众源地理信息研究现状与展望

众源地理信息作为新型地理信息模式,是指由互联网用户借助交互式平台,通过直接上传传感器数据或提供数字化劳动而贡献的地理信息数据。近20年来,众源地理信息热度上升,并受到越来越多研究者的关注,正在逐渐成为一种重要的地理信息数据来源。本文对近十几年来关于众源地理信息的中文和英文文献进行了系统性的分析与研究,力图展现出众源地理信息研究的发展现状,同时以这些研究发现的规律为基础,结合当前的国际形势,探讨了众源地理信息的发展机遇与挑战,同时对发展自主众源地理信息给出了建议。     

Assessing Similarity of Geographic Processes and Events

The increased availability of spatiotemporal data collected from satellite imagery and other remote sensors provides opportunities for enhanced analysis of geographic phenomena. Much of the new data includes regular snapshots of the environment. Comparison of these snapshots can provide information about changes to the phenomena of interest. However, conventional GIS data models and analytical tools lack capabilities to adequately handle massive multidimensional data. One of the fundamental tools necessary to meet such challenges is query support to retrieve and summarize data according to dynamic geographic phenomena, such as geographic events and processes, of interest. Such query support depends upon abilities to assess spatiotemporal similarity so that data representing geographic events that exhibit the spatiotemporal characteristics of interest can be identified in a GIS database. To this end, this paper introduces a method to assess similarity of geographic events and processes (such as storms) based on their spatiotemporal characteristics (such as distribution of precipitation). We developed six indices to capture static and dynamic characteristics of geographic events and applied the Dynamic Time Warping method to temporal sequences of the six indices to examine the similarity among these events. With a case study, we demonstrated the proposed indices and method capable of comparing spatiotemporal characteristics of events as recorded in a GIS database and categorizing spatiotemporal data into groups of events according to their behavior in space and time.     

Understanding Design with VGI using an Information Relevance Framework

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has the potential to offer benefits to end‐users over and above those of Professional Geographic Information (PGI). A multi‐methods approach, consisting of participatory observation, focus groups and diary studies, was used to study how VGI and PGI were actually used by a target user group. A theoretical framework of information relevance was used to understand the attributes of information that were most important in relation to the characteristics of the users' activity and their community. The key finding was that the discussion amongst GIS designers should not be whether to choose VGI or PGI as the information data set, but to consider which combination of VGI and PGI relating to different geographic features and task characteristics would best meet the users' needs. VGI is likely to be most relevant to the user when a geographic feature is dynamic rather than static in nature, and can also provide a level of detail that is unlikely to arise through PGI. These findings have implications for how different forms of information are most effective for different usage situations. Above all, a case is presented for the implementation of User Centred Design (UCD) principles when integrating VGI and PGI together in a single mashup‐based product.     

Use of a Three-Domain Repesentation to Enhance GIS Support for Complex Spatiotemporal Queries

As the development of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) proceeds to advanced scientific and societal applications, there is an emerging need to enhance GIS support for complex spatiotemporal queries. Dynamic GIS representations (as opposed to static, map-based representations) that can integrate proper data elements in the production of geographic information are required. This paper demonstrates the use of a three-domain representation that facilitates compilation of higher-level information (such as frequency and rate) from preliminary data records (such as time and location) stored in a database. The three-domain representation is compared with snapshot, space-time composite, and spatiotemporal object models using a sample data set for forest transitions. While the three-domain representation is a normalization of these data models, it offers a conceptual alternative that enables GIS to represent spatiotemporal behaviors of geographic entities, in addition to entities as well as histories at locations as emphasized in most GIS data models. The comparison shows that the three-domain representation has combined the strengths of the space-time composite and spatiotemporal object models. Moreover, it enables aggregations of analytical use along with dynamic mappings between geographic concepts and locations, a distinct capability that takes GIS query processing beyond the level of information support offered by static map-based data models.     

