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How well do we really know the world? Uncertainty in GIScience
Journal of Spatial Information Science, 2020 There are many reasons why geospatial data are not geography, but merely representations of it. Thus geospatial data will always leave their user uncertain about the true nature of the world.
Michael F. Goodchild
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Criteria of geographic relevance [PDF]
, 2010 In the last few years, remarkable advances in mobile computing, telecommunication services, and positioning systems have radically changed the way we seek for geographic information.
De Sabbata, S
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Rethinking GIScience Education in an Age of Disruptions
Transactions in GIS, Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2025.ABSTRACT GIS and GIScience education have continually evolved over the past three decades, responding to technological advances and societal issues. Today, the content and context in which GIScience is taught continue to be impacted by these disruptions, notably from technology through artificial intelligence (AI) and society through the myriad ...
Amy E. Frazier +26 more
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Visualisation of Spatial Data Uncertainty. A Case Study of a Database of Topographic Objects
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019 The Database of Topographic Objects (DTO) is the official database of Poland for collecting and providing spatial data with the detail level of a topographic map.
Marek Ślusarski, Magdalena Jurkiewicz
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 1, March 2025.Short Abstract This short provocation implores more academic geographers to embrace the joy of making maps and to take pride in the links that maps have with the subject. It contends that, despite geography and maps being synonymous in the eyes of many (and most importantly, the public at large), geographers' narrow conception of what maps have been ...
James Cheshire
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GIScience for Sustainable Development
Journal of Geographic Information System, 2017 Due to the importance of development and its impact on our life, in this paper we are going to elaborate on the Sustainable Development and its related issues. In the following, due to the essential role that GIScience can play on the success trend of Sustainable Development, GIScience will be defined and its importance will be discussed as an ...
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GIScience for a driverless age [PDF]
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2018 ABSTRACTA driverless or autonomous vehicle requires significant support from information technology, both from central databases and from local sensors. The requirements for route guidance are in many ways more demanding than those of current guidance technologies, especially in the ‘last mile’ of a route.
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IET Smart Cities, Volume 7, Issue 1, January/December 2025.This paper presents ACAMAI, an AI‐assisted pipeline for detecting and mapping urban accessibility constraints using Google Street View imagery. It combines a YOLOv8 object detector with an automated panorama scanning process to identify features such as curb ramps, missing ramps and obstacles, which are then georeferenced and integrated into ...
Rui S. Moreira +7 more
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3D WebGIS: From Visualization to Analysis. An Efficient Browser-Based 3D Line-of-Sight Analysis
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018 3D WebGIS systems have been mentioned in the literature almost since the beginning of the graphical web era in the late 1990s. The potential use of 3D WebGIS is linked to a wide range of scientific and application domains, such as planning, controlling ...
Michael Auer, Alexander Zipf
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DroughtScape- Winter 2010 [PDF]
, 2010 USDM Forum Highlights Drought Likely to Ease Research Shows Birds Vulnerable to Drought Drought Recedes in 2009 CA, TX Suffer Impacts from Ongoing Drought NDMC Wishes Ryu Well Conferees Pick SPI for Global Drought ...
Smith, Kelly
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