Abstract:Global Positioning Systems (GPS) provide detailed
information on the location of an object on the Earth's surface.
Among the information they provide are the latitude and
longitude coordinates, the time in which it was taken, the direction
to which it was traveling, the speed and other parameters. This
information is analyzed and stored to support decision making in
various sectors. At present, the number of devices equipped with
receivers for these systems is increasing considerably as well as the
amount of information, which makes the data analysis process
difficult and demands greater storage needs. In order to reduce
the amount of data to be stored, a set of algorithms for GPS data
simplification, that carry out the spatial-temporal analysis of the
data are proposed; however, the nature of the data is not taken
into account. In the present investigation a comparison of different
algorithms for GPS data simplification is carried, taking into
account the noisy nature of the same ones. In order to reduce the
noise present in vehicular trajectories, the Kalman filter is selected
because it predicts the next state starting from the previous state,
taking into account the dynamics of movement of objects. As a
result, a comparison is obtained among some of the algorithms for
vehicular GPS trajectories simplification that constitute the base
of the formulation of more complex algorithms before carrying out
the filtering and after the data filtering is carried out. |