1st Edition
A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science
416 Pages
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CRC Press
416 Pages
36 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
416 Pages
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CRC Press
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A close relationship exists between GIS and numerous applications, including cartography, photogrammetry, geodesy, surveying, computer and information science, and statistics, among others. Scientists coined the term "geographic information science (GIScience)" to describe the theory behind these fields. A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science extensively details the issues and... Read more
Introduction to the UCGIS research agenda. Spatial data acquisition and integration. Cognition of geographic information. Scale. Extensions to geographic representations. Spatial analysis and modeling in a GIS environment. Research issues on uncertainty in geographic data and GIS-based analysis. The future of the spatial information infrastructure. Distributed and mobile computing. GIS and society: Interrelation, integration, and transformation. Geographic visualization. Ontological foundations for Geographic information science. Remotely acquired data and information in GIScience. Geospatial data mining and knowledge discovery. Postscript on the UCGIS and research.
Biography
McMaster, Robert B.; Usery, E. Lynn
