Books in the Innovations in GIS series

This is the ninth book in the Innovations in GIS series, based on contributions at the 2001 GIS Research UK conference, which continues to include innovative papers that are at the cutting edge of GIS research in the UK.

Highlights innovations related to sources of data, developments in analytical techniques, and involvement in public communication and participative processes. This book provides an overview of the use of GIS. It includes numerous examples of GIS in different countries.

Contains revised and updated versions of contributions to the first scientific symposium on research in geographic information systems GISRUK. It provides details on the range and diversity of research programmes in the science of GIS covering

Consisting primarily of papers presented at the GIS Research UK Conference held at the University of Glasgow, this book provides a contemporary overview of the representation, processing, visualization, and update of dynamic spatio-temporal events using the GIS environment.

With the widespread use of PDAs, wireless internet, Internet-based GIS, and 3G and 4G telecommunications, the technology supporting mobile GIS is rapidly gaining popularity and effectiveness. Dynamic and Mobile GIS: Investigating Changes in Space and Time addresses Web GIS, mobile GIS, and the modeling, processing, and representation of dynamic events, as well as current demands to update GIS representations.Providing a comprehensive overview of this emerging technology, this book highlights innovations, new ways of modeling both spatial objects and dynamic processes affecting them, and advances in visualization. Featuring contributions from established GIS workers, it begins with an introduction of extant technology and previews future developments. The book examines challenges to security and privacy and presents practical solutions to these problems while focusing on modeling approaches and exploring the need to display an appropriate level of information in a mobile environment. Concluding with a study of mobility, the book also contains practical examples of applications of mobile devices for disaster management and environmental monitoring. Dynamic and Mobile GIS: Investigating Changes in Space and Time offers detailed cases of successful applications and identifies the current cutting-edge aspects of mobile and dynamic GIS. The book also looks to the future, investigating important research directions and potential challenges.

Focusing on the application of GIS technologies within the context of the natural environment, and identifying particular analytical challenges, this book illustrates the broader opportunities available when applying GIS to other areas of the sciences and social sciences. The contributions explore the key themes of representation, modeling,

With contributions from well-known experts in GIS technology, this book clearly illustrates how the use of GIS can make significant contributions to trans-disciplinary initiatives to address environmental problems. The book takes an interdisciplinary look at the capacities of GIS to integrate, analyze, and display data on which decisions must be