Core concepts of spatial information for transdisciplinary research

Werner Kuhn
2012 International Journal of Geographical Information Science  
Geographic information science is coming out of its niche behind the systems, in order to contribute to transdisciplinary research. To succeed, this move requires a conceptual consensus on what spatial information is and how it can be used. The article proposes a set of ten core concepts of spatial information, intended to be meaningful to scientists who are not specialists of spatial information: location, neighbourhood, field, object, network, event, granularity, accuracy, meaning, and value.
more » ... Each concept is briefly characterized by the questions it helps answer and the roles it plays across disciplines and scales. The need to map between different uses of the concepts is identified as a major research challenge.
doi:10.1080/13658816.2012.722637 fatcat:cimorqpx6bca7i4dyi3iyjci2e