1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society
The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society provides a relevant and comprehensive reference point for research and practice in this dynamic field. It offers detailed explanations of geospatial technologies and provides critical reviews and appraisals of their application in society within international and multi-disciplinary contexts as agents of change.
The ability of geospatial data to transform knowledge in contemporary and future societies forms an important theme running throughout the entire volume. Contributors reflect on the changing role of geospatial technologies in society and highlight new applications that represent transformative directions in society and point towards new horizons. Furthermore, they encourage dialogue across disciplines to bring new theoretical perspectives on geospatial technologies, from neurology to heritage studies.
The international contributions from leading scholars and influential practitioners that constitute the Handbook provide a wealth of critical examples of these technologies as agents of change in societies around the globe. The book will appeal to advanced undergraduates and practitioners interested or engaged in their application worldwide.
Introduction
Alexander J. Kent and Doug Specht
Part I: Origins and Perspectives of Geospatial Technologies
1. Latitude, Longitude, and Geospatial Technologies to 1884
Matthew H. Edney
2. The Photo-mechanical Era of Cartography: A Recollection
William Cartwright
3. The Roots of GIS
Michael F. Goodchild
4. Positivism, Power, and Critical GIS
Wen Lin
5. Geospatial Standards: An Example from Agriculture
Didier G. Leibovici, Roberto Santos, Gobe Hobona, Suchith Anand, Kiringai Kamau, Karel Charvat, Ben Schaap and Mike Jackson
6. Technology, Aesthetics, and Affordances
Philip J. Nicholson
7. Race and Mapping
Catalina Garzón-Galvis and Beth Rose Middleton Manning
8. Feminist Geography and Geospatial Technologies
Meghan Kelly
9. Mapping the Subaltern
Penelope Anthias
10. Geospatial Technologies and Rural and Indigenous Spatial Knowledges
María Belén Noroña
11. Social Constructivism and Geospatial Technologies: Neogeography, Big Data, and Deep Maps
Barney Warf
Part II: Understanding Geospatial Technologies
12. Mobile Mapping
Gordon Petrie
13. Airborne and Ground-based Laser Scanning
Mathias Lemmens
14. Drones and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Faine Greenwood
15. Airborne Photogrammetric Mapping
Gordon Petrie
16. Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
Oluibukun Gbenga Ajayi
17. Extended Realities (XR)
Lukasz Halik and Alexander J. Kent
18. Free and Open-Source Software for Geospatial Applications (FOSS4G)
Rafael Moreno-Sanchez and Maria Antonia Brovelli
19. APIs, Coding and Language for Geospatial Technologies
Oliver O'Brien
20. Spatial Analysis and Modelling
Timofey Samsonov
21. The Geovisualisation of Big Data
Nick Bearman
22. Machine Learning and Geospatial Technologies
Izabela Karsznia
23. Artificial Intelligence for Geospatial Applications
Vit Vozenilek
Part III: Applications of Geospatial Technologies
24. Location Matters: Trends in Location-Based Services
Georg Gartner
25. Mapping Buildings and Cities
Templin Tomasz
26. Underground Mapping
Aurel Sǎrǎcin
27. Geospatial Technology and Food Security: Forging a Four-Dimensional Partnership
Hillary Shaw
28. The Past, Present and Future of Technologies for Improved Water Management
Leonardo Alfonso
29. Ocean Mapping: Taxonomies of the Fluid Geospatial
Rupert Allan
30. Geospatial Technologies in Transport: Shaping and Recording Everyday Lived Experiences
Nigel Waters
31. Geospatial Technologies in Electrical Systems
Ivan Bobashev
32. Geospatial Technologies and Public Health
Fikriyah Winata, Sara McLafferty, Aída Guhlincozzi and Yiheng Zhou
33. Applications of GIScience to Disease Mapping: A COVID-19 Case Study
Leah Rosenkrantz and Nadine Schuurman
34. Geosurveillance and Society
Rob Kitchin
35. Geospatial Technology and Journalism in a Post-truth World
Amy Schmitz Weiss
36. Advancing Sustainability Research through Geospatial Technology and Social Media
Yaella Dipietr, Johannes Langemeyer, Derek Van Berkel and Andrea Ghermandi
37. Crisis and Hazard Mapping
Amelia Hunt
38. Humanitarian Relief and Geospatial Technologies
John Kostelnick
39. Geospatial Technology and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Doug Specht
40. Maps of Time
Menno-Jan Kraak
41 Geospatial Technologies in Archaeology
Alexander J. Kent and Doug Specht
42. Mapping Planetary Bodies
Trent Michael Hare
Part IV: New Ontologies and Strategies for Geospatial Technologies
43. Toward the Democratization of Geospatial Data: Evaluating Data Decisioning Practices
Victoria Fast, Nikki Rogers and Ryan Burns
44. Developing Geospatial Strategies
Mark Iliffe
45. Map Thinking Across the Life Sciences
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
46. Spatial Anthropology: Understanding Deep Mapping as a Form of Visual Ethnography
Les Roberts
47. The Quantum Turn for Geospatial Technologies and Society
Daniel Sui
48. The Locus Charter: Towards Ethical Principles and Practice for Location Data Services
Denise McKenzie and Ben Hawes
Biography
Alexander J. Kent is Honorary Reader in Cartography and Geographic Information Science at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, and leads the Coastal Connections project for World Monuments Fund and English Heritage.
Doug Specht is a Chartered Geographer and a Reader in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster, UK.
