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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.

Lecture: Geographical Objects

• Barry Smith and David Mark, "Ontology and Geographic Kinds". International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH'98), Vancouver, Canada, 1998.
• 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.

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.
• Karen Kemp, "Fields as a framework for integrating GIS and environmental process models". Transactions in GIS 1(3):219–234, 1996.
• C Dana Tomlin, "Map algebra: one perspective". Landscape and Urban Planning 30(1):3-12, 1994.
• 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.

Lecture: Combining Human and Natural Worlds

• 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.
• Andrew Frank, "Tiers of ontology and consistency constraints in geographical information systems". International Journal of Geographical Information Science 15(7):667-678, 2001.
• Fred Fonseca, Max Egenhofer, Peggy Agouris, and Gilberto Camara, G. (2002). "Using ontologies for integrated geographic information systems". Transactions in GIS, 6(3), 231-257, 2002.

• Antony Galton, "Fields and Objects in Space, Time, and Space-time". Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4(1):39-68, 2004.
• Mike Worboys, Event-oriented approaches to geographic phenomena. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 19(1):1-28, 2005.
• 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.
• Karine Ferreira, Gilberto Camara, Miguel Monteiro, "An algebra for spatiotemporal data: from observations to events"Transactions in GIS,18(2):253–269,2014.

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.