Lecture: What is Geoinformatics?

Lecture: Vector Geometries and Topologies

• Max Egenhofer and Robert Franzosa, "Point-Set Topological Spatial Relations", International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 5 (2): 161-174, 1991.
• Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, Peter van Oosterom, "A small set of formal topological relationships suitable for end-user interaction". Advances in Spatial Databases, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 692:277-295, 1993.
• Anthony Cohn, Brandon Bennett, John Gooday, Nicholas Gotts,"Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning with the Region Connection Calculus". GeoInformatica, 1(3):275-316, 1997.
• Max Egenhofer, Jayant Sharma, David Mark, "A Critical Comparison of 4-intersection and 9-intersection models for spatial relations". In Autocarto 11, 1993.
• Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, A comparison of methods for representing topological relationships", Information Sciences, 3(3):149–178, 1995.

Assignment 1: An essay on “Topological Operations on 2D Space for Geographical Applications” (firm deadline: 21 April 2015 - 10h00)

Lecture: Geographical Objects

• Barry Smith and David Mark, "Do mountains exist? Towards an ontology of landforms". Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 30(3):411–427, 2003.
• Barry Smith, "On drawing lines on a map". Spatial Information Theory A Theoretical Basis for GIS. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1995. 475-484.
• Antony Galton, "On the ontological status of geographical boundaries". In Matt Duckham, Michael F. Goodchild and Michael F. Worboys (eds.), Foundations of Geographic Information Science, Taylor and Francis, 2003, pages 151-171.
• Edward Robinson, "Reexamining fiat, bona fide and force dynamic boundaries for geopolitical entities and their placement in DOLCE.". Applied Ontology 7.1 (2012): 93-108.

Assignment 2: An essay on “Ontology of Geographical Objects” (firm deadline: 04 May 2015 - 10h00)

Lecture: Fields

• Helen Couclelis, "People manipulate objects (but cultivate fields): Beyond the raster-vector debate in GIS". In: Frank, A., Campari, I., Formentini, U. (eds.) Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space. LNCS, vol. 639. Springer, 1992.
• C Dana Tomlin, "Map algebra: one perspective". Landscape and Urban Planning 30(1):3-12, 1994.
• Karen Kemp, "Fields as a framework for integrating GIS and environmental process models". Transactions in GIS 1(3):219–234, 1996.
• Gilberto Câmara, Ubirajara Freitas, Joao Cordeiro, Towards an Algebra for Geographical Fields. VII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Curitiba 1994.

Assignment 3: An essay on “Geographical Fields” (firm deadline: 13 May 2015 - 10h00)

Lecture: Combining Human and Natural Worlds

• Barry Smith and David Mark, Geographical categories: an ontological investigation. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 15(7)591-612, 2001.
• Andrew Frank, "Ontology for Spatio-temporal Databases". In Spatio-Temporal Databases: The Chorochronos Approach (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2520), edited by Manoulis Koubarakis and Timos Sellis, 9-78. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2003.
• Martin Herold, Curtis E Woodcock, Antonio Di Gregorio, Philippe Mayaux, Alan S Belward, John Latham, Christiane C Schmullius, A joint initiative for harmonization and validation of land cover datasets. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44(7):1719-1727, 2006.
• Louisa Jansen, Geoff Groom and Giancarlo Carrai, Land-cover harmonisation and semantic similarity: some methodological issues. Journal of Land Use Science, 3(2–3):131–160, 2008.

Assignment 4: An essay on “Geographical Ontologies” (firm deadline: 20 May 2015 - 10h00)

• Hornsby, Kathleen, and Max J. Egenhofer, "Identity-based change: a foundation for spatio-temporal knowledge representation". International Journal of Geographical Information Science 14.3 (2000): 207-224.
• Mike Worboys, Event-oriented approaches to geographic phenomena. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 19(1):1-28, 2005.
• Antony Galton, "Fields and Objects in Space, Time, and Space-time". Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4(1):39-68, 2004.
• Karine Ferreira, Gilberto Camara, Miguel Monteiro, "An algebra for spatiotemporal data: from observations to events". Transactions in GIS,18(2):253–269,2014.

Additional reading:

• Antony Galton & Riichiro Mizoguchi,"The Water Falls but the Waterfall does not Fall: New perspectives on Objects, Processes and Events". Applied Ontology, 4(2):71—107, 2009.
• Gilberto Camara, Max Egenhofer, Karine Ferreira, Pedro Andrade, Gilberto Queiroz, Alber Sanchez, Jim Jones, Lubia Vinhas, "Fields as a Generic Type for Big Spatial Data". GIScience 2014 Conference.

Assignment 5: An essay on “Geographical Ontologies” (firm deadline: 1 July 2015 - 10h00)

Lecture: Axiomatic Theory

• Mike Goodchild, May Yuan, & Tom Cova, "Towards a general theory of geographic representation in GIS". International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21(3), pp.239-260, 2007.
• Werner Kuhn, "Core concepts of spatial information for transdisciplinary research". International Journal of Geographic Information Science vol.26(12), 2012.