By Mei-Po Kwan, Douglas Richardson, Donggen Wang, Chenghu Zhou
Space-time research is a speedily becoming study frontier in geography, GIS, and GIScience. Advances in built-in GPS/GIS applied sciences, the provision of huge datasets (over time and space), and elevated ability to control, combine, version and visualize advanced info in (near) actual time, supply the GIS and geography groups impressive possibilities to start to combine refined space-time research and versions within the research of complicated environmental and social structures, from weather swap to infectious affliction transmission.
This quantity particularly makes a speciality of study frontiers, comparative learn, and learn and alertness interactions during this box within the US and China, arguably the 2 so much dynamic loci for this paintings this present day. The contributions to this publication, via best researchers in China and the U.S., productively spotlight the variations and similarities in methods and instructions for space-time research within the international locations. In gentle of the hot swift growth in GIScience learn on space-time integration in either nations, the book’s specialise in study frontiers in those international locations will allure nice curiosity in either nations and in different elements of the area in addition to between similar disciplines. additionally, the ebook additionally explores the effect of collaborative learn and guides underway during this region among the U.S. and China and may offer an outline of those collaborative efforts and programs.
This booklet won't in basic terms be of curiosity to university-based GIS researchers and scholars, but in addition to these drawn to this new region of study and functions like researchers and builders in enterprise, net mapping and GIS and site established companies (LBS).
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