GeoComputation

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on GeoComputation
University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia.
30 November - 02 December 2009

Editors: Brian G. Lees and Shawn W. Laffan

Citing papers in these proceedings:

Papers from these proceedings should be cited using this format:

Carrigan, A., Puotinen, M. & Borah, R. (2009) Tropical Cyclone Induced Cooling Zones: A Geocomputational Hazard. In Lees, B.G. & Laffan, S.W. (eds), 10th International Conference on GeoComputation, UNSW, Sydney, November-December, 2009.

Papers were peer reviewed by two independent referees.

Conference sponsors:

PSMA Australia
Taylor and Francis
GISc Study Group; Institute of Australian Geographers
GISc Study Group, Association of American Geographers
IGU Commission on Geographic Information Science C 04.13
IGU Commission on Modelling Geographical Systems C 00.18

Keynote Presentation

Mark Gahegan Geocomputation: The application of impossibly sophisticated methods to fiendishly complex datasets by hopelessly optimistic researchers

Papers

J. Arundel & S. Winter Planning ahead in a harvesting variant of the travelling salesperson problem

Peter M. Atkinson, C. Jeganathan & J. Dash Analysing the effect of different geocomputational techniques on estimating phenology in India

David A. Bennett & Wenwu Tang GAIA-RM: A Geographically Aware Intelligent Agents Framework for Rangeland Management

S. Bertazzon, S. Olson, J. Norris & O. Elikan Localized spatial regression modelling of health data

Chris Brunsdon Finding Fault: Identifying and Testing 'Social Faultlines' in Surface Fitting Techniques

Rizwan Bulbul, Farid Karimipour and Andrew U. Frank A Simplex based Dimension Independent Approach for Convex Decomposition of Nonconvex polytopes

Graeme Byrne, Martin Charlton & Stewart Fotheringham Multiple dependent hypothesis tests in GWR

Adam Carrigan, Marji Puotinen & Rittick Borah Tropical Cyclone Induced Cooling Zones: A Geocomputational Hazard

Tao Cheng & Berk Anbaro?lu Methods on defining spatio-temporal neighbourhoods

Alexis J. Comber, Chris Brunsdon, Satoshi Sasaki & Hiroshi Suzuki Using census area in site location selection in planning: ambulance locations in Niigata, Japan

Conley, J. An Evaluation of the Extended Power of Cluster Detection Methods Under Sampling Strategies

S. Coveney Persistent Vegetation error in Aerial LiDAR DSMs: Impact on spatial models of inundation risk

M. Duckham, D. Nussbaum, J-R. Sack & N.Santoro Designing decentralized spatial algorithms for geosensor networks

E. Eberhardt, S. Mitchell & L. Fahrig Current and probable past wildlife fatality hotspots on the Thousand Islands Parkway, Ontario, Canada

Carson Farmer Data driven functional regions

A. Stewart Fotheringham, Mary Kelly, Martin Charlton & Magda Biesada Spatial Variations in Population Dynamics: A GIScience and GWR Perspective using a Case Study of Ireland 1841-1851

Lin-Jie Guan & Matt Duckham Decentralized computing of topological relationships between heterogeneous regions

Z. Huang, S. Nichol, J. Daniell, J. Siwabessy & B. Brooke Predictive Modelling of Seabed Sediment Parameters Using Multibeam Acoustic Data: A Case Study on the Carnarvon Shelf, Western Australia

Bin Jiang & Tao Jia Studying spatial effects on human mobility patterns using agent-based simulations

Aisan Kazerani & Stephan Winter Modified Betweenness Centrality for Predicting Traffic Flow

B.F.J. Kelly & B.M.S. Giambastiani Functional Programming Algorithms for Constructing 3D Geological Models

Yee Leung & Yu Zhou Analysis of Scaling Behavior in Spatial Systems with Large Oscillations of Temporal Fluctuation

Paul Lewis, Stewart Fotheringham & Adam Winstanley Role of Spatial Video in GIS

Jennifer A. Miller Spatial non-stationarity and the scale of species-environment relationships in the Mojave Desert, California, USA

A. B. Moore, Y. Hammam & P. A. Whigham A simple agricultural land use model implemented using Geographical Vector Agents (GVA)

