Publications related to Cartography

Vers un projet territorial du vivant L'outil des réseaux écologiques comme projet urbanistique de revitalisation du paysage agricole

The aim of my thesis is to provide urban architects and planners with working theoretical elements territorial project of the living. The living and the socio-ecological transition are key concepts in the nature and people paradigm, which asserts a human-n ...

EPFL2024

Between digital and territorial turns: A forking path

Elena Cogato Lanza, Chiara Cavalieri

This chapter looks at the intertwined evolution of two different ideas throughout the past century: that of ‘territory’, that has been reshaped and redefined in the field of architecture and urbanism, and that of ‘digital’, that while becoming dominant, ha ...

Routledge2022

Clustering and Informative Path Planning for 3D Gas Distribution Mapping: Algorithms and Performance Evaluation

Alcherio Martinoli, Chiara Ercolani, Lixuan Tang, Ankita Arun Humne

Chemical gas dispersion can represent a severe threat to human and animal lives, as well as to the environment. Constructing a map of the distribution of gas in a fast and reliable manner is critical to ensure accurate monitoring of at-risk facilities and ...

2022

Generic Semantic Segmentation of Historical Maps

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre

Research in automatic map processing is largely focused on homogeneous corpora or even individual maps, leading to inflexible models. Based on two new corpora, the first one centered on maps of Paris and the second one gathering maps of cities from all ove ...

2021

Omnidirectional Strategies for Exploring Ancient Cities and Territories

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine

By focusing on technologies of virtual reality in conjunction with theories of “place” and “presence,” this chapter outlines the importance of new approaches to the museological experience and exploration of ancient cities and cultural heritage sites. Expl ...

Oxford University Press2020

Point cloud quality evaluation: Towards a definition for test conditions

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

Recently stakeholders in the area of multimedia representation and transmission have been looking at plenoptic technologies to improve immersive experience. Among these technologies, point clouds denote a volumetric information representation format with i ...

2019

The effects of visual realism, spatial abilities, and competition on performance in map-based route learning in men

John Christian Thoresen, Rebecca Francelet

We report on how visual realism might influence map-based route learning performance in a controlled laboratory experiment with 104 male participants in a competitive context. Using animations of a dot moving through routes of interest, we find that partic ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2018

Detecting overlapping spatial clusters of high sugar-sweetened beverage intake and high body mass index in a general population: a cross-sectional study

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, David Nicolas De Ridder, Beatrice Bacchilega

Background: Evidence suggests that sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake frequency is positively associated with the risk of obesity and diabetes. We aimed to identify populations and areas in high need for interventions to reduce SSB consumption using a f ...

2018

Penser (par) la carte : l'espace public et la marche à Mumbai et à Tokyo

Carole Thérèse Lanoix

What do Marine Drive and Shibuya have in common? Both the long promenade at the southern end of Mumbai, and the gigantic pedestrian crossing in the heart of the Japanese capital, are places where one walks. This thesis discusses places of convergence and o ...

EPFL2017

Spatial dependence of genetic data related to human health and livestock disease resistance: a role for geography to support the One Health approach

Stéphane Joost

The spatial dependence of located health and/or genetic data can be used to detect clusters likely to reveal disease prevalence or signatures of adaptation associated with characteristics of the local environment (high temperatures, air or water pollution) ...

2017

The future of human cerebral cartography: a novel approach

Henry Markram, Richard Frackowiak

Cerebral cartography can be understood in a limited, static, neuroanatomical sense. Temporal information from electrical recordings contributes information on regional interactions adding a functional dimension. Selective tagging and imaging of molecules a ...

Royal Soc2015

Multi-scale landscape genomic models : the role of very high resolution digital elevation models in evolutionary biology

Kevin Leempoel

Environmental heterogeneity is one of the main actors of biodiversity and species adaptation as it exerts a selective pressure on observable characteristics of living organisms. Consequently, local adaptation favours certain genetic variants and, by doing ...

EPFL2015

Specification and Implementation of a Meta-model for Information Systems Cartography

Alain Wegmann, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

Models are used in software engineering, enterprise architecture, requirements engineering, etc. In this context, models can give support in creating a shared understanding of what exists in an enterprise. For this purpose we suggest to use a cartography t ...

2014

A comparison of body mass index spatial dependence among adults and children in a Swiss general population

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous

Background: Body mass index (BMI) may cluster in space among adults and be spatially dependent. Whether BMI clusters among children and how adults and children BMI clusters are related remains unknown. We aimed to identify and to compare BMI spatial depend ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

A Cartographic Turn? Bridging the Gap between Sciences and Technologies of the Inhabited Space

Jacques Lévy

Modern cartography, grounded in the Euclidean concept of space and the mathematization of its language, has laid the foundation of academic geography and promoted its epistemic emergence as a scientific discipline. Developments over the last decades and th ...

Association Espaces Temps2012

Multiscale analysis of high resolution digital elevation models using the wavelet transform

Michaël Kalbermatten

At the end of the nineties the emergence of high resolution (1 m) digital elevation models (DEMs) settled the context of high precision geomorphological analysis. These new elevation models permitted to reveal structures that remained heretofore undetectab ...

EPFL2010

High spatial resolution distributed sensing in optical fibers by Brillouin gain-profile tracing

Luc Thévenaz

A novel BOTDA technique for distributed sensing of the Brillouin frequency in optical fibers with cm-order spatial resolution is proposed. The technique is based upon a simple modulation scheme, requiring only a single long pump pulse for acoustic excitati ...

Optical Society of America2010

Analyse et exploitation des données de LIDAR aéroportés pour la caractérisation des milieux boisés de la Suisse

Gilles Gachet

Forest ecosystems show diverse and evolving structures. Accurate descriptions and a good knowledge of these environments are therefore a real challenge. Existing forest cover investigation methods are mostly laborious, hard to replicate and usually based o ...

EPFL2009

La donnée géographique aux frontières des organisations : approche socio-cognitive et systémique de son appropriation

Matthieu Noucher

Geographic Information Technologies are now widespread. Geomatics tools are no longer restricted to a small number of technicians but impact on all of the actors within the land management sector (planners, geologists, foresters…). Many partnerships have e ...

EPFL2009

The geographical dimension of genetic diversity : a GIScience contribution for the conservation of animal genetic resources

Stéphane Joost

In its natural framework, genetic information is embedded within a geographic context. Plants and animals are directly influenced by the specific characteristics of their surrounding environment. Therefore, spatial information is a potentially important el ...

EPFL2006