Hierarchy of Urban Diversity: The relationship between the public transport network and the urban diversity of Amsterdam

The paper examines the relationship between the public transport network and urban diversity in Amsterdam using urban mapping and data analysis. The paper presents a hierarchical analysis of the urban diversity outcome, which is based on the computation of the average diversity scores for each geographical area. The Simpson index is used to...

Ontology-based data mapping to support planning in historical urban centres

Because of the need for new sustainable future alternatives, the re-inhabitation of rural areas, hinterlands, small historical urban centres and villages has become a unique real opportunity. Therefore, it is necessary to define and adopt new sustainable urban planning and building permits to follow this path. These processes involve both...

World heritage mapping in a standard-based structured geographical information system

This research aims at the study of the (dynamic) relationship between the World Heritage sites and the related human settlements development. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) can be useful to represent the involved information and to analyze such relationship. However, an effective harmonized structure and unique storage of possibly...

Towards building a semantic formalization of (small) historical centres

Historical small urban centres are of increasing interest to different interacting fields such as architectural heritage protection and conservation, urban planning, disaster response, sustainable development and tourism. They are defined at different levels (international, national, regional), by various organizations and standards,...

The fusion of SAR tomography and Stereo-SAR for 3D absolute scatterer positioning

For decades, spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry has evolved into a widely used geodetic method for three-dimensional mapping and analysing the geophysical processes of the surface of the earth. Nevertheless, effects such as atmospheric disturbances, temporal and geometric decorrelation are considered as the main degrading...