IT roadmap to a geospatial future

Cover......Page 1
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgment of Reviewers......Page 12
Contents......Page 14
Executive Summary......Page 18
WHY RESEARCH IS NEEDED NOW......Page 19
Research at the Intersection of Information Technology and Geospatial Science......Page 20
Accessible Location- Sensing Infrastructure......Page 21
Mobile Environments......Page 22
Geospatial Ontologies......Page 23
Geospatial Interaction Technologies......Page 24
Geospatial for Everyone, Everywhere......Page 25
MOVING FORWARD......Page 26
VOYAGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY......Page 27
SCENARIOS......Page 31
Just- in- Time Mapping......Page 32
Controlling Wildfires......Page 33
Digital Earth......Page 35
WHY NOW?......Page 37
WHAT THIS REPORT DOES NOT DO......Page 40
REFERENCES......Page 41
2 Location- Aware Computing......Page 42
Location and Orientation Sensing......Page 43
Wireless Communication......Page 44
Mobile Computing Systems......Page 48
Effective Infrastructure Deployment......Page 49
Adaptive Resource Management......Page 52
Security and Privacy......Page 56
Applications......Page 59
REFERENCES......Page 62
3 Geospatial Databases and Data Mining......Page 64
Database Management Systems......Page 65
Geospatial Data Mining Tasks......Page 66
RESEARCH CHALLENGES......Page 69
Geospatial Databases......Page 70
Issues in Geospatial Algorithms......Page 78
Geospatial Data Mining......Page 82
REFERENCES......Page 88
4 Human Interaction with Geospatial Information......Page 90
Visualization and Virtual Environments......Page 92
TECHNOLOGIES AND TRENDS......Page 91
Computer- Supported Cooperative Work......Page 94
Harnessing Information Volume and Complexity......Page 95
Geospatial for Everyone ¡ª Universal Access and Usability......Page 106
Acquisition, Access, and Use Acquisition, Access, and Use......Page 110
Collaborative Work with Geospatial Information......Page 115
REFERENCES......Page 119
APPENDIXES......Page 122
TOM BARCLAY is a researcher in Microsoft¡¯s Bay Area Research Group.......Page 124
CHRISTOS FALOUTSOS is a professor of computer science at Carnegie......Page 125
ALAN M. MACEACHREN is a professor of geography and director of......Page 126
CHERRI M. PANCAKE is a professor of computer science and Intel Faculty......Page 127
CYNTHIA A. PATTERSON is a study director and program officer with......Page 128
MARGARET HUYNH, senior project assistant, has been with the Computer......Page 129
Monday, October 1, 2001......Page 130
Location- Aware Computing/ Sensing Subgroup......Page 131
Visualization, HCI, Collaborative Work Subgroup......Page 132
General Observers......Page 133
C List of White Papers Prepared for the Workshop......Page 134
What Is CSTB?......Page 136