BIOGRAPHY Alistair Edwardes is a geography graduate, who completed an MSc in GIS at Edinburgh in 1997 and then worked on an ESRC funded project on data compression of census boundary data. He is currently on the ESPRIT funded AGENT project exploring intelligent mapping technologies and preparing a PhD on map generalisation. William Mackaness is a lecturer in geography at the University of Edinb...

a State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Center for Remote Sensing and GIS of Geography College, Beijing Key Laboratory for Remote Sensing of Environment and Digital Cities, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China b Center for Remote Sensing, Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA c Department of Geography and National Centre for Earth Observation...

This paper presents a brief review of risk studies in Geography since the beginning 20th century, from approaches focused on physical-natural components or social aspects, to perspectives that incorporate systemic approach seeking understand and explain issues at spatial level. The considers principles interaction between multiple variables dynamic organization processes, as part new formulatio...

Our goal is to improve the way in which Geographic Information System (GIS) databases are created, updated and utilized. We are building software systems that will enable users to rapidly and inexpensively acquire, update, analyze and visualize high-resolution digital elevation maps (DEM), ortho-images, and other GIS products from digital images collected by a wide range of aerial and satellite...

Intelligent geographic information system (IGIS) is one of the promising topics in GIS field. It aims at making GIS tools more sensitive for large volumes of data stored inside GIS systems by integrating GIS with other computer sciences such as Expert system (ES) Data Warehouse (DW), Decision Support System (DSS), or Knowledge Discovery Database (KDD). One of the main branches of IGIS is the Ge...

Grid Geospatial Information Service (Grid GIS) system aims to study and develop grid-based uniform spatial information access and analysis system. Data resources of Grid GIS include not only original and traditional GIS data but remotely sensed data. Analysis function is made up of not only single spatial information access but complex and quick data processing. The Grid GIS system can provide ...

22 Moving from a traditional dialect geography research methodology to one in which data are processed 23 electronically and where visualization is used as a research tool can be of great benefit to dialect geography. 24 A working environment offering full support for using visualization as a research tool could take dialect 25 geography into the era of eScience. Despite the advent of electroni...

The development of a smart city and digital twin requires the integration Building Information Modeling (BIM) Geographic Systems (GIS), where BIM models are to be integrated into GIS for visualization and/or analysis. However, intrinsic differences between have led enormous problems in BIM-to-GIS data conversion, use City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) has further escalated this issue. Thi...

Reference to places is a central but largely underexposed problem of information science. Place has been a major object of research in many domains including Geography, Cognitive Science and Geographic Information Science. However, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been built solely on space reference systems creating a gap between human conceptualization and machine representation. Whi...