/ArcIMS). At its core, the system is based on components GeoServer, GeoNetwork, Django, and GeoExt, that provide a platform for...
espanolEn la literatura se distinguen dos enfoques diferentes para la trans-formacion de las actu... more espanolEn la literatura se distinguen dos enfoques diferentes para la trans-formacion de las actuales ciudades en ciudades inteligentes: (a)ofrecer sistemasmas eficientes y autonomos a traves del uso de latecnologia, sensores, etc.; o (b) educar a los ciudadanos para quepuedan hacer frente a los avances tecnologicos en sus ciudades.En este contexto, el proyectoGEO-C (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014) tienecomo objetivo ofrecer estos dos enfoques. Para ello se ofrece unaplataforma de software abierto, llamada Open City Toolkit. Dichaplataforma es considerada como la aglutinacion de herramien-tas para capacitar tanto a ciudadanos y desarrolladores como aadministraciones publicas, en la participacion ciudadana y lograrciudades mas abiertas e inteligentes. Entre estas herramientas seencuentran: aplicaciones, conjuntos de datos, servicios y guias.La Open City Toolkit tiene como mision integrar los avances deinvestigacion provenientes de diferentes tematicas alrededor de las ciudades inteligentes. Dic...
Hazard warning is necessary for effective mitigation due to disaster. People moving into a hazard... more Hazard warning is necessary for effective mitigation due to disaster. People moving into a hazard prone area need to be made aware of the level of threat. In this study, a system to warn against hazard is being proposed. It aims to be independent, fast and pervasive. It is designed to be a generalized system that could be deployed across any region. The system is modular in structure consisting of four functional units and gets activated once it is fed with threat level with geo-location. The existing cellular network is being utilized for disseminating hazard information as short messages. Currently the system is built for warning hazard due to landslides and classification accuracy was previously tested in this domain. Now the message permeability is shown to be virtually instantaneous with a maximum time lag recorded as 50 seconds, minimum of 10 seconds. On an average, the perceived threat message whether high, moderate or low threat, reaches a mobile user within 30 seconds. Such...
Optimization of freight logistics is crucial for economic development. Technology intrusion in lo... more Optimization of freight logistics is crucial for economic development. Technology intrusion in logistics sector leads it to a new height. However, the major problem persists with freight trucks, either business-to-business (B2B) or owner-driver, is running back empty after they deliver their primary freight to destination. For enhancing earning, freight driver or managing company can leverage the use of an information system for finding out the customer in the return trip as well. Hence, in this paper, we first examine different aspects related to state of art and practice, for return trip truck appointment system. Further, we provided a modular framework for the system. The model of the system is so adapted that freight truck and customer, both behave as a resource to each other, equally likely so that ethics of trip-deal remain protected. The notification is generated according to involve intricacies like internet data connection fluctuation and driver illiteracy.
The Open Data movement has been gaining momentum in recent years, with increasingly many public i... more The Open Data movement has been gaining momentum in recent years, with increasingly many public institutions making their data freely accessible. Despite much data being already open (and more to come), finding information about the actual usage of these open datasets is still a challenge. This chapter introduces two tools of the Open City Toolkit (OCT) that tackle this issue: a tool to increase transparency and interactive guidelines. Interviews with city council employees confirmed the utility of the transparency tool. Both tools can be used by city councils (for planning purposes) and by users interested to know more about the value of current open datasets (for information purposes).
The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the European Union through the GEO-C project (H20... more The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the European Union through the GEO-C project (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014, Grant Agreement Number 642332, http://www.geoc. eu/). Carlos Granell has been funded by the Ramon y Cajal Programme (grant number RYC- 2014-16913). Sergio Trilles has been funded by the postdoctoral programme Vali+d (GVA) (grant number APOSTD/2016/058).
This dataset lists categories of open datasets from 40 European open data catalogs. The 40 Europe... more This dataset lists categories of open datasets from 40 European open data catalogs. The 40 European data catalogues were taken from four countries (France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom) at a rate of 10 per country. These categories are an indicator of the topics of interests in the respective countries (back in 2016), the types of questions data publishers assume users will ask, and ultimately the types of questions citizens can ask.
ABSTRACT: The degree of hazard due to landslide in any region is difficult to assess manually. An... more ABSTRACT: The degree of hazard due to landslide in any region is difficult to assess manually. An automated system having capability to correlate causes contributing automated landslide hazard is expected to be an efficient alternative. The objective of this paper is to explain LHAZ (Landslide Hazard Automated Zonation) system, an automated system that has been developed to determine the intensity and extent of landslide hazard in a given region. The system is based on the automated understanding of thematic maps of landslide contributing factors such as soil, lithology, topography, geology etc. The system makes use of the knowledge base available in IS code 14496: 1998. Finally, using an inference scheme, it categorizes the region as different zones of landslide hazard and provides an output map depicting low, medium and high hazard zones. 1.