实时GIS时空数据模型

为满足动态目标与传感器等实时观测数据获取、存储、管理、分析与可视化的要求,需要发展一种新型地理信息系统—实时GIS。本文根据实时GIS中各种地理要素的特点以及存贮管理要求,提出了一种面向动态地理对象与动态过程模拟的实时GIS时空数据模型,它将时空过程、地理对象、事件、事件类型、状态、观测等相关要素整合在一个时空数据模型中。基于该模型研发了新一代实时GIS,并以四种动态地理对象（包括移动对象、原位传感器对象、视频对象和过程模拟对象）的时空数据的实时接入、存储与可视化为例,验证的模型的可行性。     

Volunteered Geographic Information: A Bicycling Enthusiast Perspective

Mapping technologies have made considerable strides in recent decades. Global positioning systems (GPS), remote sensing satellites, Web-based mapping services, and geographic information systems (GIS) have facilitated the collection, distribution, analysis, and ultimately interaction with geospatial information. In particular, portable GPS have altered how individuals participate in mapping. Individuals can use GPS to collect tracings of their personal interactions with the environment. These interactions can then be uploaded to one of many available Web-based mapping services. Once uploaded, the geospatial data can be mapped and shared among the broader community of users. Such volunteered geographic information (VGI) exemplifies the conceptualization of an individual collecting, mapping, and sharing personal geographic information. This paper focuses on challenges surrounding VGI. To help place these challenges in a broader context, specialized Web services and GPS technologies developed for the bicycling community will serve as examples of the current status and future prospects of VGI.     

石景山区土地利用数据库的设计与实现

“数字国土”工程作为我国国家空间数据基础设施的一部分得到了长足的发展.本文对北京市石景山区土地利用数据库建设的过程进行系统的描述.基于ArcGIS平台、ArcSDE引擎,利用Geodatabase模型,结合GIS和RS技术,设计了土地利用分层及编码规则,最后将土地调查成果整合入库.实验表明,本文的土地利用数据库建设方法...     

Validity of historical volunteered geographic information: Evaluating citizen data for mapping historical geographic phenomena

Studies on volunteered geographic information (VGI) have focused on examining its validity to reveal geographic phenomena in relatively recent periods. Empirical evaluation of the validity of VGI to reveal geographic phenomena in historical periods (e.g., decades ago) is lacking, although such evaluation is desirable for assessing the possibility of broadening the temporal scope of VGI applications. This article presents an evaluation of the validity of VGI to reveal historical geographic phenomena through a citizen data‐based habitat suitability mapping case study. Citizen data (i.e., sightings) of the black‐and‐white snub‐nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) were elicited from local residents through three‐dimensional (3D) geovisualization interviews in Yunnan, China. The validity of the elicited sightings to reveal the historical R. bieti distribution was evaluated through habitat suitability mapping using the citizen data in historical periods. The results of controlled experiments demonstrated that suitability maps predicted using the historical citizen data had a consistent spatial pattern (correlation above 0.60) that reflects the R. bieti distribution (Boyce index around 0.90) in areas free of significant environmental change across historical periods. This in turn suggests that citizen data have validity for mapping historical geographic phenomena. It provides supporting empirical evidence for potentially broadening the temporal scope of VGI applications.     

关于地理信息系统未来发展的思考

在Geographic Information System（GIS）近60年的发展演进中,理论和技术都取得了长足的进步;应用领域扩大到社会的方方面面,社会影响力越来越大;体系结构、开发模式和服务模式等都发生了深刻的变化。为了推动GISystem进一步向前发展,在综述GIS中之“S”的三种含义即System（系统）、Science（科学）和Service（服务）以及GIS近60年来取得的丰硕成果的基础上,重点就以下三个问题进行了讨论:（1）如何认识地理信息系统（GISystem）。首先解析地理信息系统的三个关键词（系统、信息、地理信息）,据此论述了地理信息系统的内涵,分析了地理信息系统同地图、计算机地图制图、地图数据库的关系,认为地理信息系统源于又超越了地图、计算机地图制图和地图数据库,并认为地理信息系统具有装备的特性。（2）地理信息系统是怎样发展演进的。重点分析了由“地理信息系统”到“地理信息服务”的发展演进的社会需求背景、技术背景、学科背景,从应用领域、数据资源和功能的扩展及体系结构、开发模式和服务模式等方面,分析了地理信息系统发展演进的主要表现。（3）地理信息系统的未来发展将走向何方。首先,讨论了正确理解地理信息系统应用领域扩展的问题,认为应用领域的扩展不可能是“无边无际”的;地理信息系统的未来发展必须面向国家经济建设和国防建设急需;在分析比较现有三种GISystem服务模式的基础上,认为采用“网格集成”与“弹性云”的“混合式”技术体制是GISystem服务模式的最佳选择;提出了基于“网格集成”与“弹性云”的“混合式”的时空大数据平台技术实现必须解决的6个关键技术问题和“时空大数据平台”的应用模式。     

