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- What is Geoinformatics? General definitions. Linking computer representations to geographical data. General examples. | - What is Geoinformatics? General definitions. Linking computer representations to geographical data. General examples. | ||
+ | - Geometries for representing the social world: points, lines and polygons. Topological relations. | ||
- Representing the world: putting the Earth into a computer. Location as a key property of the world. | - Representing the world: putting the Earth into a computer. Location as a key property of the world. | ||
- Representing the social world, part I: generation geographical reality with our laws and social arrangements. The role of boundaries. Creating (fiat) objects. The need for maintaining identity of objects of the social world. | - Representing the social world, part I: generation geographical reality with our laws and social arrangements. The role of boundaries. Creating (fiat) objects. The need for maintaining identity of objects of the social world. | ||
- | - Geometries for representing the social world: points, lines and polygons. Topological relations. | ||
- Describing the natural world, part I: assigning names, identities and (bona fide) boundaries to places and features of the world and to living beings. The inherent ambiguity of "places". | - Describing the natural world, part I: assigning names, identities and (bona fide) boundaries to places and features of the world and to living beings. The inherent ambiguity of "places". | ||
- Describing the natural world, part 2: measuring properties of the world as continuous distributions. Fields as a general data type for measuring the world. | - Describing the natural world, part 2: measuring properties of the world as continuous distributions. Fields as a general data type for measuring the world. | ||
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- | ===== Main references ===== | + | ===== Classes ===== |
- | + | * [[intro-geoinfo-classes2015 | Classes Summer Semester 2015]] | |
- | * Werner Kuhn, [[http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/~kuhn/IJGIS%202012.pdf|"Core concepts of spatial information for transdisciplinary research"]]. International Journal of Geographic Information Science vol.26(12), 2012. | + | * [[intro-geoinfo-classes2016 | Classes Summer Semester 2016]] |
- | * Andrew Frank,[[http://www.spatial.cs.umn.edu/Courses/Fall11/8715/papers/STD12_chrono.pdf| "Ontology for Spatio-temporal Databases"]]. In Spatio-Temporal Databases: The Chorochronos Approach (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2520), edited by Manoulis Koubarakis and Timos Sellis, 9-78. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2003. | + | |
- | * Antony Galton & Riichiro Mizoguchi,[[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness/galtonmizoguchi-v4.pdf|"The Water Falls but the Waterfall does not Fall : New perspectives on Objects , Processes and Events"]]. Applied Ontology, 4(2):71—107, 2009. | + | |
- | * Karine Ferreira, Gilberto Camara, Miguel Monteiro, [[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/papers/stalgebra_tgis.pdf|"An algebra for spatiotemporal data: from observations to events"]]Transactions in GIS,18(2):253–269,2014. | + | |
- | * Gilberto Camara, Max Egenhofer, Karine Ferreira, Pedro Andrade, Gilberto Queiroz, Alber Sanchez, Jim Jones, Lubia Vinhas,[[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/papers/camara_fields_giscience2014.pdf|"Fields as a Generic Type for Big Spatial Data"]]GIScience 2014 Conference. | + | |
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- | ===== Additional references ===== | + | |
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- | * Mike Goodchild, May Yuan, & Tom Cova, [[http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~good/papers/433.pdf|Towards a general theory of geographic representation in GIS]]. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21(3), pp.239-260, 2007. | + | |
- | * Mike Worboys, [[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/references/worboys_ijgis2003event.pdf|Event-oriented approaches to geographic phenomena]]. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 19(1): 1-28, 2005. | + | |
- | * Helen Couclelis, [[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/references/couclelis_1992_objects_fields|"People manipulate objects (but cultivate fields): Beyond the raster-vector debate in GIS"]]. In: Frank, A., Campari, I., Formentini, U. (eds.) Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space. LNCS, vol. 639. Springer, 1992. | + | |
- | * Roberto Casati, Barry Smith, Achille C. Varzi [[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fois(csv).pdf|"Ontological Tools for Geographic Representation"]]. From: N. Guarino (ed.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 1998, pp. 77–85. | + | |
- | * Barry Smith, Achille C. Varzi [[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiatvs.pdf|Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries]]. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 60: 2 (March 2000), 401–420. | + | |
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- | ===== Course 2014 ===== | + | |
- | * [[intro-geoinfo-classes2014 | Classes 2014]] | + |