Bhattacharya, D. & Painho, M. (2018). Design for Geospatially Enabled Climate Modeling and Alert ... more Bhattacharya, D. & Painho, M. (2018). Design for Geospatially Enabled Climate Modeling and Alert System. In Stephan Winter, Amy Griffin & Monika Sester (Eds.), 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018), 22, pp. 22:1–22:6. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Vol. 114. Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik. ISBN: 978-3-95977-083-5; ISSN: 1868-8969. DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.22. URL: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9350/
Spatio-temporal aspects of data lead to critical information. Sensors capture data at all scales ... more Spatio-temporal aspects of data lead to critical information. Sensors capture data at all scales continually so it is imperative that useful information be extracted ubiquitously and regularly. Location plays a vital part by helping understand relations between datasets. It is crucial to link developmental works with spatial attributes and current challenge is to create an open platform that manages real-time sensor data and provides critical spatial analytics atop expert domain knowledge provided in the system. That is a two-faced problem where the solution tackles not only data from multiple sources but also runs data management platform, a spatial data infrastructure(SDI) as backbone framework able to harness sensor web(SW).
The objective is development of an automated natural hazard zonation system with InternetSMS warn... more The objective is development of an automated natural hazard zonation system with InternetSMS warning utilizing geomatics for sustainable societies. At present no web-enabled warning system exists which can disseminate warning after hazard evaluation at one go and in real time. The functionality is to be modular in architecture having GIS-GUI, input, understanding, rainfall prediction, expert, output, and warning modules. Through this paper a significantly enhanced system integrated with Web-enabledgeospatial information has been proposed, and it can be concluded that an automated hazard warning system has been conceptualized and researched. However, now the scope is to develop it further. The research is aimed to create a dynamic and real-time spatial data infrastructure (SDI) solution by the way of continual sharable activity imparted by internet and ArcGIS/ArcIMS). At its core, the system is based on components GeoServer, GeoNetwork, Django, and GeoExt, that provide a platform for...
espanolEn la literatura se distinguen dos enfoques diferentes para la trans-formacion de las actu... more espanolEn la literatura se distinguen dos enfoques diferentes para la trans-formacion de las actuales ciudades en ciudades inteligentes: (a)ofrecer sistemasmas eficientes y autonomos a traves del uso de latecnologia, sensores, etc.; o (b) educar a los ciudadanos para quepuedan hacer frente a los avances tecnologicos en sus ciudades.En este contexto, el proyectoGEO-C (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014) tienecomo objetivo ofrecer estos dos enfoques. Para ello se ofrece unaplataforma de software abierto, llamada Open City Toolkit. Dichaplataforma es considerada como la aglutinacion de herramien-tas para capacitar tanto a ciudadanos y desarrolladores como aadministraciones publicas, en la participacion ciudadana y lograrciudades mas abiertas e inteligentes. Entre estas herramientas seencuentran: aplicaciones, conjuntos de datos, servicios y guias.La Open City Toolkit tiene como mision integrar los avances deinvestigacion provenientes de diferentes tematicas alrededor de las ciudades inteligentes. Dic...
Hazard warning is necessary for effective mitigation due to disaster. People moving into a hazard... more Hazard warning is necessary for effective mitigation due to disaster. People moving into a hazard prone area need to be made aware of the level of threat. In this study, a system to warn against hazard is being proposed. It aims to be independent, fast and pervasive. It is designed to be a generalized system that could be deployed across any region. The system is modular in structure consisting of four functional units and gets activated once it is fed with threat level with geo-location. The existing cellular network is being utilized for disseminating hazard information as short messages. Currently the system is built for warning hazard due to landslides and classification accuracy was previously tested in this domain. Now the message permeability is shown to be virtually instantaneous with a maximum time lag recorded as 50 seconds, minimum of 10 seconds. On an average, the perceived threat message whether high, moderate or low threat, reaches a mobile user within 30 seconds. Such...
Optimization of freight logistics is crucial for economic development. Technology intrusion in lo... more Optimization of freight logistics is crucial for economic development. Technology intrusion in logistics sector leads it to a new height. However, the major problem persists with freight trucks, either business-to-business (B2B) or owner-driver, is running back empty after they deliver their primary freight to destination. For enhancing earning, freight driver or managing company can leverage the use of an information system for finding out the customer in the return trip as well. Hence, in this paper, we first examine different aspects related to state of art and practice, for return trip truck appointment system. Further, we provided a modular framework for the system. The model of the system is so adapted that freight truck and customer, both behave as a resource to each other, equally likely so that ethics of trip-deal remain protected. The notification is generated according to involve intricacies like internet data connection fluctuation and driver illiteracy.
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