Frontiers of Geographic Information Technology

by Rana, Sanjay; Sharma, Jayant

• ISBN13: 9783540256854
• ISBN10: 3540256857
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-20
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Although designed primarily for desktop mapping and analysis, Geographic Information Systems have, for some years, been 'coupled' to other 'allied' technologies. This coupling or integration has occurred for some time due to the limitations in commercially available systems. It has occurred in several areas including visualisation (virtual reality), simulation (pedestrian, urban modelling), data storage and management (distributed or Internet GIS) and decision support. The chapters of the book, written by an international group of experts examine several of these discrete areas, focussing on the use of GIS and the technology it has been allied to.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Geographic Information Technologies – An Overview	1	(46)
Sanjay Rana and Jayant Sharma
Chapter 2 Soft Computing in Geographical Information Systems	47	(16)
Yingjie Yang, David Gillingwater and Chris Hinde
Chapter 3 Using Geospatial Information for Autonomous Systems Control	63	(18)
Ayanna Howard and Edward Tunstel
Chapter 4 Agent-Based Technologies and GIS: Simulating Crowding, Panic, and Disaster Management	81	(22)
Michael Batty
Chapter 5 Distributed Geospatial Information Service	103	(18)
Chaowei (Phil) Yang and C. Vincent Tao
Chapter 6 Geospatial Grid	121	(18)
Liping Di
Chapter 7 Geospatial Semantic Web	139	(16)
Yaser Bishr
Chapter 8 The role of DBMS in the new generation GIS architecture	155	(26)
Sisi Zlatanova and Jantien Stoter
Chapter 9 Multimodal Interfaces for Representing and Accessing Geospatial Information	181	(28)
Reginald G. Golledge, Matthew T. Rice and R. Daniel Jacobson
Chapter 10 Wayfinding with mobile devices: decision support for the mobile citizen	209	(20)
Sabine Timpf
Chapter 11 Augmented Reality Visualization of Geospatial Data	229	(12)
Daniel Holweg and Ursula Kretschmer
Chapter 12 Geo-ICT and Development — The Inverted Pyramid Syndrome	241	(16)
Satyaprakash, Ayon K.Tarafdar and Ravi Gupta
Chapter 13 Privacy Issues in Geographic Information Technologies	257	(22)
Alastair R. Beresford
Chapter 14 Frontiers of Geographic Information Technology	279	(10)
Sanjay Rana and Jayant Sharma
References	289	(36)
Subject Index	325