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Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide Effective techniques for performing smarter geospatial analysis using location intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789809411
Length 170 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abdishakur Hassan Abdishakur Hassan
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Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan
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Geofencing

A geofence involves creating virtual fences around real-world geographic entities. It can be either a dynamically created geofence or predefined boundaries. In a dynamic geofence, the boundaries are created based on a chosen point location and can be created on the fly. This depends on, for example, the current location of a user. In contrast, a static geofence is when predetermined boundaries are used, for example, danger zones, city centers, or a parole exclusionary zone.

Geofencing, on the other hand, contains a geofence and some other components including GPS locations, geometry topologies, and notification systems and entails the use of these components to a certain application. Here, the interaction and use of these components are what enables geofence concepts to be used in wide domain applications. As precise GPS locations with smartphones become ubiquitous...

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