In the world of geospatial technologies, change is afoot. In the past five years, we have seen
the emergence of a wide array of new technologies that enable an ever-expanding range of …

There have been several obstacles to an embrace of critical theoretical work in GIScience;
chief among them is the barrier between conceptualization and formalization. Early critics of …

A number of approaches for integrating GIS and qualitative research have emerged in
recent years, as part of a resurgence of interest in mixed methods research in geography …

Geospatial data users increasingly face the need to assess how datasets fit an intended use.
However, information describing data quality is typically difficult to access and understand …

Effective integration and wide sharing of geospatial data is an important and basic premise
to facilitate the research and applications of geographic information science. However, the …

It is even more remarkable to some of us that up to this point, there has been no
thoroughgoing discussion by GIS practitioners and theorists about the epistemology of their …

Many time-critical applications such as emergency response, location-based services, and
real time traffic management need instant access to diverse data to make quick decisions …

This paper proposes an ontology-enabled framework for a geospatial problem-solving
environment (geospatial PSE) that allows collaboration among Web-service providers …

Human interactions with geographical information are contextualized by problem-solving
activities which endow meaning to geospatial data and processing. However, existing …

Landscape Research has been established as an interdisciplinary field dealing with
complex environmental processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. During the course …