Geographic information science in the era of geospatial big data: A cyberspace perspective

Xintao Liu¹, Min Chen^{2

3}, Christophe Claramunt⁴, Michael Batty⁵, Mei-Po Kwan⁶, Ahmad M Senousi⁷, Tao Cheng⁸, Josef Strobl⁹, Cöltekin Arzu¹⁰, John Wilson¹¹, Temenoujka Bandrova¹², Milan Konecny^{2

13}, Paul M Torrens¹⁴, Fengyuan Zhang¹, Li He¹⁵, Jinfeng Wang¹⁶, Carlo Ratti¹⁷, Olaf Kolditz¹⁸, Alexander Klippel¹⁹, Songnian Li²⁰, Hui Lin²¹, Guonian Lü^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, Kowloon, China.
² Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Ministry of Education of PRC), Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
³ Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China.
⁴ The French Naval Academy Research Institute, 29240 Lanveoc-Poulmic, France.
⁵ The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London (UCL), WC1E 6BT London, UK.
⁶ Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Shatin 999077, China.
⁷ Department of Civil Engineering, Cairo University, 12613 Cairo, Egypt.
⁸ SpaceTimeLab, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London (UCL), WC1E 6BT London, UK.
⁹ Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria.
¹⁰ Institute of Interactive Technologies (IIT), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland.
¹¹ Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA.
¹² Laboratory on Cartography, Department of Photogrammetry and Cartography, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria.
¹³ Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography, Department of Geography, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Česká Republika.
¹⁴ Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School & Center for Urban Science + Progress, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA.
¹⁵ School of Humanities and Social Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
¹⁶ Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
¹⁷ Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
¹⁸ Centre for Environmental Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
¹⁹ Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen 6708, the Netherlands.
²⁰ Department of Civil Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada.
²¹ School of Geography and Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China.

PMID: 35967836
PMCID: PMC9364050
DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100279

Geographic information science in the era of geospatial big data: A cyberspace perspective

Xintao Liu et al. Innovation (Camb). 2022.

. 2022 Jul 6;3(5):100279.

doi: 10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100279. eCollection 2022 Sep 13.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, Kowloon, China.
² Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Ministry of Education of PRC), Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
³ Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China.
⁴ The French Naval Academy Research Institute, 29240 Lanveoc-Poulmic, France.
⁵ The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London (UCL), WC1E 6BT London, UK.
⁶ Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Shatin 999077, China.
⁷ Department of Civil Engineering, Cairo University, 12613 Cairo, Egypt.
⁸ SpaceTimeLab, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London (UCL), WC1E 6BT London, UK.
⁹ Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria.
¹⁰ Institute of Interactive Technologies (IIT), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland.
¹¹ Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA.
¹² Laboratory on Cartography, Department of Photogrammetry and Cartography, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria.
¹³ Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography, Department of Geography, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Česká Republika.
¹⁴ Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School & Center for Urban Science + Progress, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA.
¹⁵ School of Humanities and Social Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
¹⁶ Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
¹⁷ Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
¹⁸ Centre for Environmental Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
¹⁹ Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen 6708, the Netherlands.
²⁰ Department of Civil Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada.
²¹ School of Geography and Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China.

PMID: 35967836
PMCID: PMC9364050
DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100279

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The conceptual view of GIScience from the perspectives of geospatial big data and cyberspace

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