Many times I search about the nature of creation of different products and scientific concepts from the beginning. I wonder how many of them are being obtained because of GIS excellence and the ground-breaking discoveries of some remarkable pioneers in GIS Science.
Have we reached a geospatially related scientific ceiling and are we searching into different aspects of the same, basic concepts or, on the contrary, we have achieved remarkable achievements the latest decade, that push scientists to new, innovative scientific frontiers?
If you want, submit, according to your knowledge innovative scientific advancements that have been occured during the final decade (in order to reduce the amount of scientific achievements) that were based in GIS, or share your opinion as regards GIS related scientific achievements. This may be important for new, scientific advancements and innovative opportunities.
GIS is very important component for a lot of applications areas all over the world. It is my opinion this trend is continue now and also future. GIS is very important for cadastral application (also property), e-municipality, e- government,
What is important here is relevant to your workspace with CBS and CBS will bring to the study of innovation and analysis. In this context, for example in the field of engineering our maps, cadastral information systems, e-government, e-municipality (in the context of zoning and map), is very important in areas such as INSPIRE. Of course, CBS is not just a general component of many applications and in particular contains all. Many GIS software GIS perform the general functions. The most important job (GIS database design and its relation to spatial data) will be used by placing out all the details of the application is to create a spatial database. This is the main purpose for your application after performing spatial analysis and query can be added in addition to components such as web-GIS. In addition to GIS software for your specific function to add additional programming functions is inevitable.
Here we will use GIS summarizes the needs for the area reveals a clear and detailed way, and to create spatial database. On top of that, in addition it will be possible to add the components you want.
Hi Sir,
What a provocative question...
Please consider the following: Bringing groceries in a Plastic bag home it does not mean that you will be able to enjoy a good dinner: You simply did bring them home... GIS is just a stage, an opportunity, a facilitator. Harvesting of it may come sooner rather later. By than, you will forget of all these small things or Weltschmertzen as Germans used to say.
Best Regards,
Kazimierz Becek
Hi .. a bold question!
Jut a couple of quick thoughts!
GIS as a technology provides a platform for scienfic and research data integration and subsequent analysis and modelling. Past, current and future applications are myriad. Briefly, looking forward the integration of GIS capabilities with location aware data collection sensor pltaforms and tools will further address information gaps for research. Science, particulalry agricultural and environmental, has and contuinues to be limited by the lack of detailed (also high precision both temporal and spatial) data. In -situ or remote sensor platforms are addressing these gaps and their use in research applications will I predict continue to explode.
On a different front I dont believe the scientific ceiling has been reached yet ie. the potential to connect between graph database and GIS technologies may provide opportunities to handle more imprecise spatial data such as in the social and economic research spaces.
Regards
Steve Williams
Great question. Very broad implications for sure!
Here is a quote from a paper of mine (available on RG JGSY, 2000) entitled GIS and educational and instructional challenges.
"GIS is an enabling technology, which allows for more experimentation because the computer removes the tedium of multiple steps. Some have stated though that this simply makes it possible to make `bigger and faster mistakes' (Nyerges and Chrisman 1989). Advanced methods are used extensively in the work of academic researchers, but educators must increase the general level of understanding and usage of modeling tools that are now available." (By this I was talking about the diffusion of innovations into routine production. The reverse path is also observed -- great ideas come from challenging applied problems. I am sure that we have not reached a plateau on this.)
I will try to post another related "thought piece" on this from a paper in a book on Spatial Analysis and GIS.
LiDAR and UAVs come to mind immediately as break-throughs that were not driven by GIS per se, but would have been well nigh impossible without GIS and new sensors
If you define Geographical Information Science as "an interdisciplinary field primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement, and dissemination of spatial information. Practitioners within the field study the application and usage of spatial knowledge in organizations, along with the interaction between people in place, organizations in place and any existing spatial information systems, with the aim of creating, replacing, improving, or understanding information systems and exchanges as they relate to space and place." -The Glossary of Mapping Sciences 2nd Edition. Then I think we still have long way to go...
GIS is a beyond mapping concept and we achived and developed a geospatial model for spatial prediction of vector borne disease transmission risk across the country and developed the early warning systems or alarm for future epidemic transmission risk
Developed Rapid eopidemiological survey, mapping, disease surviellance, and risk mapping
From my point of view GIS is a tools which allows to apply different methods. Your question should address methods rather than the tool. In principle it does not matter whether you apply GIS software, statistical software or even traditional maps. It is easier to solve some problems with GIS software than with other techniques, but not all spatial methods are implemented in GIS. Hence the ceiling for GIS depends on how many method not implemented in GIS while the ceiling for scientific discoveries depends on how man methods can be invented.
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