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A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science examines the fundamental issues that must be understood and the scientific problems that must be solved if the use of geographic information systems is to advance. Chapters in this book address the basics of GIScience, and how they relate to the research agendas of cognate fields such as statistics and cognitive science. This book is essential reading for scholars who will expand the frontiers of GIS research and technology. Topics include spatial analysis and modeling, visualization, ontology, data mining, distributed and mobile computing, remotely acquired information, GIS and society, and much more.
List of contents
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.
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McMaster, Robert B.; Usery, E. Lynn
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A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science examines the fundamental issues that must be understood and the scientific problems that must be solved if the use of geographic information systems is to advance. Chapters in this book address the basics of GIScience, and how they relate to the research agendas of cognate fields
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"The publication of this book is a significant milestone in the development of GIScience…"Michael F. Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara, from The Foreword