网络众筹和用户自助相结合的新型地理信息共享应用平台研发

针对常规GIS应用系统存在阻碍地理信息进一步社会化共享应用的问题,本文提出并研发了一套网络众筹和用户自助相结合的新型地理信息共享应用平台。该平台结合互联网开放性与参与性的特点,借助网络众筹等思想,通过管理激励机制,让网络中地理信息供需双方精准对接与众筹互助。同时通过组合搭建方式,让地理信息需求方在获取地理信息资源后对其进行自助式组合应用。应用实践表明,该平台具备常规GIS无法比拟的诸多优点,能降低地理信息共享应用的专业门槛,促进地理信息跨部门、跨地区的社会化共享应用。     

Cesium框架多源电子地图瓦片数据混搭方案设计

针对现有的商业地理信息系统平台难以灵活整合多源影像数据融合使用的问题,深入研究Cesium平台下多种数据源的空间参考差异和瓦片组织规则,针对不同空间参考的瓦片数据源进行混搭设计,提出基于Cesium的多源本地瓦片数据静态和动态加载方案。实验结果表明,单一瓦片数据源加载方案、静态和动态多源瓦片混搭方案的展示效果较好;静态瓦片混搭方案在加载不同空间参考瓦片数据时容易造成变形;动态多源、多空间参考瓦片混搭方案能有效克服变形问题且展示效果佳。本文实现了在开源GIS平台下的多源影像数据的融合使用,为地理信息系统与遥感类项目应用提供了一个低成本、高灵活性的解决方案,具有较为明显的实际应用价值。     

An Event‐driven Spatiotemporal Data Model (E‐ST) Supporting Dynamic Expression and Simulation of Geographic Processes

The wide use of various sensors makes real‐time data acquisition possible. A new spatiotemporal data model, the Event‐driven Spatiotemporal Data Model (E‐ST), is proposed to dynamically express and simulate the spatiotemporal processes of geographic phenomena. In E‐ST, a sensor object is introduced into the model as a flexible real‐time data source. An event type that is generating and driving conditions is registered into a geographic object, so an event can not only express spatiotemporal change in a geographic object, but also drive spatiotemporal change in some geographic objects. As a dynamic GIS data model, the E‐ST has five characteristics – Temporality and Spatiality, Real‐time, Extendability, Causality, and Realizability. Described and realized in UML, a test‐case deployment demonstrating the impact of urban waterlogging on traffic confirms that a spatiotemporal change process in a geographic phenomena is expressed and simulated by this model. Summarizing this work, four directions for future research are outlined.     

面向灾害管理的自发地理信息研究及应用

针对目前自发地理信息(VGI)应用于灾害管理的巨大潜力和需求,该文系统地介绍了VGI应用于灾害管理中所面临的机遇及数据可用性、数据质量、数据管理和法律议题等方面的挑战;在此基础上,针对VGI数据质量问题,结合我国灾害管理实际情况,提出了3种提高VGI数据质量的方法,即VGI数据贡献者分类与权限设计、政府引导下的灾害管理VGI数据采集框架以及VGI数据质量评估体系;最后,以开发的地震灾情信息管理原型系统为例,讨论VGI应用于灾害管理中的数据采集框架、数据模型等关键技术问题,具有一定的推广和应用价值。     

用路途全景图增强地理信息系统的可视性

介绍了用路途全景图（Route panorama）组成道路网并融入地理信息系统的研究成果.为提供比道路地图更为详尽的景观信息,本文用路途全景图建立了一个可漫步的虚拟城市.路途全景图具有数据量小,形式连续,街道覆盖完全,高效采集和易于扩充等特色,可作为一个沿街建筑物和设施的图像索引.研究了获取街道景观的扫描系统,对一市区街道进行完全扫描,并对路途全景图进行信息检索.与利用3维图形建立城市模型相比,路途全景图能在因特网上实时传送,并在大区域内作连续的可视导航.其结果可应用于虚拟旅行、城市导引、历史研究、古迹保护、风土和生活方式记录以及灾害应急控制等.     