F. Morgan & D. O'Sullivan Residential developers: Competition, behaviour and the resulting urban landscape

T. Nakaya, A. S. Fotheringham, M. Charlton & C. Brunsdon Semiparametric geographically weighted generalised linear modelling in GWR 4.0

A. Nara, K. Izumi, H. Iseki, T. Suzuki, K. Nambu & Y. Sakurai Trajectory Data Mining for Surgical Workflow Analysis

Yoshifumi Nishida, Yoichi Motomura, Koji Kitamura & Tatsuhiro Yamanaka Representation and Statistical Analysis of Childhood Injury by Bodygraphic Information System

O. Okwuashi J., McConchie, P. Nwilo & E. Eyo Stochastic GIS cellular automata for land use change simulation: application of a kernel based model

D. O'Sullivan & G.L.W. Perry Simulating long distance dispersal processes in spatially heterogeneous landscapes

Marji Puotinen Minimising Processing Time when Reconstructing Tropical Cyclone Wind Fields using GIS

D. Rosauer, S. Ferrier, G. Manion, S.W. Laffan & K. Williams Nice weather for frogs � using environmental data to model phylogenetic turnover

Sohail Shafii, Bernd Hamann, Rachel Hutchinson, Oliver Kreylos & Joshua Viers Tree Detection and Delineation of the Cosumnes River Preserve

Mingzheng Shi & Stephan Winter Building a multi-granularity sensor network using 2-dominating sets

Glen Stichbury & Lars Brabyn Predicting Water Availability in the Antarctic Dry Valleys Using GIS and Remote Sensing

A. Takizawa, W. Koo & N. Katoh Discovering Distinctive Spatial Patterns on Snatch in Kyoto City with CAEP

Wenwu Tang & David A. Bennett Parallel Agent-based Modelling of Land-Use Opinion Dynamics Using Graphics Processing Units

T. L. Timmins, A. J. S. Hunter & G. B. Stenhouse Modelling spatial dependence in grizzly bear health and environmental data in the Alberta Rocky Foothills

Ian Turton Experiences Teaching GIS with Open Source Software

Ian Turton Why Geolocating Written Routes is Harder than it Looks

Ning Wu & Elisabete. A. Silva Integration of genetic agents and cellular automata for dynamic urban growth modelling

Yichun Xie and Ting Ma Simulating self-organized spatial patterns induced by overgrazing

Posters

B. A. AbdelHamid, A. L. Griffin & P. Durr Developing a spatial-statistical model and map of the horse population in Australia

R. Borah, M. Puotinen & O. Price Line Intersect Sampling Tool (LIST): A GIS-based tool for Spread Analysis

Y. Choi, H. Yi & H. D. Park Raster modeling of surface runoff accumulation by incorporating artificially constructed water handling structures

Stesha A. Doku, Samsung Lim Using GIS to Examine the Health Status of Immigrant and Indigenous Groups in New South Wales, Australia

Wenxiu GAO & Jianya Gong Exploratory Construction of Generalisation Rules for Landuse Vector Data Generalisation

Y. Hanashima & K. Yamazaki The Iterative Method in Multi-criteria Decision Analysis: A Case Study of Fuzzy GIS

Ricky Jacob, Jianghua Zheng, Adam C. Winstanley, B?azej Ciep?uch & Peter Mooney A Multi-lingual pedestrian navigation and campus guidance system using CloudMade API

S. Kim, C. A. Arrowsmith & J. Handmer Coastal vulnerability assessment with an indicator based approach

B. Mitchell, D. Markovic, D. Rotheray, S. Measho & J. Barros Dutch elm disease on the Isle of Man - Identifying 'danger-spots' using an agent-based model

M. Salah & J. C. Trinder Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural Networks for Automatic Feature Extraction from Aerial Images and Lidar Data

Rajesh Bahadur Thapa & Yuji Murayama Land Use Change Factors in Kathmandu Valley: A GWR Approach

Yunhui Wu & Stephan Winter Inferring Relevant Gazetteer Instances to a Placename

Wenjie Wu, Zhengbin Dong, Wenzhong Zhang, Fengjun Jin and Xiujun Ma Spatio-Temporal Structural Analysis of Inter-Urban Aviation Network in China

Xin Zhang, K. Tocque, J. Boothby & P. Cook Exploration of Relationship between Social Status and Mortality Rates in England