“Next Steps in the UCGIS Research Agenda”

Topics from:
A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science
Robert McMaster and E. Lynn Usery, 2004, published by Taylor & Francis, distributed by CRC Press

Hyperlinks are to short documents providing 2006 updates to the state-of-the-art on the topic since the 2004 publication of the book.

Call for 2006 Summer Assembly: Next Steps in the UCGIS Research Agenda (March 22, 2006)

1. Introduction to the UCGIS Research Agenda

2. Spatial Data Acquisition and Integration

3. Cognition of Geographic Information

4. Scale

5. Extensions to Geographic Representations

6. Spatial Analysis and Modeling in a GIS Environment

7. Research Issues on Uncertainty in Geographic Data and GIS-Based Analysis (forthcoming)

8. The Future of the Spatial Information Infrastructure

9. Distributed and Mobile Computing

10. GIS and Society: Interrelation, Integration, and Transformation

11. Geographic Visualization

12. Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science

13. Remotely-Acquired Data and Information in GIScience (update folds in with Ch. 2, Spatial Data Aquisition and Integration)

14. Geospatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

15. Postscript on the UCGIS and Research

Background  |  Grand Challenges |  Discussion Forum

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