Research@Locate 2014
Accepted Papers
1. Benjamin Adams (U Auckland, NZ) and Martin Raubal (ETH Zurich, CH). Identifying Salient
Topics for Personalized Place Similarity
2. Phillip Delaney (U Melbourne, AU) and Chris Pettit (U Melbourne, AU). Urban Data Hubs
supporting Smart Cities
3. Jack Barton (U Melbourne, AU) and Chris Pettit (U Melbourne, AU). Developing a Usability
Framework to Support Online Rapid Urban Information Discovery and Interrogation
4. Sophie Richards (Curtin U, AU) and Bert Veenendaal (Curtin U, AU). Bridging the Gap
between the United Nations World Food Programme Crisis Mapping Operations and
Crowdsourcing Technology
5. Nic Donnelly (LINZ, NZ), Chris Crook (LINZ, NZ), Joel Haasdyk (LPI NSW, AU), Craig Harrison
(Geoscience Australia, AU), Chris Rizos (UNSW, AU), Craig Roberts (UNSW, AU) and Richard
Stanaway (UNSW, AU). Dynamic Datum Transformations in Australia and New Zealand
6. Don Grant (LINZ, NZ), Chris Crook (LINZ, NZ) and Nic Donnelly (LINZ, NZ). Managing the
dynamics of the New Zealand spatial cadastre
7. Joel Haasdyk (LPI NSW, AU), Nic Donnelly (LINZ, NZ), Richard Stanaway (UNSW, AU), Craig
Harrison (Geoscience Australia, AU), Craig Roberts (UNSW, AU) and Chris Rizos (UNSW, AU).
Options for Modernising the Geocentric Datum of Australia
8. Seyedhossein Pourali (RMIT U, AU), Colin Arrowsmith (RMIT U, AU), Nicholas Chrisman
(RMIT U, AU) and Aliakbar Matkan (Shahid Beheshti U, Iran). Vertical accuracy assessment of
LiDAR ground points using minimum distance approach
9. Volker Janssen (LPI NSW, AU) and Tony Watson (LPI NSW, AU). EDMCAL: Processing EDM
Calibrations in NSW
10. Pascal Sirguey (U Otago, NZ), Nicolas J. Cullen (U Otago, NZ) and Jorge Filipe Dos Santos
(Vale Technological Institute, Brazil). The new Digital Orthometric Elevation Model of
Kilimanjaro
11. Benjamin Adams (U Auckland, NZ) and Mark Gahegan (U Auckland, NZ). Emerging data
challenges for next-generation spatial data infrastructure
12. Michael Borck (Curtin U, AU), Geoff West (Curtin U, AU) and Tele Tan (Curtin U, AU). An
image engineering approach to analysing mobile mapping data
13. Jason Jingshi Li (ANU, AU), Arnaud Jutzeler (EPFL, CH) and Boi Faltings (EPFL, CH). Estimating
Urban Ultrafine Particle Distributions with Gaussian Process Models
14. Li Liu (UNSW, AU) and Samsung Lim (UNSW, AU). A Novel Algorithm for Road Extraction
from Airborne Lidar Data
15. Nicholas Chrisman (RMIT U, AU). Integrated land evaluation: Story of a track not taken
16. Antoni Moore (U Otago, NZ) and William Cartwright (RMIT U, AU). The Geography of World
War I Cartoons: Gallipoli
Presentations
 Saman Koswatte (USQ, AU), Kevin McDougall (USQ, AU) and Xiaoye Liu (USQ, AU). Ontology
driven VGI filtering to empower next generation SDIs for disaster management (presentation
only)
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Nic Donnelly (LINZ, NZ), Chris Crook (LINZ, NZ), Matt Amos (LINZ, NZ), Don Grant (LINZ, NZ),
John Ritchie (LINZ, NZ) and Craig Roberts (UNSW, AU). Accuracy of the Canterbury
Earthquake Deformation Models (presentation only)
Kambiz Borna (U Otago, NZ), Antoni Moore (U Otago, NZ) and Pascal Sirguey (U Otago, NZ).
A Vector Agent Approach to Extract the Boundaries of Real-World Phenomena from Satellite
Images (presentation only)
Liu Xiliang (REIS / Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Lu Feng (REIS / Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China) and Zhang Hengcai (REIS / Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).
Intersection Delay Estimation from Floating Car Data via Stacked Generalization: A Case
Study on Beijing’s Road Networks (presentation only)