An IEEE value loop of human-technology collaboration in geospatial information science

ABSTRACT

Geosensing and social sensing as two digitalization mainstreams in big data era are increasingly converging toward an integrated system for the creation of semantically enriched digital Earth. Along with the rapid developments of AI technologies, this convergence has inevitably brought about a number of transformations. On the one hand, value-adding chains from raw data to products and services are becoming value-adding loops composed of four successive stages – Informing, Enabling, Engaging and Empowering (IEEE). Each stage is a dynamic loop for itself. On the other hand, the “human versus technology” relationship is upgraded toward a game-changing “human and technology” collaboration. The information loop is essentially shaped by the omnipresent reciprocity between humans and technologies as equal partners, co-learners and co-creators of new values.

The paper gives an analytical review on the mutually changing roles and responsibilities of humans and technologies in the individual stages of the IEEE loop, with the aim to promote a holistic understanding of the state of the art of geospatial information science. Meanwhile, the author elicits a number of challenges facing the interwoven human-technology collaboration. The transformation to a growth mind-set may take time to realize and consolidate. Research works on large-scale semantic data integration are just in the beginning. User experiences of geovisual analytic approaches are far from being systematically studied. Finally, the ethical concerns for the handling of semantically enriched digital Earth cover not only the sensitive issues related to privacy violation, copyright infringement, abuse, etc. but also the questions of how to make technologies as controllable and understandable as possible for humans and how to keep the technological ethos within its constructive sphere of societal influence.     

中国古代地图的数学基础与地理空间维度认知

从几个典型的中国古地图的数学基础出发,结合相关的数学方法,探讨了中国古人在地理空间维度认知方面走过的历程。认为,当中国古代地图发展到以"计里画方"进行地图绘制时,已经实现了3维地理空间的科学认知。这也是"计里画方"的制图方法可以持续1 000多年的理论依据。     

道路网示意性地图的渐进式综合研究

研究并总结了示意性道路网地图的制图规则,量化了约束条件,提出了一种道路网渐进式图形简化方法和移位方法,并研究了拓扑关系检查方法。在具体实验中,通过对道路网上点的分类,依据约束条件,快速生成有效的道路网示意性地图,同时保证了原始道路图与示意性道路图之间的拓扑关系一致性。     

Vague cognitive regions in geography and geographic information science

Cognitive regions are regions in the mind, reflecting informal ways individuals and cultural groups organize their understanding of earth landscapes. Cognitive region boundaries are typically substantially vague and their membership functions are substantially variable – the transition from outside to inside the region is imprecise or vague, and different places within the region are not equally strong or clear as exemplars of the region. Methods for assessing and cartographically depicting cognitive regions, as with other vague geographic regions, have traditionally implied an inappropriate level of boundary sharpness and membership uniformity, such as when boundaries are mapped as precise lines. Research in recent decades has explored methods for assessing and depicting boundary vagueness and membership variability, either within or across individuals, but has still assumed homogeneity and regularity in the vagueness and variability. In this article, we present two studies that assess the cognitive regions of ‘Northern’ and ‘Southern’ California, and, for comparison, ‘Northern’ and ‘Southern’ Alberta. The first study uses a standard boundary-drawing task; the second uses a novel task in which participants rate cells of a high-resolution grid laid over an outline map. This technique allows us to assess and depict vagueness and nonuniformity that is heterogeneous and irregular across different areas. Differences in the conceptualization of ‘Northern’ and ‘Southern’ regions in California, as compared to those in Alberta, point to thematic influences on cognitive regions in California but not in Alberta. As is often true with cognitive regions, Northern and Southern California are about attitude, not just latitude.     

基于网络文本的廊道型旅游地意象研究——以皖南“川藏线”为例

旅游地意象是旅游地理学的重要研究主题,旅游者具身化意象认知结果对旅游地行为忠诚、满意度及旅游资源开发至关重要。借助蕴含旅游者记忆与叙事信息的网络游记文本及图片位置数据,采用质性与GIS分析相结合的方法,建构廊道型旅游地意象。研究发现：1）廊道型旅游地意象由线性意象、色彩意象、地方意象、审美意象和情感意象五维类属建构而成。2）皖南“川藏线”旅游者在场体验过程中的情感评价积极情感占主导地位,消极情感占比相对较少,其中高度积极情感所占比例显著高于高度消极情感。3）旅游者皖南“川藏线”意象要素感知特征呈现动静结合、线性体验与感知兼具两个层级。其中,动静特征通过静态景观与动态体验共同展现,线性体验更多强调旅游者产生的刺激、惊险、震撼的驾驶乐趣及情感升华。4）皖南“川藏线”线性意象热点集中于桃岭公路及六道湾周边,色彩意象热点集中于储家滩和红杉林两地,审美意象热点集中于储家滩、青龙湖、红杉林沿线,地方意象热点集中于储家滩、桃岭公路和水墨汀溪一带。     

地理信息共享的理论研究框架

在分析人类认识自然界过程的基础上,建立了地理信息共享的理论研究框架,将支撑地理信息共享的理论划分成以空间认知理论和信息传输理论、空间概念研究、地理数据模型研究和地理信息标准化研究为主要研究内容的三层次结构,并对各理论基础进行了详细阐述.     

图像蒙版的三维场景专题信息表达

本文提出利用图像蒙版技术表现场景专题信息:通过将重要的场景专题信息以单一图像的形式罩于地形表面,形成地形"蒙版",使用户只关注蒙版即可获取所需信息,用户可以在最短时间内形成对场景专题信息的总体把握与正确认识。这种方法在一定程度上提高了用户对场景的认知效率与深度。     

基于自然语言路径描述的地图空间认知研究

路径描述是日常生活中常见的地理空间信息应用方式,涉及到自然语言与地图语言的表达及转换关系。本文采用认知实验的方法,对自然语言的路径描述及其认知过程进行分析,研究了路径认知与表达上所涉及的空间关系,总结了利用自然语言表达地图空间信息的规律和习惯用法。     

Defining Appalachia: Public Policy and Regional Dynamics in Appalachia's Low-income Counties, 1965-2000

Abstract

The extant literature on place location learning resolves in varying degrees that place location knowledge (PLK) is deficient in the United States and abroad. This is particularly true for younger school-attending age groups. This study has three main aims: to investigate the validity of that claim in regard to secondary-level students in Dublin by testing their PLK; to assess what characteristics of tested place locations render some sites more visible in students' eyes than others; and to investigate statistically what traits of the respondents shape their PLK. The implications of these findings on geographic education and future research are also discussed.     

面向军事指挥人员空间认知规律的虚拟地理环境设计研究

虚拟地理环境提供了空间认知的新工具。虚拟地理环境的设计是一种创造性的思维过程,离不开人脑的参与。可以说,一个虚拟地理环境系统就是一个认知模型,不同的目的、不同的专题、不同的视角得到不同的模型。对于虚拟地理环境,人们更多的是关注技术,而忽略设计。把一般原理同具体特点结合起来,才能设计出既符合一般规则,又具有不同个性的虚拟地理环境系统。军事指挥人员是一个特殊的群体,本文分析了该群体的特点和地理空间认知过程,提出了面向中高级军事指挥人员的虚拟地理环境设计思路。