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Interoperating Geographic Information Systems

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Editors:
  1. Michael Goodchild

    1. University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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  2. Max Egenhofer

    1. University of Maine, USA

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  3. Robin Fegeas

    1. U. S. Geological Survey, USA

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  4. Cliff Kottman

    1. Open GIS Consortium Inc., USA

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 495)

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Table of contents (36 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Theory and Concepts

    1. Introduction: Theory and Concepts

      • Max J. Egenhofer
      Pages 1-4

    2. Changing Focus on Interoperability in Information Systems:From System, Syntax, Structure to Semantics

      • Amit P. Sheth
      Pages 5-29

    3. Interoperability and Spatial Information Theory

      • Andrej Vckovski
      Pages 31-37

    4. The Open GIS Consortium and Progress Toward Interoperability in Gis

      • Clifford A. Kottman
      Pages 39-54

    5. Probing the Concept of Information Communities-A First Step Toward Semantic Interoperability

      • A. Yaser Bishr, H. Pundt, W. Kuhn, M. Radwan
      Pages 55-69

    6. Characterizing the Semantic Content of Geographic Data, Models, and Systems

      • Mark N. Gahegan
      Pages 71-83

    7. Designing for Interoperability: Overcoming Semantic Differences

      • Francis Harvey
      Pages 85-97

    8. Interoperability by Exchanging Executable Content

      • Andrej Vckovski
      Pages 99-106

    9. Supporting Interoperation of GIS Objects

      • Silvia Nittel, Richard R. Muntz
      Pages 107-121

    10. A Specification Language for Interoperable GIS

      • Andrew U. Frank, Werner Kuhn
      Pages 123-132

  3. Modeling in Distributed Environments

    1. Introduction: Modeling in Distributed Environments

      • Michael F. Goodchild
      Pages 133-134

    2. Interoperability of Geographic Information: From the Spreadsheet to Virtual Environments

      • Pereira Pedro Gonçalves, Nelson Neves, João Pedro Silva, Joaquim Muchaxo, António Câmara
      Pages 135-147

    3. Geographical Modeling in Heterogeneous Computing Environments

      • David A. Bennett, Greg A. Wade, Raja Sengupta
      Pages 149-163

    4. Geospatial Information Extraction: Querying or Quarrying?

      • Agnès Voisard, Marcus Jürgens
      Pages 165-179

    5. Geospatial Modeling: A Case Study for a Statewide Land Information Strategy

      • David Pullar, Kristin Stock
      Pages 181-194

    6. Information Brokers for a Web-Based Geographic Information System

      • Ian Finch, Eleanor Small
      Pages 195-202

    7. Automated Metadata Interpretation to Assist in the Use of Unfamiliar Gis Data Sources

      • Brandon S. Plewe, Steven R. Johnson
      Pages 203-214

  4. Systems and Experiences

    1. Introduction: Systems and Experiences

      • Clifford A. Kottman
      Pages 215-219

    2. IRIS: A Tool to Support Data Analysis with Maps

      • Gennady L. Andrienko, Natalia V. Andrienko
      Pages 221-234
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Geographic information systems have developed rapidly in the past decade, and are now a major class of software, with applications that include infrastructure maintenance, resource management, agriculture, Earth science, and planning. But a lack of standards has led to a general inability for one GIS to interoperate with another. It is difficult for one GIS to share data with another, or for people trained on one system to adapt easily to the commands and user interface of another. Failure to interoperate is a problem at many levels, ranging from the purely technical to the semantic and the institutional.
Interoperating Geographic Information Systems is about efforts to improve the ability of GISs to interoperate, and has been assembled through a collaboration between academic researchers and the software vendor community under the auspices of the US National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and the Open GIS Consortium Inc. It includes chapters on the basic principles and the various conceptual frameworks that the research community has developed to think about the problem. Other chapters review a wide range of applications and the experiences of the authors in trying to achieve interoperability at a practical level. Interoperability opens enormous potential for new ways of using GIS and new mechanisms for exchanging data, and these are covered in chapters on information marketplaces, with special reference to geographic information. Institutional arrangements are also likely to be profoundly affected by the trend towards interoperable systems, and nowhere is the impact of interoperability more likely to cause fundamental change than in education, as educators address the needs of a new generation of GIS users with access to a new generation of tools. The book concludes with a series of chapters on education and institutional change.
Interoperating Geographic Information Systems is suitable asa secondary text for graduate level courses in computer science, geography, spatial databases, and interoperability and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry, commerce and government.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

    Michael Goodchild

  • University of Maine, USA

    Max Egenhofer

  • U. S. Geological Survey, USA

    Robin Fegeas

  • Open GIS Consortium Inc., USA

    Cliff Kottman

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