H. Couclelis (ed.)

Geographic Information Research

Bridging The Atlantic
Herausgeber: Craglia, Massimo; Couclelis, H.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to this edited collection demonstrate that geographic information research is truly global in character, cutting across a wide range of disciplines and addressing conceptual, methodological, technical, ethical and political issues alike. Of the six themes, two are broadly concerned with data integration (geographic data infrastructures, GIS diffusion and implementation); two are more technical and conceptual in nature (generalisation, concepts and paradigms), and two reflect to a larger extent the application-driven nature of GIS technology (spatial analysis and multimedia). Each section is introduced by chapters highlighting the key research issues. Further chapters explore these issues in greater depth, and benefit from the international collaboration. Through the comparison of results included in this book, the prospects for advancing the field and addressing the challenges of GIS research are greatly improved.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bsp Books Pvt. Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 171mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1197g
• ISBN-13: 9780748405947
• ISBN-10: 0748405941
• Artikelnr.: 25689528

Autorenporträt

DR. MASSIMO CRAGLIA lectures in Information Management and GIS at the Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, and is the coordinator of the European Science Foundation's GISDATA scientific programme. DR. HELEN COUCLELIS is associate director of the NCGIA, and professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are in the areas of urban theory, modelling and planning, spatial cognition and GIS.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Contributors
European Science Foundation and National Science Foundation
1 Introduction /Massimo Craglia
PART ONE Geographic Data Infrastructure
2 The US National Spatial Data Infrastructure /Nancy Tosta and Michael Domaratz
3 The European Geographic Information Infrastructure Debate /Ian Masser and Francois Salge
4 Spatial Data as a Test Bed for National Information Policy /Xavier R. Lopez
5 Infrastructures for Sharing Geographic Information: Lessons from the Great Lakes and the Columbia River /John Evans
6 European Micro
Data Availability: The Special Case of Britain /Daniel Darling
PART Two GIS Diffusion and Implementation
7 The Diffusion of GIS in Local Government in Europe /Ian Masser and Massimo Craglia
8 GIS Diffusion in Greece: The Development of a Greek GIS Community /Dimitris Assimakopoulos
9 In Search of the Dependent Variable: Toward Synthesis in GIS Implementation Research /Jeffrey K. Pinto and Harlan J. Onsrud
10 Leading and Managing the GIS Implementation Process: Beyond the Myth of the GIS Champion /Bijan Azad
11 GIS Technology and Organisational Context: Interaction and Adaptation /Zorica Nedovic
Budic
PART THREE Generalisation
12 Generalisation: Where Are We? Where Should We Go? /Jean
Philippe Lagrange
13 Formalising Cartographic Knowledge /Robert McMaster and Barbara Buttenfield
14 Cartographic Objects in a Multiscale Data Structure /Sabine Timpf
15 Efficient Handling of Large Spatial Data Sets by Generalised Delaunay Networks /Terje Midtb0
16 Shape
based Reconstruction of Natural Surfaces: An Application to the Antarctic Sea Floor /Michela Spagnuolo
17 Modelling Geometry for Linear Feature Generalisation /Corinne Plazanet
18 Representations of Data Quality /Kate Beard
PART FOUR Concepts and Paradigms
19 Concepts and Paradigms of Spatial Data /Peter Fisher
20 Cognitive Perspectives on Spatial and Spatio
temporal Reasoning /David Mark
21 The Role of Spatial Abilities in the Acquisition and Representation of Geographic Space /William Albert
22 Modelling Semantical, Spatial and Temporal Information in a GIS /May Yuan
23 CON.G.0.0.: A Conceptual Formalism for Geographic Database Design /Dimas Pantazis
24 Agent
based Pattern Identification in Imagery: Exploring Spatial Data with Artificial Life /Mark V. Finco
25 Digital Representation of Continuous Random Fields /Andrej Vckovski
PART FIVE Spatial Analysis
26 GIS and Spatial Statistical Analysis /David Unwin
27 Linking GIS and Multilevel Modelling in the Spatial Analysis of House Prices /Nina Bullen
28 Modelling Urban Air Pollution using GIS /Sue Collins
29 GIS in Quantitative Geomorphology
Assessment of Denudation Rates in the Central Kenya Rift /Sigrid Roessner
30 A Study of Voter Turnout in New York City Elections using Spatial Statistics /David Olson
31 GIS Applications in the Arctic Environment /Alexander Baklanov, Tatjana Makarova and Larissa Nazarenko
32 Ecologists, Farmers, Tourists
GIS Support Planning of Red Stone Park, China /Kongjian Yu
33 A Generic Spatial Decision
support System for Planning Retail Facilities /Theo Arentze, Aloys Borgers and Harry Timmermans
34 A Spatial Decision
support System for Collaborative Solid Waste Planning /Marianne MacDonald
PART SIX New Data Types: GIS and Multimedia
35 Progress towards Spatial Multimedia /Jonathan Raper
36 Towards Hypermedia
aided GIS in local Planning /Lars Bodum
37 The Use of Multimedia Spatial Data Handling in Environmental Impact Assessment /Alexandra Fonseca and Antonio Camara
38 An Open System for 3D Visualisation and Animation of Geographic Information /Christopher Giertsen, Oddmar Sandvik and Rune Torkildsen
39 Postscript: New Directions for GIS Research /Michael Goodchild
Index.