Geographical information systems and the problem of'error and uncertainty'

DJ Unwin - Progress in Human Geography, 1995 - journals.sagepub.com
Consider the following superficially simple problem that might be solved using a geographical
information system (GIS). In medical geography we wish to find the rate of incidence of a …

Reflections and speculations on the progress in Geographic Information Systems (GIS): a geographic perspective

G Lü, M Batty, J Strobl, H Lin, AX Zhu… - … journal of geographical …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
system designed to handle geographic, spatial or geospatial data for spatiotemporal use
and geographic … In this article, we use the acronym GIS regarding systems and technologies …

Fuzzy representation of geographical boundaries in GIS

F Wang, GB Hall - … journal of geographical information systems, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
… Specifically, in the context of vector-based GIS, use of sharp lines to represent gradual or
partial changes may cause misunderstanding of geographical information and reduce analysis …

Use of an expert system to map forest soils from a geographical information system

AK Skidmore, PJ Ryan, W Dawes, D Short… - … of Geographical …, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
Mapping forest soils using conventional methods is time consuming and expensive. An expert
system is described and applied to the mapping of five forest soil-landscape units formed …

Management of wildfires with a geographical information system

YH Chou - … Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 1992 - Taylor & Francis
… oaks and conifer forests--coded into 24 species. The delimitation of vegetation polygons
within … the three layers and reclassifying the 24 species into eight major categories adapted to …

Spatial perspectives on urban systems: developments and directions

A Páez - Journal of Geographical Systems, 2007 - Springer
… observed in complex human systems. As recent reviews indicate, the geographical interest
in urban systems remains as vibrant as ever, with extensive use of GIS for urban research (…

Volunteered geographic information research in the first decade: a narrative review of selected journal articles in GIScience

Y Yan, CC Feng, W Huang, H Fan… - … of Geographical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… related articles retrieved from 24 international refereed journals in the GIScience community
journals for this review and the number of articles retrieved from the respective journals. The …

The citation relationships between journals of geography and cognate disciplines

SW Laffan - Geographical Research, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… of physical geography are smaller than those of human geography, … geography journals
is a small net export from physical geography to human geography, but their total trade volume

30 years of IJGIS: the changing landscape of geographical information science and the road ahead

M Yuan - International Journal of Geographical Information …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… These forward-looking papers are among the top 10 downloaded IJGIS papers in each
volume from 2010 (vol. 24) to 2016 (vol. 30). A further analysis of the top 10 downloaded papers …

Towards a general theory of geographic representation in GIS

MF Goodchild, M Yuan, TJ Cova - … journal of geographical …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
geographic world is complex, but it does not follow that the rules that are built into our systems
and used to represent the geographic … blocks for geographic representation would give …