The Geospatial Web - How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)

The Geospatial Web will have a profound impact on managing knowledge, structuring workflows within and across organizations, and communicating with like-minded individuals in virtual communities. The enabling technologies for the Geospatial Web are geo-browsers such as NASA World Wind, Google Earth and Microsoft Live Local 3D. These three-dimensional platforms revolutionize the production and consumption of media products. They not only reveal the geographic distribution of Web resources and services, but also bring together people of similar interests, browsing behavior, or geographic location.

This book summarizes the latest research on the Geospatial Weba (TM)s technical foundations, describes information services and collaborative tools built on top of geo-browsers, and investigates the environmental, social and economic impacts of geospatial applications. The role of contextual knowledge in shaping the emerging network society deserves particular attention. By integrating geospatial and semantic technology, such contextual knowledge can be extracted automatically a" for example, when processing Web documents to identify relevant content for customized news services.

Presenting 25 chapters from renowned international experts, this edited volume will be invaluable to scientists, students, practitioners, and all those interested in the emerging field of geospatial Web technology. Updates and additional resources are available at www.geospatialweb.com.

Foreword by Patrick J. Hogan, Program Manager of NASA World Wind.

General

Imprint:	Springer London
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
Release date:	June 2007
First published:	2007
Editors:	Arno Scharl • Klaus Tochtermann
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
Edition:	2007 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-84628-826-5
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Internet > General
LSN:	1-84628-826-6
Barcode:	9781846288265

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