This handbook includes separate sections on Basics and Applications, offering the reader a comprehensive view on Geographic Information. For ideal thematic separation the Basics are split into the sections Computer Science and Geoinformatics.

Computer science has changed the shape of Geographic Information. In addition, fast and mobile Internet access as well as a comprehensive standardization of the data exchange has opened the door to many new applications in the area, such as location based services which link mobile devices with spatial and temporal data. The most advanced concept is called Ubiquitous GIS which handles a great number of position-coded mobile objects such as containers within one system. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Geographic Information, detailing both the basics of the subject as well as specific applications. Coverage of the basics is organized in two sections: computer science and geoinformatics.

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Wolfgang Kresse

Wolfgang Kresse is a Professor for Geographic Information Systems and Photogrammetry at the University of Applied Sciences in Neubrandenburg, Germany. As a visiting professor he was affiliated to the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing in Ottawa (2002/2003) and to the University of Maine, USA (2008/2009). Formerly, he worked as a software developer and customer trainer for Carl Zeiss Company with focus on graphics, photogrammetry, and data exchange. Wolfgang Kresse is the leading author of the book ISO Standards for Geographic Information published by Springer.

He is the project leader of the ISO 19159, Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors and data, in the ISO/TC 211, Geographic information / Geomatics. He has been involved in the development of ISO 19130, Imagery sensor models for geopositioning, and in standardization activities of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) as well asin the German Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Wolfgang Kresse holds a Diploma Degree in Geodesy and a Doctor-Degree in Digital Cartography, both of the University of Bonn, Germany.

David Danko

David Danko is a Senior Consultant for GIS standards. In this capacity he ensures that ESRI software and services are interoperable and comply with the appropriate national, international, and industry standards. He represents ESRI on the OGC Planning Committ ee, ISO TC 211 and INCITS-L1. As a senior consultant for GIS Standards, Mr. Danko has provided workshops on standards, metadata, and spatial data infrastructures in the United States, Japan, South Africa, Italy, Chile, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Central America, and China and has participated in an advisory role in several regional and national spatial data infrastructures. As a physical scientistsenior standards manager with DMA, he was responsible for developing and managing agencypolicies and programs to ensure standardization and interoperability between DMA imagery and geospatial systems, U.S. DoD agencies, U.S. civilian agencies, and the military and civilian geospatial information communities of other nations. He previously served as Project Manager for an international research and development initiative that resulted in the development of the vector product format (VPF) military standard and the digital chart of the World (DCW); the DCW was the first in a new series of digital vector products on CDROM. Earlier in his career he worked in the areas of remote sensing, analytical triangulation, imagery data extraction and cartographic production.

In his ISO Standardization activities he has been Project Leader in the Technical Committee (TC) 211ISO 19115 Metadata Revision (2009present), Chair of the Metadata Working Group in the Open GIS Consortium (2001present), and a Technical and Planning Committee Representative in the Open GIS Consortium (2001 present).

Inhalt

Part A Basics and Computer Science
Modeling of Geographic Information.- Mathematics and Geostatistics.- Databases.- Encoding of Geographic Information.- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Part B Geographic Information
Geographic Information Systems (GIS).- Change Detection.- Geodesy.- Data Capture and Geosensor Networks.- Geometry, Topology and Graph Theory.- Portrayal and Cartography.- Geospatial Metadata.-Standards for Geographic Information.- Web Mapping and Web Cartography.- Geospatial Semantic Web.- Registration of Geospatial Information Elements.- Security for Geospatial Information Systems
Part C Applications
Ubiquitous Geographic Information.- Legal, Law, Cadastre.- Spatial Planning.- Location Based Services.- Movement Analysis in Spatio-Temporal Data.- Marine Geographic Information Systems.- GIS in Agriculture.- GIS in Defense.- GIS for Transportation.- GIS in Geology.- GIS in Energy and Utilities.- GIS in Health and Human Services.- Open Source GIS.- Open Source Tools for Environmental Modeling

Glossary of ISO Terms.- Acknowledgements.- About the Authors.- Subject Index.