Computers & Geosciences - Special issue on GIS design models
An introduction to database systems (7th ed.)
An introduction to database systems (7th ed.)
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
A relational model of data for large shared data banks
Communications of the ACM
Three Dimensional Applications in Geographical Information Systems
Three Dimensional Applications in Geographical Information Systems
Topology in Raster and Vector Representation
Geoinformatica
A Formal Theory of Objects and Fields
COSIT 2001 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science
People Manipulate Objects (but Cultivate Fields): Beyond the Raster-Vector Debate in GIS
Proceedings of the International Conference GIS - From Space to Territory: Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning on Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space
Modeling and comparing change using spatiotemporal helixes
GIS '03 Proceedings of the 11th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in Gis Data Modeling
Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in Gis Data Modeling
GIS: A Computing Perspective, 2nd Edition
GIS: A Computing Perspective, 2nd Edition
Finite Element Mesh Generation
Finite Element Mesh Generation
Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation
Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation
Logical handling of uncertain, ontology-based, spatial information
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Fusing Uncertain Structured Spatial Information
SUM '08 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management
Towards a General Field model and its order in GIS
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
NeoGeography and the nature of geographic expertise
Journal of Location Based Services - NeoGeography
Environmental Modelling & Software
Case-based reasoning for eliciting the evolution of geospatial objects
COSIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Spatial information theory
SSDBM'10 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Scientific and statistical database management
Geosimulation of geographic dynamics based on Voronoi diagram
Transactions on computational science IX
Geosimulation of geographic dynamics based on Voronoi diagram
Transactions on computational science IX
Constructing geo-ontologies by reification of observation data
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
Explanatory semantic relatedness and explicit spatialization for exploratory search
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
ER'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Advances in Conceptual Modeling
Enhanced spatiotemporal relational probability trees and forests
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
The digital earth as knowledge engine
Semantic Web
A tool for mapping and spatio-temporal analysis of hydrological data
Environmental Modelling & Software
A conceptual framework for geographic knowledge engineering
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
The Digital Earth as knowledge engine
Semantic Web
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Geographic representation has become more complex through time as researchers have added new concepts, leading to apparently endless proliferation and creating a need for simplification. We show that many of these concepts can be derived from a single foundation that we term the atomic form of geographic information. The familiar concepts of continuous fields and discrete objects can be derived under suitable rules applied to the properties and values of the atomic form. Fields and objects are further integrated through the concept of phase space, and in the form of field objects. A second atomic concept is introduced, termed the geo-dipole, and shown to provide a foundation for object fields, metamaps, and the association classes of object-oriented data modelling. Geographic dynamics are synthesized in a three-dimensional space defined by static or dynamic object shape, the possibility of movement, and the possibility of dynamic internal structure. The atomic form also provides a tentative argument that discrete objects and continuous fields are the only possible bases for geographic representation.