Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation

Location-based services use location as contextual data to exclude irrelevant services from users. However almost all positioning technologies can only provide a location with a certain degree of accuracy. It is necessary to have a framework which can handle this inaccuracy and other uncertainties i...

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Main Authors: Basiri, Anahid, Amirian, Pouria, Winstanley, Adam, Moore, Terry, Hill, Chris
Other Authors: Liu, Chun
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Published: Springer International Publishing 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33486/
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author Basiri, Anahid
Amirian, Pouria
Winstanley, Adam
Moore, Terry
Hill, Chris
author2 Liu, Chun
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Basiri, Anahid
Amirian, Pouria
Winstanley, Adam
Moore, Terry
Hill, Chris
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description Location-based services use location as contextual data to exclude irrelevant services from users. However almost all positioning technologies can only provide a location with a certain degree of accuracy. It is necessary to have a framework which can handle this inaccuracy and other uncertainties in order to provide a better and more adaptive service. In addition to positioning inaccuracy, location-based services can suffer from other aspects of uncertainty, such as data incompleteness and inconsistency. There is no universal positioning technique which can provide the position of the user seamlessly indoors and outdoors with an acceptable degree of accuracy. Consequently, it is possible to lose the position of the user for a period of time. To avoid this, some systems use more than one positioning technology, each having incomplete datasets; however they still may produce mutually inconsistent data. If an uncertain spatial dataset is stored and analysed in a framework which cannot handle uncertainty, some aspects of the input data may be missed and the outcome may not be fully applicable in real world applications. This chapter aims at developing a rough set-theory-based navigation application which can provide navigational instructions to users by taking spatial uncertainty into account.
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spelling nottingham-334862020-05-04T16:50:59Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33486/ Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation Basiri, Anahid Amirian, Pouria Winstanley, Adam Moore, Terry Hill, Chris Location-based services use location as contextual data to exclude irrelevant services from users. However almost all positioning technologies can only provide a location with a certain degree of accuracy. It is necessary to have a framework which can handle this inaccuracy and other uncertainties in order to provide a better and more adaptive service. In addition to positioning inaccuracy, location-based services can suffer from other aspects of uncertainty, such as data incompleteness and inconsistency. There is no universal positioning technique which can provide the position of the user seamlessly indoors and outdoors with an acceptable degree of accuracy. Consequently, it is possible to lose the position of the user for a period of time. To avoid this, some systems use more than one positioning technology, each having incomplete datasets; however they still may produce mutually inconsistent data. If an uncertain spatial dataset is stored and analysed in a framework which cannot handle uncertainty, some aspects of the input data may be missed and the outcome may not be fully applicable in real world applications. This chapter aims at developing a rough set-theory-based navigation application which can provide navigational instructions to users by taking spatial uncertainty into account. Springer International Publishing Liu, Chun 2014-07-15 Book Section PeerReviewed Basiri, Anahid, Amirian, Pouria, Winstanley, Adam, Moore, Terry and Hill, Chris (2014) Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation. In: Principle and application progress in location-based services. Lecture notes in geoinformation and cartography . Springer International Publishing, Cham, Swtizerland, pp. 343-355. ISBN 978-3-319-04028-8 Location-based services (LBS); navigation services; uncertainty positioning technologies http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04028-8_23 doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04028-8_23 doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04028-8_23
spellingShingle Location-based services (LBS); navigation services; uncertainty positioning technologies
Basiri, Anahid
Amirian, Pouria
Winstanley, Adam
Moore, Terry
Hill, Chris
Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation
title Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation
title_full Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation
title_fullStr Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation
title_full_unstemmed Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation
title_short Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation
title_sort spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation
topic Location-based services (LBS); navigation services; uncertainty positioning technologies
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