Research trends in geographic information science

✍ Scribed by Helen Couclelis (auth.), Gerhard Navratil (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In June/July 2008 the Institute for Geoinformation and Cartography at the Vienna University of Technology organized a scientific colloquium in this city, where 15 well-known scientists presented their ideas on research for the upcoming decade. This book contains papers prepared by the participants as well as by other researchers. The eighteen papers in this book reflect the opinion of a core group of Geoinformation scientists about future research topics. Dealing with these topics poses multiple research questions for the coming years

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Ontology, Epistemology, Teleology: Triangulating Geographic Information Science....Pages 3-15
Geonoemata Elicited: Concepts, Objects, and Other Uncertain Geographic Things....Pages 17-25
Virtue Ethics for GIS Professionals....Pages 27-37
Why Is Scale an Effective Descriptor for Data Quality? The Physical and Ontological Rationale for Imprecision and Level of Detail....Pages 39-61
Semantic Engineering....Pages 63-76
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
A Common Spatial Model for GIS....Pages 79-94
Computation with Imprecise Probabilities....Pages 95-99
Spatial Data Quality: Problems and Prospects....Pages 101-121
Latent Analysis as a Potential Method for Integrating Spatial Data Concepts....Pages 123-133
Stereology for Multitemporal Images with an Application to Flooding....Pages 135-150
Modeling Spatiotemporal Paths for Single Moving Objects....Pages 151-167
Moving Objects in Databases and GIS: State-of-the-Art and Open Problems....Pages 169-187
The Degree Distribution of Random Planar Graphs....Pages 189-199
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Geographical Information Engineering in the 21 st Century....Pages 203-218
Towards Visual Summaries of Geographic Databases Based on Chorems....Pages 219-234
Intelligent Spatial Communication....Pages 235-250
Training Games and GIS....Pages 251-264
Cadastre and Economic Development....Pages 265-280
Back Matter....Pages 1-3

✦ Subjects

Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Applied Earth Sciences