地理信息科学新界说——M F.古特柴尔德(Goodchild)的论述

A New Definition for the Geographical Information Science──A Brilliant Exposition by Prof. M. F. Goodchild

本文以美国国家基金委员会资助美国国家地理信息与分析中心进行的瓦伦纽斯 (Varenius)研究项目 ,由古特柴尔德教授等知名学者所提交的一系列项目中期研究报告与论文为基础 ,介绍了这些学者以地理学家独特的地理哲学思维 ,对地理信息科学的有关问题所作的新的阐述与发展 ,旨在为国内学者了解 ,追踪地理信息科学的新发展 ,开展地理信息科学的跨世纪研究提供借鉴。

Based on a lot of research reports and papers offered by Prof. M. F. Goodchild and his colleagues, which is an achievement of the Varenius Project supported by the US National Science Foundation to advance Geographical Information Science, this paper introduces some new expositions and developments about a few key issues in the Geographical Information Science made by the professors mentioned above using a special mode of the geographical philosophical thinking. The aims of the paper are to help Chinese scholars to understand and trace the new developments in the Geographical Information Science, and provide some lessons for trans-century researches in the Geographical Information Science in China.