Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS : A Theoretical Basis for GIS. European Conference, COSIT'93, Marciana Marina, Elba Island, Italy, September 19-22, 1993. Proceedings

by Andrew U. Frank (editor)

A cognitive model for the process of multimodal, incremental route descriptions.- Cognitive maps, cognitive collages, and spatial mental models.- A logical framework for reasoning about space.- Maintaining qualitative spatial knowledge.- Qualitative triangulation for spatial reasoning.- Enhancing qualitative spatial reasoning - Combining orientation and distance.- Map semantics.- Development of a cartographic language.- Spatial queries and data models.- Topological querying of multiple map layers.- Towards a conceptual data model for the analysis of spatio-temporal the example of the search for optimal grazing strategies.- The cognitive structure of An analysis of temporal sequences.- Hierarchies of space and time.- The voronoi model and cultural applications to the social sciences and humanities.- Interaction with GIS attribute data based on categorical coverages.- The semantics of relations in 2D space using representative Spatial indexes.- Computing visibility maps on a digital terrain model.- Toward a theoretical framework for geographic entity types.- Land, space and spatial planning in three time regions.- Geographic and manipulable space in two Tamil linguistic systems.- Scale and multiple psychologies of space.- GIS and modeling prerequisites.- A map editing kernel application to multiple scale display.- Metaphors create theories for users.- Using a landscape metaphor to represent a corpus of documents.- From interface to the spatial environment as a medium for interaction.- A keystroke level analysis of manual map digitizing.- Critical issues in the evaluation of spatial autocorrelation.- A directional path distance model for raster distance mapping.- Symbolic spatial reasoning on object shapes for qualitative matching.- Reasoning about spatial structure in landscapes with Geographic Information Systems.

500 pages, Paperback

Published March 12, 2014