Extracting information from spatial datasets
The last two decades have seen a significant rise in the size and the complexity of spatial datasets. This rise has been driven by technological innovations such as the wider use of GPS and the ever higher resolution and improved availability of satellite images, as well as by an increased recognition in the business and commerce world of the benefits of integrating information on location into information collected. Increases in the complexity of available data have been accompanied by technical advances in hardware on which they are stored and analysed, and this has led to the development of a range of new techniques for the processing and visualisation of such data.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 31, 1-3