Frontiers of Geographic Information Technology [Paperback]

Originally intended for desktop mapping and analysis, Geographic Information Systems have been coupled to other technologies, due to the limitations in commercially available systems, and has occurred in areas including visualisation, simulation, data storage and management and decision support. This book, written by an international group of experts, focuses on the use of GIS and the technology it has been allied to. A companion website offers additional materials and links.

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  Overview (Sanjay Rana and Jayant Sharma).- Soft Computing and Geographical Information Systems (Yingjie Yang, David Gillingwater and Chris Hinde).- Using Geospatial Information for Autonomous Systems Control (Ayanna Howard and Edward Tunstel).- Simulating Spatial Dynamics Using Cell & Agent-Based Urban Models (Mike Batty).- Distributed Geospatial Information Services (Chaowei (Phil) Yang and C. Vincent Tao).- Geospatial Grid (Liping Di).- Geospatial Semantic Web (Yaser Bishr).- The Role of DBMS in New Generation GIS Architecture (Sisi Zlatanova and Jantien Stoter).- Multimodal Interfaces for Representing and Accessing Geospatial Information (Reg Golledge, Matthew T. Rice and R. Daniel Jacobson).- Way Finding With Mobile Devices Decision Support (Sabine Timpf).- Augmented Rel#,