GeoInformatics.cc

Lecture: What is Geoinformatics?

Lecture: Topologies and QSR

• Max Egenhofer and Robert Franzosa, "Point-Set Topological Spatial Relations", International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 5 (2): 161-174, 1991.
• Max Egenhofer and John Herring, "Categorizing Binary Topological Relations Between Regions,Lines, and Points in Geographic Databases", NCGIA Report, 1994.
• 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.
• 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: 15 August 2016 - 12h00)

Lecture: Geographical Objects

Suggested Reading:

• Barry Smith and David Mark, Ontology and geographic kinds. Proceedings, International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Vancouver, Canada, 1998.
• Barry Smith and David Mark, Geographical categories: an ontological investigation. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 15(7)591-612, 2001.
• 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.
• 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: 29 August 2016 - 12h00)

Lecture: Fields

Suggested Reading:

• 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.
• Karen Kemp, "Fields as a framework for integrating GIS and environmental process models". Transactions in GIS 1(3):219–234, 1996.
• Karine Ferreira, Gilberto Camara, Miguel Monteiro, "An algebra for spatiotemporal data: from observations to events". Transactions in GIS,18(2):253–269,2014.
• 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 3: An essay on “Geographical Fields” (firm deadline: 12 Sept 2016- 12h00)

Lecture: Describing change in geographical spaces

Suggested reading:

• 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.
• Peter Hacker, "Events and objects in space and time". Mind 91.361 (1982): 1-19.
• Gilberto Camara, "Geographical ontologies for land use and land cover change: distinguishing continuants from occurents". Formal Ontologies and Information Systems Conference (FOIS) 2016. Annecy, France, July 2016.

Assignment 4: An essay on “Space and time in GIS” (firm deadline: 19 Sep 2016 - 12h00)

Lecture: A Theory of Geospatial Ontologies

Suggested reading:

• Werner Kuhn, "Core concepts of spatial information for transdisciplinary research". International Journal of Geographic Information Science vol.26(12), 2012.
• 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.
• 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.

Assignment 5: An essay on “Core Concepts of Geoinformatics” (firm deadline: 26 Sep 2016 - midnight)