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Landmarks GIScience for Intelligent Services /

This book covers the latest research on landmarks in GIS, including practical applications. It addresses perceptual and cognitive aspects of natural and artificial cognitive systems, computational aspects with respect to identifying or selecting landmarks for various purposes, and communication aspe...

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Main Authors: Richter, Kai-Florian. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Winter, Stephan. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Subjects:
Computers.
Geographical information systems.
Artificial intelligence.
Geography.
Psychology.
Information Systems and Communication Service.
Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.
Artificial Intelligence.
Geography, general.
Psychology, general.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05732-3
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What landmarks are, and why they are important
  • Landmarks: A thought experiment
  • Cognitive aspects: How people perceive, memorize, think and talk about landmarks
  • Conceptual aspects: How landmarks can be described in data models
  • Computational aspects: How landmarks can be observed, stored, and analysed
  • Communication aspects: How landmarks enrich the communication between human and machine
  • Conclusions: What is known and what is still challenging about landmarks.

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