Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space: International Conference GIS - From Space to Territory: Theories and Methods of

ISBN-13: 9783540559665 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 439 str.

Andrew U. Frank; Irene Campari; Ubaldo Formentini

Opis

This volume collects the papers presented at an international symposium dedicated to spatial and temporal reasoning in geographic space. The contributors discuss temporal databases, the understanding of spatial concepts and the unique problems of spatial reasoning in large-scale space.

Spis treści

Do people understand spatial concepts: The case of first-order primitives.- Temporal databases.- People manipulate objects (but cultivate fields): Beyond the raster-vector debate in GIS.- Time and space:An economic model.- The changing language of and persisting patterns in the urban design of Edo/Tokyo.- Toward a behavioral theory of regionalization.- Descriptive modeling and prescriptive modeling in spatial data handling.- The geometry of environmental knowledge.- Spatial reasoning using symbolic arrays.- Using orientation information for qualitative spatial reasoning.- The observer's point of view: An extension of symbolic projections.- Reasoning about gradual changes of topological relationships.- The meaning of “neighbour”.- A hierarchical triangle-based model for terrain description.- A model for expressing topological integrity constraints in geographic databases.- Encoding spatial information: The evidence for hierarchical processing.- Is there a relationship between spatial cognition and environmental patterns?.- Counter-intuitive geographic ‘facts’: Clues for spatial reasoning at geographic scales.- Spatial-linguistic reasoning in LEI.- User models and information theory in the design of a query interface for GIS.- A conceptual model of wayfinding using multiple levels of abstraction.- Towards acquiring spatio-temporal knowledge from sensor data.- Automatically acquiring knowledge by digital maps in artificial intelligence planning techniques.- Machine induction of geospatial knowledge.- Treatment of qualitative geographic information in monitoring environmental pollution.