Advanced geoinformation science / edited by Chaowei Yang [and others].

Many of the challenges of the next century will have physical dimensions, such as tsunamis, hurricanes, and climate change as well as human dimensions such as economic crises, epidemics, and emergency responses. With pioneering editors and expert contributors, Advanced Geoinformation Science explores how certain technical aspects of geoinformation have been used and could be used to address such global issues. The editors and chapter authors have been involved in global initiatives such as Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and Digital Earth, and research problems such as air quality, public health, and cloud computing. The book delineates the problems communities are likely to face and how advanced geoinformation science can be a part of their solution. It introduces different methods in collecting spatial data as the initial feeds to geoinformation science and computing platforms. It discusses systems for data management, data integration and analysis, the geoinformation infrastructure, as well as knowledge capture, formatting, and utilization. The book then explores a variety of geoinformation applications, highlighting environmental, agriculture, and urban planning uses.--Publisher's description.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Advanced Geoinformation Science: An Overview / C. Yang, D. Wong, and R. Yang -- Earth Observations / L.S. Chiu, X. Hao, R.G. Resmini, D. Sun, A. Stefanidis, J.J. Qu, and R. Yang -- Geoinformation Computing Platforms / Q. Huang, C. Yang, W. Li, H. Wu, J. Xie, and Y. Cao -- Data Access and Data Systems / R. Yang, H.K. Ramapriyan, and C.B. Meyer -- Spatial Data Analysis and Geoinformation Extraction / A. Croitoru, D. Guo, F. Wang, D. Wong, P. Agouris, and A. Stefanidis -- Geoinformation Infrastructure (GII) / X. Shi, D. Nebert, C. Zhang, H. Yang, H. Wu, P. Zhao, Z. Li, L. Di, Q. Huang, J. Li, W. Li, M. Sun, and G. Yu -- Geoinformation Knowledge Representation and Applications / R. Raskin, N. Zhou, and W. Li -- Environmental and Related Applications / J.L. Aron, S. Luzzadder-Beach, M. Sun, F. Wang, L.E. Jackson, G. Susanke, E. Washburn, J. White, D. Wong, C. Yang, and S. Young -- Other Applications / M. Deng, Z. Liu, Q. Miao, Q. Pan, M. Zhang, L.S. Chiu, L. Di, S. Kempler, L. Milich, H. Rui, J. Tan, Y. Tang, W. Teng, R. Yang, H. Yu, and C. Yang -- Vision for Geoinformation Science / K. Foote, M. Bambacus, Q. Miao, H. Wu, W. Li, J. Li, J. Tan, Y. Tang, M. Sun, and H. Yu.