Photogrammetric mapping has moved from its classical objective, which is the process of reconstructing objects from analog frame cameras to more contemporary objectives such as automatic generation of spatial and descriptive information from digital imagery. The advent of Very High Resolution (VHR) imaging satellites opens new challenges and potentialities to geo-spatial mapping community, espe...

Mental mapping of spaces, and of the possible paths for navigating these spaces, is essential for the development of efficient orientation and mobility skills. Visual ability is a crucial component to effective mental mapping. People who are blind consequently find it difficult to generate useful mental maps of spaces and navigate competently within them. The research studies reported in this p...

Auditory input plays an important role in the development of body-related processes. The absence of auditory input in deafness is understood to have a significant, and even irreversible, impact on these processes. The ability to map touch on the body is an important element of body-related processing. In this research, the crossed-arm temporal order judgment (TOJ) task was used to evaluate the ...

Crime opportunities are neither uniformly nor randomly organized in space and time. As a result, crime mappers can unlock these spatial patterns and strive for a better theoretical understanding of the role of geography and opportunity, as well as enabling practical crime prevention solutions that are tailored to specific places. The evolution of crime mapping has heralded a new era in spatial ...

This thesis addresses spatial representations and reasoning techniques for mobile robot mapping. It provides an analysis of fundamental representations and processes involved. A spatial representation based on shape information is proposed and appropriate shape analysis techniques are developed. Robot mapping’s core problem of determining correspondences between observation and map is tackled o...

The modelling or prediction of complex geospatial phenomena (like formation of geo-hazards) is one of the most important tasks for geoscientists. But in practice it faces various difficulties, caused mainly by the complexity of relationships between the phenomena itself and the controlling parameters, as well by limitations of our knowledge about the nature of physical/ mathematical relationshi...