空间信息服务时态数据的管理与应用

本文面向当前空间信息应用的实际需求,以传统GIS为基础,研究建立实用的、易于实现的集矢量与栅格数据为一体的时空数据模型,增加GIS对时态属性的管理和操作。本文研究解决了时态拓扑构建的关键技术,采用面向对象方法开发了一套时态空间数据库管理系统,实现了时空数据的采集、存储、查询和显示,并以中国多个历史时期的行政界线为基础数据,进行了时空数据模型的应用研究,为TGIS发展探索了一条实用的技术路线。     

CAD数据到EPS数据的转换实践

随着地理信息技术的发展及实际应用需求的不断扩大,GIS软件也得到了空前的发展,越来越多的单位和个人开始关注GIS数据的生产、应用和共享。EPS2008地理信息工作站是清华山维公司推出的一款优秀的GIS软件产品,EPS平台综合了CAD技术与GIS技术,实现从数字图到信息化的转变。本文主要从数据转换的角度出发,通过对CAD数据和EPS数据结构进行深入分析、研究的基础上,论证了基于清华山维EPS地理信息平台软件跨平台转换的可行性、技术方法和工作准备,并通过实际案例,讨论了采用该方法实施数据转换的效果及特点。     

面向地理信息企业的时空大数据服务平台设计与实现

针对地理信息企业内部拥有的地理信息资源呈爆炸式增长态势,以及公有云在地理信息企业推广中面临的安全性与可靠性问题,本文设计了一个采用混合云模式搭建基于Hadoop技术的时空大数据服务平台的方案,并依据方案建设了集数据存储、管理、共享和分发利用的图、属一体化空间数据管理平台,为企业不同场景提供服务。     

Applying VGI to collaborative research in the humanities: the case of ARTL@S

ABSTRACT

Using Artl@s as an example of a project that relies on volunteered geographic information (VGI), this article examines the specific challenges that exist, beyond those frequently discussed in general VGI systems (e.g., participants’ motivation and data quality control) in regard to sharing research data in humanities: (1) most data from the humanities is qualitative and collected from multiple data sources which are often inconsistent and unmappable; (2) data is usually interconnected with multiple relationships among different tables which creates challenges for both mapping and query functionality; (3) data is both geographical and historical. Consequently addresses that no longer exist have to be geolocated and visualized on historical basemaps and spaces must be represented diachronically; (4) the design of web map application needs to balance both sophisticated research requirements and a user-friendly interface; (5) finally contributors expect their data to be cited or acknowledged when used in other studies and users need metadata and citation information in order to reuse and repurpose datasets.

In this article, we discuss how Artl@s, a project which developed a georeferenced historical database of exhibition catalogues, addresses these challenges. Artl@s provides a case study for VGI adoption by digital humanities scholars for research data sharing, as it offers features, such as flexible batch data contribution, interrelated spatial query, automatic geolocalization of historical addresses, and data citation mechanisms.     

Setting Wildfire Evacuation Trigger Points Using Fire Spread Modeling and GIS

Warning communities in the path of an advancing wildfire is a challenging problem. Decision makers need the most current information available to determine who should evacuate, when they should leave and what type of order to issue (e.g. mandatory, recommended, voluntary). This paper presents a new method for delimiting wildfire evacuation trigger points using fire spread modeling and GIS. Using data on wind, topography, and fuel in conjunction with estimated evacuation time, a trigger buffer can be computed for a community whereby an evacuation is recommended if a fire crosses the edge of the buffer. A case study is presented for the Corral Canyon section of the 1996 Calabasas Fire near Malibu, California, USA. The paper concludes with a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.