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Research Trends in Geographic Information Science

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Navratil, Gerhard. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography,
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88244-2
Table of Contents:
  • Section I: Philosophical background and Semantics
  • Ontology, Epistemology, Teleology: Triangulating Geographic Information Science
  • Geonoemata Elicited: Concepts, Objects, and Other Uncertain Geographic Things
  • Virtue Ethics for GIS Professionals
  • Why Is Scale an Effective Descriptor for Data Quality? The Physical and Ontological Rationale for Imprecision and Level of Detail
  • Semantic Engineering
  • Section II: Mathematical Methods
  • A Common Spatial Model for GIS
  • Computation with Imprecise Probabilities
  • Spatial Data Quality: Problems and Prospects
  • Latent Analysis as a Potential Method for Integrating Spatial Data Concepts
  • Stereology for Multitemporal Images with an Application to Flooding
  • Modeling Spatiotemporal Paths for Single Moving Objects
  • Moving Objects in Databases and GIS: State-of-the-Art and Open Problems
  • The Degree Distribution of Random Planar Graphs
  • Section III: Tools and Applications
  • Geographical Information Engineering in the 21 Century
  • Towards Visual Summaries of Geographic Databases Based on Chorems
  • Intelligent Spatial Communication
  • Training Games and GIS
  • Cadastre and Economic Development.