A user-centric framework to improve the reusability of open geodata in cities 

    Benítez Páez, Manuel Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-11-22)

    This book presents a user-centric framework that local open data authorities can use it to improve the ongoing initiatives towards a bottom-up approach. In an open data atmosphere where the accessibility of data portals ...

    Aproximación al tratamiento completo del ciclo de vida sobre datos provenientes de sensores mediante estándares GIS 

    Trilles Oliver, Sergio (Date of defense: 2015-07-14)

    En esta tesis se utiliza como hilo conductor el ciclo de vida de cualquier contenido geoespacial, que coincide con el ciclo de los datos proporcionados por sensores. Para ello, se presentan cuatro etapas que son: adquisición, ...

    Climate change and impacts in the urban systems 

    Smid, Marek (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)

    Urban systems are not only major drivers of climate change, but also impact hotspots. The processes of global warming and urban population growth make our urban agglomerations vulnerable to chain reactions triggered by ...

    Descripción, Publicación y Descubrimiento de Recursos Georreferenciados 

    Beltrán Fonollosa, Arturo (Date of defense: 2013-07-23)

    El interés de los usuarios en la información con contexto geográfico hace que esta juegue un papel fundamental en la sociedad haciendo que la cantidad y variedad de recursos georreferenciados disponibles en la web aumente ...

    Geographies of Empathy: Affective reconfigurations of Cities, Objects & Places 

    Portela, Manuel (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)

    This work addresses the development of digital technologies from the perspective of corporeal and embodied encounters. It offers a critical view of the openness and smartness of cities, at the same time that propose a novel ...

    Mobile Services for Green Living 

    Pajarito Grajales, Diego Fabián (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)

    Although many cities are promoting urban cycling, they do not analyse behavioural patterns or barriers faced during cycling with geospatial technologies. This thesis, placed within the fields of geoinformatics and serious ...

    Studying user behavior through a participatory sensing framework in an urban context 

    Ngo, Manh Khoi (Date of defense: 2018-11-22)

    The thesis details the design and implementation of a multi-purpose participatory sensing framework (Citizense) based on a list of requirements extracted from the literature. This framework enables ordinary users to ...