1st Edition

Advanced Location-Based Technologies and Services

Edited By Hassan A. Karimi Copyright 2013
354 Pages 61 Color & 106 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

354 Pages 61 Color & 106 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Due to the rapid increase in the number of mobile device users worldwide, location-based services (LBSs) have become pervasive, and the demand for them will continue to grow. Exploring recent changes in the technology and its uses, Advanced Location-Based Technologies and Services takes an in-depth look at new and existing technologies, techniques, applications, and opportunities. Under the... Read more

Techniques and Technologies
Positioning and Tracking Approaches and Technologies, Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska and Allison Kealy
WiFi Location Fingerprinting, Prashant Krishnamurthy
Geocoding Techniques and Technologies for Location-Based Services, Daniel W. Goldberg
Multimodal Route Planning: Its Modeling and Computational Concerns, Lu Liu and Liqiu Meng

New Trends
Location-Based Social Networks, Prashant Krishnamurthy and Konstantinos Pelechrinis
Geo-Crowdsourcing, Jessica G. Benner and Hassan A. Karimi
Pedestrian Path Generation through GPS Traces, Piyawan Kasemsuppakorn and Hassan A. Karimi
A CyberGIS Environment for Analysis of Location-Based Social Media Data, Shaowen Wang, Guofeng Cao, Zhenhua Zhang, Yanli Zhao, Anand Padmanabhan, and Kaichao Wu

Services
Multisensor Map Matching for Pedestrian and Wheelchair Navigation, Ming Ren and Hassan A. Karimi
Security and Privacy in Location-Based Services, Mohd Anwar, Amirreza Masoumzadeh, and James Joshi
How Using Location-Based Services Affects Our Understanding of Our Environment, Kai-Florian Richter
The Open Geospatial Consortium and Location Service Standards, Carl Reed

Biography

Dr. Hassan Karimi is an associate professor and director of the Geoinformatics Laboratory in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include geoinformatics, mobile computing, location-based services, and navigation.