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Theme IV-6: Geographical
Information Systems (GIS) – Dr. Arwyn Jones (JRC-EI, EC)
Presentation abstracts
will appear here as soon as possible.
Over the past decade,
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become an increasingly
important research and development area and are crucial for a
number of activities of the Information Society. The major reason
for the success of GISs is that they offer more and new functionality
to map producers and map users in comparison with traditional
paper maps. They provide a powerful set of tools for monitoring,
acquiring, organising, storing, retrieving, transforming, analysing,
extracting of knowledge and displaying of available spatial multivariate
data. There are however some limitations to the success of the
GIS. They include:
- The lack of advanced
interfaces which will enable end-users to use the information
highway easily and efficiently;
- Standardisation
of database connections together with web facilities;
- Most GISs are 2D,
while the real world is 3D. What are the conceptual implications?
What are the needs?
The objectives of this
Session are to produce the state of the art presentation and to
identify the future directions for research and development in
the GIS, from the theoretical, development and practitioner points
of view. The Session aims to define guidelines for the best practice
in user interface development accounting for the new technologies
of the information revolution, to decipher the future trends in
GISs taking into account Web technology and to raise stimulating
discussion on future evolution in GIS systems and concepts when
using 3D data, including geometric and topological representations.
Submitted abstracts
include:
Gateway to the Earth-Transforming
Our Understanding of the Environment
Barbara J. Ryan, US Geological Survey
An Application of the
Turning-Bands-Simulation Method for the Modelling of Environmental
Data
Prof. Barbara Namyslowska-Wilczynska, Prof Arthur Wilczynski-University
of Technology, Poland
Remote Data Access
between 3D Geoscientific Visualization Tools and a Geo- Database
Kernal System
Martin Breunig and Serge Shumilov, University of Bonn
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