Recent efforts in spatial and temporal data models and database systems have attempted to
achieve an appropriate kind of interaction between the two areas. This paper reviews the …

GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition, provides a full, up-to-date overview of GIS,
both Geographic Information Systems and the study of Geographic Information Science …

Moving Objects Databases is the first uniform treatment of moving objects databases, the
technology that supports GPS and RFID. It focuses on the modeling and design of data from …

Recent advances in information technology have enabled scientists to generate
unprecedented amounts of earth-related data, with tremendous potential for dealing with …

Species patchiness implies that nearby observations of species abundance tend to be
similar or that individual conspecific organisms are more closely spaced than by random …

The need for a global approach to natural hazard and risk assessment is becoming
increasingly apparent to the disaster risk reduction community. Different natural (eg …

Interurban innovation network is a typical multiplex network formed by the interactive
coupling of spaces of flows of technology cooperation and transfer. However, studies …

Geographic information science (GIScience) and remote sensing have long provided
essential data and methodological support for natural resource challenges and …

Wildfire evacuation triggers refer to prominent geographic features used in wildfire
evacuation practices, and when a fire crosses a feature, an evacuation warning is issued to …

A common—perhaps modal—representation of geography in spatial analysis and
geographic information systems is native (unexamined) objects interacting based on simple …