Generating heat maps of popular routes online from massive mobile sports tracking application data in milliseconds while respecting privacy

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1813-1826

  Sainio, Jani ^a   Westerholm, Jan ^a   Oksanen, Juha ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Big data; Data privacy; Heat map

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952785343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi4041813     Document Type: Article

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