GIScience Builds Better Geographic Information Systems While Geographic Information Systems answers the “what” and “where”, Geographic Information Science is concerned with the “how”. For example, GIScience conceptualizes how to store spatial information, collect data, and analyze it. It encompass...
Geographic Information Science (GIScience) is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the nature of geographic phenomena and of geographic information. It provides theoretical foundations for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the rational for research and development of GIS in mainstream...
Geographic Information Science (GIScience), including satellite-based remote sensing methods offer several advantages over conventional ground-based methods used to map and monitor salt-affected soil (SAS) features. This study was designed to assess the accuracy of information on soil salinization ...
Geographic information systems(GIS) are fundamentally an applied science and although the GIS vendor society provides us with the hardware and software with newer, better, and faster technological tools, it is the domain specialists who apply these tools that define the state of the art. The brain...
The Advances in Geographic Information Science series aims to: present current and emerging innovations in GIScience; describe new and robust GIScience methods for use in transdisciplinary problem solving and decision making contexts, illustrate GIScience case studies for use in teaching and training ...
a brief review of previous work on resolution in GIScience; a formal theory of spatial and temporal resolution of observations underlying geographic information. The theory has a dual importance: (i) at the theoretical level, it is to be taken as a small and necessary piece of the science of...
What is Geographic Information Science (GISc)? While GIS answers “what” and “where”, Geographic Information Science (GIScience) focuses on “how”. How will GIS grow in the upcoming years? This is a question that Geographic Information Science understands best. ...
geographic information science(GIScience). We then discuss how this research area has been inf l uenced byrecent developments in computing and data-intensive analysis, before settingout its core organizing principles from a practical perspective. The followingsection ref l ects on the key ...
workshop identified two important research streams: research in basic Geographic Information Science (hereafter, GIScience), and research using geographic information systems (hereafter, GIS). It is imperative that research in these two areas be integrated, as ap- plications motivate the science, and...
This study visualizes and analyzes a network of the authors of selected journal articles in GIScience about the first decade of VGI research. It uses the number of citations, one local network centrality measures (i.e., degree), and three global network centrality measures (i.e., closeness...