Core Concepts of Geoinformatics: introdcution Gilberto Camara National Institute for Space Research, Brazil Institut für Geoinformatik, Univ Münster
The motivation for “big data” source: Louis Perrochon (Google)
Is the scientific method obsolete?
social network sensors everywhere mobile devices ubiquitous imagery Mobile devices, crowdsourcing, massive Earth observation sets: new technologies, new challenges
Data-intensive Geoinformatics = principles and applications of spatial information science for handling large and complex data sets
Geoinformatics enables crucial links between nature and society Nature: Physical equations Describe processes Society: Decisions on how to Use Earth´s resources
Scientists and Engineers Photo 51(Franklin, 1952) Scientists build in order to study Engineers study in order to build
Stuart Feldman, VP Engineering, Google, Unicamp 2011
The rôle and duties of a software engineer Fred Brooks, “No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering”. IEEE Computer, 1987 “The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: data sets, relationships among data items, algorithms, and invocations of functions. The hard part of building software is the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation. Building software will always be hard.”
Challenges for GI software architects Classical view of software development Concepts + Types + Algorithms + Data Structures + Data Sources + Custom programs = Systems for solving real-life problems GI Engineering needs
Core concepts of spatial information (Kuhn, IJGIS, 2012) location neighborhood network fieldobject event
Geometry Cellular Space Social Network Object Core concepts as abstract data types Coverage Time Series Trajectory Event Agent
From Analogue spaces to digital spaces
Hic sunt leones et dragones
fonte: Carlos Nobre Hic sunt leones et dragones
Digital space: Images
Digital space: Flows in networks
1991 iex Digital space: Social exclusion in São Paulo 2000
Digital space: Crime mapping in Porto Alegre
Homicide risk in São Paulo – 2003
Digital space: Deforestation
Ontologies of digital space
What Geoinformatics is about Computational representations of geographical space