Geo-Data Science:Leveraging Geoscience Research with Geoinformatics,Semantics and Open Data

摘要

1 Key concepts underpinning geo-data science Geoinformatics and Geomathematics Computers have been used for data collection,management,analysis,and transmission in geoscience for about 70 years since the 1950s (Merriam,2001;2004).The term geoinformatics is widely used to describe such activities.In real-world practices,researchers in both geography and geoscience are using the term geoinformatics.