Heterogeneous Spatial Data

Giuseppe Patane is a researcher at CNR-IMATI (2006-today) Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies-Italian National Research Council. Since 2001, his research activities have been focused on the definition of paradigms and algorithms for modeling and analyzing digital shapes and multidimensional data. He received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Applications from the University of Genova (2005) and a Post-Lauream Degree Master in Applications of Mathematics to Industry from the F. Severi National Institute for Advanced Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Applications-University of Milan (2000).Michela Spagnuolo is the Research Director at CNR-IMATI-GE, where she has been working since July 2001. Her research interests include geometric and semantic modeling of 3D objects, approaches based on computational topology for the analysis of shapes, and methods for the evaluation of similarity at the structural and semantic level. She authored more than 130 reviewed papers in scientific journals and international conferences, and is an associate editor of international journals in computer graphics (currently, The Visual Computer and Computers & Graphics). She actively works as chair of conferences and workshops, and she is a member of the steering committee of Shape Modeling International and of the EG Workshops on 3D Object Retrieval. In 2014, she was nominated as Fellow of the Eurographics Association.

• List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Spatio-temporal Data Fusion.- Spatial and Environmental Data Approximation.- Feature Extraction.- Applications to Surface Approximation and Rainfall Analysis.- Conclusions.- Bibliography.- Authors' Biographies.