Geographic information science in the era of geospatial big data: A cyberspace perspective

• Xintao Liu,
• Min Chen,
• Christophe Claramunt,
• Michael Batty,
• Mei-Po Kwan,
• Ahmad M. Senousi,
• Tao Cheng,
• Josef Strobl,
• Cöltekin Arzu,
• John Wilson,
• Temenoujka Bandrova,
• Milan Konecny,
• Paul M. Torrens,
• Fengyuan Zhang,
• Li He,
• Jinfeng Wang,
• Carlo Ratti,
• Olaf Kolditz,
• Alexander Klippel,
• Songnian Li,
• Hui Lin,
• Guonian Lü

Affiliations

Xintao Liu

Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, Kowloon, China

Min Chen

Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Ministry of Education of PRC), Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China; Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China; Corresponding author

Christophe Claramunt

The French Naval Academy Research Institute, 29240 Lanveoc-Poulmic, France

Michael Batty

The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London (UCL), WC1E 6BT London, UK

Mei-Po Kwan

Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Shatin 999077, China

Ahmad M. Senousi

Department of Civil Engineering, Cairo University, 12613 Cairo, Egypt

Tao Cheng

SpaceTimeLab, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London (UCL), WC1E 6BT London, UK

Josef Strobl

Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Cöltekin Arzu

Institute of Interactive Technologies (IIT), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland

John Wilson

Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA

Temenoujka Bandrova

Laboratory on Cartography, Department of Photogrammetry and Cartography, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria

Milan Konecny

Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Ministry of Education of PRC), Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China; Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography, Department of Geography, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Česká Republika

Paul M. Torrens

Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School & Center for Urban Science + Progress, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA

Fengyuan Zhang

Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, Kowloon, China

Li He

School of Humanities and Social Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

Jinfeng Wang

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Carlo Ratti

Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Olaf Kolditz

Centre for Environmental Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany

Alexander Klippel

Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen 6708, the Netherlands

Songnian Li

Department of Civil Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada

Hui Lin

School of Geography and Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China

Guonian Lü

Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Ministry of Education of PRC), Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China; Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China; Corresponding author