A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science - 9780367454340

CRC Press

A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science examines the fundamental issues that must be understood and the scientific problems that must be solved if the use of geographic information systems is to advance. Chapters in this book address the basics of GIScience, and how they relate to the research agendas of cognate fields > A close relationship exists between GIS and numerous applications, including cartography, photogrammetry, geodesy, surveying, computer and information science, and statistics, among others. Scientists coined the term \""geographic information science (GIScience)\"" to describe the theory behind these fields. A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science extensively details the issues and fundamental scientific problems that must be solved if the use of GIS in these and other fields is to advance.Immediately following the founding of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), the group identified in a Research Agenda then