This book provides a relevant and comprehensive reference point for research and practice in this dynamic field. It offers detailed explanations of geospatial technologies, provides critical reviews and appraisals of their application in society within international and multi-disciplinary contexts as agents of change.
The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society provides a relevant and comprehensive reference point for research and practice in this dynamic field. It offers detailed explanations of geospatial technologies and provides critical reviews and appraisals of their application in society within international and multi-disciplinary contexts as agents of change.
The ability of geospatial data to transform knowledge in contemporary and future societies forms an important theme running throughout the entire volume. Contributors reflect on the changing role of geospatial technologies in society and highlight new applications that represent transformative directions in society and point towards new horizons. Furthermore, they encourage dialogue across disciplines to bring new theoretical perspectives on geospatial technologies, from neurology to heritage studies.
The international contributions from leading scholars and influential practitioners that constitute the Handbook provide a wealth of critical examples of these technologies as agents of change in societies around the globe. The book will appeal to advanced undergraduates and practitioners interested or engaged in their application worldwide.
Introduction Part I: Origins and Perspectives of Geospatial Technologies
1. Latitude, Longitude, and Geospatial Technologies to 1884
2. The
Photo-mechanical Era of Cartography: A Recollection
3. The Roots of GIS
4.
Positivism, Power, and Critical GIS
5. Geospatial Standards: An Example from
Agriculture
6. Technology, Aesthetics, and Affordances
7. Race and Mapping
8.
Feminist Geography and Geospatial Technologies
9. Mapping the Subaltern
10.
Geospatial Technologies and Rural and Indigenous Spatial Knowledges
11.
Social Constructivism and Geospatial Technologies: Neogeography, Big Data,
and Deep Maps Part II: Understanding Geospatial Technologies
12. Mobile
Mapping
13. Airborne and Ground-based Laser Scanning
14. Drones and Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
15. Airborne Photogrammetric Mapping
16. Digital
Elevation Models (DEMs)
17. Extended Realities (XR)
18. Free and Open-Source
Software for Geospatial Applications (FOSS4G)
19. APIs, Coding and Language
for Geospatial Technologies
20. Spatial Analysis and Modelling
21. The
Geovisualisation of Big Data
22. Machine Learning and Geospatial Technologies
23. Artificial Intelligence for Geospatial Applications Part III:
Applications of Geospatial Technologies
24. Location Matters: Trends in
Location-Based Services
25. Mapping Buildings and Cities
26. Underground
Mapping
27. Geospatial Technology and Food Security: Forging a
Four-Dimensional Partnership
28. The Past, Present and Future of Technologies
for Improved Water Management
29. Ocean Mapping: Taxonomies of the Fluid
Geospatial
30. Geospatial Technologies in Transport: Shaping and Recording
Everyday Lived Experiences
31. Geospatial Technologies in Electrical Systems
32. Geospatial Technologies and Public Health
33. Applications of GIScience
to Disease Mapping: A COVID-19 Case Study
34. Geosurveillance and Society
35.
Geospatial Technology and Journalism in a Post-truth World
36. Advancing
Sustainability Research through Geospatial Technology and Social Media
37.
Crisis and Hazard Mapping
38. Humanitarian Relief and Geospatial Technologies
39. Geospatial Technology and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
40.
Maps of Time 41 Geospatial Technologies in Archaeology
42. Mapping Planetary
Bodies Part IV: New Ontologies and Strategies for Geospatial Technologies
43.
Toward the Democratization of Geospatial Data: Evaluating Data Decisioning
Practices
44. Developing Geospatial Strategies
45. Map Thinking Across the
Life Sciences
46. Spatial Anthropology: Understanding Deep Mapping as a Form
of Visual Ethnography
47. The Quantum Turn for Geospatial Technologies and
Society
48. The Locus Charter: Towards Ethical Principles and Practice for
Location Data Services
Alexander J. Kent is Honorary Reader in Cartography and Geographic Information Science at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, and leads the Coastal Connections project for World Monuments Fund and English Heritage.
Doug Specht is a Chartered Geographer and a Reader in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster, UK.
