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This paper discusses the challenges facing GIS designers in the 21st century. We argue that GI engineers lack a sound theoretical basis that would allow them to make best use of new technologies that handle geospatial data. Considering three important topics for the new generations of GIS (change, semantics, and cognition) we show that GIS theory is in a state of flux. Thus, researchers and engineers need to cooperate more for the new generation of GIS to be built in the best possible way.
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- Geographical Information System
- Spatial Cognition
- Geospatial Data
- Remote Sensing Image
- Graphical Information System
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The authors would like to thank Andrew Frank, whose research contributions have pointed to many areas, which are relevant to the GIE field. Frank has contributions in many areas, and this paper discusses only a limited part of his work. The authors also thank Werner Kuhn for many hours of inspired discussion, and the two anonymous reviewers for much useful guidance. Gilberto Camara’s work is partially funded by CNPq (grant PQ 550250/2005-0) and FAPESP (grant 04/11012-0).
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Câmara, G., Vinhas, L., Davis, C., Fonseca, F., Carneiro, T. (2009). Geographical Information Engineering in the 21st Century. In: Navratil, G. (eds) Research Trends in Geographic Information Science. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88244-2_14
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