Browsing by Subject "Geographical Information Management and Applications"
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3D topological structure management within a DBMS, validating a topological volume
(2010)The goal of this research is to develop a 3D topological structure with validation functionality and a conversion function. In order to reach this goal, the main requirements for a 3D topological structure are set, as well ... -
Accessibility of touristic venues in Amsterdam: A methodology to collect, assess and validate the attractiveness and accessibility of touristic venues from data extracted using Twitter as Urban Sensor: A.M.S. case
(2015)Amsterdam attracts every year a growing number of tourists which can generate congestion and overcrowding in the city centre. To tackle this problem, a state-of-art method that enables new ways of collecting large amount ... -
Behavioral cycling profiles and their potential as estimators for cycling motives
(2018)Cycling behavioral research is increasingly conducted by means of GPS data. The presence of these data-sets allow for large-scale investigation of complicated travel behavioral aspects such as cycling motives and enables ... -
Bridging the gap between user generated spatial content and the semantic web.
(2011)This work concerns the development opportunities for Geographical Information coming from new technologies and ongoing web applications. Geographical content created online by users is growing in amount and heterogeneity. ... -
Creation of an Indoor Route Planner for Aiports
(2018)The main target of the current work is to create an indoor route planner specifically designed for the indoor environment of airports which calculates for the departing passenger a path with intermediate destinations, from ... -
Crowdsourcing toponymic data in the Netherlands: Defining methods, rules and regulations for the registration of objects and names in national mapping
(2018)For more than 200 years, geographical names have been a prominent and indispensable part of national mapping in the Netherlands. Yet, shortly after the Topographic Survey became part of Kadaster and the topographic databases ... -
Determining yield-limiting factors using optical satellite data
(2019)The constantly growing population and food demand require us to use agricultural land as efficiently as possible. The high costs of fertilisers and plant protection products together with their impact on the environment ... -
Exploring Place and Identity Through Soundscape Mapping
(2017)With the age of globalisation and information, interactions between people, places and cultures have significantly intensified, generating new forms of sense experiences and complicating our bodily encounters and identities. ... -
GIS based property valuation: Objectifying the value of view
(2017)Automated valuation models evolved substantially since the ‘80s and are now the main practice for property valuation in The Netherlands, where they are used both for taxation purposes and the property trade market. Important ... -
Heating Amsterdam: network solutions
(2018)This master thesis is about district heating in Amsterdam. In the context of climate change, the research looks at alternative ways to heat up buildings. One of the alternatives is a heat distribution network. A very ... -
Keeping the BGT up-to-date: Volunteered geographic information, a serious option?
(2015)Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is often suggested by academics for governments to keep their geo-information better up-to-date. But in contrast to corporate and open VGI platforms, mature governmental VGI platforms ... -
Mapping Maritime Risk in the Kattegat Using the Automatic Identification System
(2021)The Kattegat strait between Denmark and Sweden features high vessel traffic densities and difficult navigational conditions, making it susceptible to ship collisions. This led to the implementation of a new shipping route ... -
Road Hazard Point Acquisition The Smartphone Way
(2012)The goal of this thesis is to research the usability of smartphones for the acquisition of road hazard points as well as research the quality of the reported hazards and see if that matches the requirements. For the purpose ... -
Route Choice Preference of Cyclists: an agent-based simulation model for the city of Utrecht
(2017)This research serves an informative guide and a repeatable approach regarding creating an agent-based modeling of cyclists route-choice preferences. It provides innovative features for the agent-based modeling of cyclists ...