Geoinformatics and digital earth initiatives:a German perspective

作     者：M.Ehlers 

作者机构：Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote SensingUniversity of OsnabrueckSeminarstr.19 abD-49074 OsnabrueckGermany 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Digital Earth》 (国际数字地球学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2008年第1卷第1期

页      面：17-30,I0002页

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学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：geoinformatics digital earth modeling position paper emerging scientific discipline academic programmes 

摘      要：This paper discusses the role of Geoinformatics as a new scientific discipline designed for handling of geospatial *** on the scientific background of the people involved in shaping the emerging discipline,emphasis may be placed on different aspects of *** and developments may address geoscientific,spatial planning,or computer science related *** scientific field of Geoinformatics encompasses the acquisition and storing of geospatial data,the modelling and presentation of spatial information,geoscientific analyses and spatial planning,and the development of algorithms and geospatial database *** is the position of the author that these tools from Geoinformatics are necessary to bridge the gap between Digital Earth models and the real world with its real-world problems(‘connecting through location’).It is,however,crucial that Geoinformatics represents a coherent integrated approach to the acquisition,storage,analysis,modeling,presentation,and dissemination of geo-processes and not a patchwork solution of unconnected fields of *** is as such not a part of Geography,Surveying,or Computer Science,but a new self-contained scientific *** current paper highlights international and national trends of the discipline and presents a number of Geoinformatics *** research and teaching activities of the newly formed Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing(IGF)at the University of Osnabrueck serve as an example for these *** these developments have lead to the long overdue formation of a scientific‘Society for Geoinformatics’(German:Gesellschaft fu¨r Geoinformatik-GfGI)in Germany.