Frontiers of Geographic Information Technology

Description

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. Geographic Information Technologies — An Overview....Pages 1-46 Soft Computing in Geographical Information Systems....Pages 47-61 Using Geospatial Information for Autonomous Systems Control....Pages 63-80 Agent-Based Technologies and GIS: Simulating Crowding, Panic, and Disaster Management....Pages 81-101 Distributed Geospatial Information Service....Pages 103-120 Geospatial Grid....Pages 121-137 Geospatial Semantic Web....Pages 139-154 The role of DBMS in the new generation GIS architecture....Pages 155-180 Multimodal Interfaces for Representing and Accessing Geospatial Information....Pages 181-208 Wayfinding with mobile devices: decision support for the mobile citizen....Pages 209-228 Augmented Reality Visualization of Geospatial Data....Pages 229-240 Geo-ICT and Development — The Inverted Pyramid Syndrome....Pages 241-256 Privacy Issues in Geographic Information Technologies....Pages 257-277 Frontiers of Geographic Information Technology....Pages 279-287