TY - CHAP
T1 - Uncertainty of spatial information and spatial analysis
AU - Tong, Xiaohua
AU - Xie, Huan
AU - Liu, Shijie
AU - Jin, Yanmin
AU - Shi, Wenzhong
AU - Wang, Jinfeng
AU - Pei, Tao
AU - Ge, Yong
AU - Zhu, Changqing
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Uncertainty of spatial information and spatial analysis is one of the most essential and fundamental issues in geographical information science, and spatial data quality plays a critical role in geographical applications and decision-making. This chapter adopts a bibliometric quantitative analysis to study the history of international development in this field, to study the state and evolution of hot issues, and to analyse the position of China in this field as well as the contribution of NSFC with respect to gross, process and source. The result shows that the research of Chinese scholars in this field is overall top-ranked worldwide. However, there exists a gap of high-influence achievement in this field between our country and international developed countries. Therefore, further efforts should be made to strength the fundamental researches on uncertainty and trust in spatial information and to associate with the strategic requirements of national development.
AB - Uncertainty of spatial information and spatial analysis is one of the most essential and fundamental issues in geographical information science, and spatial data quality plays a critical role in geographical applications and decision-making. This chapter adopts a bibliometric quantitative analysis to study the history of international development in this field, to study the state and evolution of hot issues, and to analyse the position of China in this field as well as the contribution of NSFC with respect to gross, process and source. The result shows that the research of Chinese scholars in this field is overall top-ranked worldwide. However, there exists a gap of high-influence achievement in this field between our country and international developed countries. Therefore, further efforts should be made to strength the fundamental researches on uncertainty and trust in spatial information and to associate with the strategic requirements of national development.
KW - Application of uncertainty analysis in geosciences
KW - Error of spatial data
KW - Spatial data quality control
KW - Trust in spatial data
KW - Uncertainty of spatial data
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85059159053&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-10-1884-8_25
DO - 10.1007/978-981-10-1884-8_25
M3 - Chapter in an edited book (as author)
AN - SCOPUS:85059159053
T3 - Springer Geography
SP - 511
EP - 522
BT - Springer Geography
PB - Springer
ER -