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Authorship announcement -- GIS/EM4 -- First Circular, March 23, 2000
AUTHOR INVITATION AND OPPORTUNITY
Proposed book title: Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling
Editors: Keith C. Clarke, Bradley O. Parks and Michael P. Crane
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Background
Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling (GISEM) is
intended to fill three needs. First, it will act as one of the permanent
records of the Fourth International Conference on Integrating GIS and
Environmental Modeling: Problems, Prospects, and Research Needs. This is an
international research conference to improve spatio-temporal predictive
modeling of processes, events, and phenomena for environmental problem
solving. The first conference of this sort was formulated by a team of
research scientists then affiliated with the US Environmental Protection
Agency and the US Geological Survey, with a collaborative link to the
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. Convened in
Boulder, Colorado, in 1991, results exceeded expectations and the meeting
accommodated nearly twice the anticipated number of participating
scientists. The resulting book of invited and contributed papers formulated
the first agenda for research in this area (Goodchild, et al., 1993). A
second meeting, three years later, at the request of many scientists who
strongly endorsed the enterprise, and which included important innovations
needed to sustain its leadership role, was convened in Breckenridge,
Colorado in 1993. It was characterized by both greater depth and breadth
with limited, but explicit, inclusion of human dimensions of environmental
change (Goodchild, et al., 1996).
The third international conference was convened jointly with NCGIA by a
consortium of scientists, scientific agencies, and technology partners who
retained continuity under the leadership of a Core Planning Group of
scientists. Held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1996, this meeting
incorporated strong influence by the Santa Fe Institute in areas such
as individual-based modeling and evolutionary computing. Special sessions
on land use and anthropological modeling applications were also
incorporated in the first explicit commitments to human dimensions within
the domain of such a meeting. The fourth meeting, to be held September 2-8,
2000 at the The Banff Centre for Conferences, Banff,
Alberta, Canada will continue the tradition, but with a new emphasis on
human dimensions. Sponsors for the meeting to-date include: NSF, NCGIA,
NASA, USFS, EPA, NOAA, USGS, USACE/DOD, and NRCS. Again, the book will act
as a permanent record for the meeting, and the goal is to have the book
available for the meeting.
Second, the book will stand alone as a senior undergraduate/graduate
student college text/reader, suitable for use in any of the newly created
graduate seminars and classes in GIS/EM now under formulation at major
universities around the country, and the world. As such, we hope that
GISEM will develop the infrastructure to become a permanent
addition to the college curriculum, and therefore into a new role for GIS
and modeling in scientific research on the environment. The book will be an
important early milestone in establishing such a curriculum niche.
Third, we anticipate that the book will represent the state of the art in
integarting environmental modeling and GIS at the end of the twentieth
century. We hope that the leading scholars in the field will contribute,
and act as exemplars for the future, elevating the book to the status of a
classic or handbook in the field. GIS already has such a handbook, and we
believe now is the time for GISEM to follow.
We Need You
The target is to assign chapters to individual or collective authors. Only
by working in parallel can a book of this importance be completred, and
completed on time in a short schedule. We invite you to write one of the
book's chapters. Content and scope are to be determined by the authors, who
will be asked to submit a two-level table of contents by January 2000. With
further input and guidance from the ditors, we hope that final drafts of
the chapters can be ready for peer review by fellow co-authors and others
by about April 2000. Final camera-ready form will be due June 1st, 2000.
Prentice Hall, the publisher, has agreed to fast-track the book from camera
ready to finished form for sale and distribution at the conference in
September 2000.
If you believe that you could author one of these chapters, we need to hear
from you quickly. Send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and let me know
which chapter you are interested in (or call 805-893-7961 US Pacific Time).
Full commitments must be in place by the end of January 2000 (contracts
will be signed), and you will be expected to follow the guidelines below. A
stipend will be paid to authors on signing, and future royalties will be
divided equally between the authors and editors. A Prentice Hall author
guide can be found on the Prentice Hall website www.prenhall.com. Final
format and layout will be done by the editors, and several different word
processors can be accomodated.
Critical Dates
Release of this page to website: March 24th 2000
Author level two table-of-contents and contracts: April 10th, 2000
Draft of chapter: May 31st, 2000
Peer Reviews Complete: June 30th, 2000
Camera-ready Deadline: July 15th, 2000
Book to appear: September 1st, 2000 (available at meeting)
Guidelines
Authors should follow a common format for each chapter as follows:
Chapter Title
Author and affiliation
Summary for the chapter (about one page)
How this chapter fits into the book
What is unique to this chapter
Name any overall approaches
Itemize a list of models referred to
Body of the chapter text
Conclusion and lessons learned
References
Information Resources (e.g. web sites, collections, series etc)
Short bio of the author(s) and photograph
Table of Contents (For revision)
Chapter 1: Modeling the Environment with GIS: Historical Context
Lead author: Nigel Waters, U. Calgary
Modeling before the computer
Analytical vs. Empirical modeling
The systems approach to modeling
The evolution of GIS
GIS/EM
The tight versus loose coupling debate
Chapter 2: Modeling Frameworks, Paradigms and Approaches
Lead author: Helen Couclelis, UCSB
Analytical and mathematical modeling
Dynamics and equilibrium
Complex systems theory
Agent-based modeling
Cellular automata
Geoprocessing
Chapter 3: Spatial Environmental Decision Support Systems
Lead author: John Corbett, Texas A&M
Information for decision making
GIS in social and environmental context
What is a Decision Support System?
DSS's Role in GIS/EM
Chapter 4: GIS Data Sources and Measurement Technologies for Modeling
New data from traditional sources
New information (EOS, DOQ, Landsat 7, SRTM etc)
Field Measurement (GPS to GIS direct, GPS cameras)
The Web as a Data Source
Digital Libraries and Digital Earth
Chapter 5: Modeling Languages
Case Studies: CELLANG, STELLA, SWARM, GeoAlgebra, PCRASTER
Chapter 6: Dynamic Systems Modeling and Four Dimensional GIS
Lead author: Morgan Grove, Baltimore LTER, USDA
The Problems of Dynamics
GIS and the Time Dimension
Solutions: Temporal GIS and Environmental Processes
Movements and Flows
Case Studies
Chapter 7: Modeling Human Systems
Case Studies in Human systems e.g. Urban growth, land use,
transportation, water supply, pollution.
Chapter 8: Modeling Physical Systems
Case studies in Physical. e.g. Hydrological models, geomorphology,
hazards, air circulation
Chapter 9: Integrative Environmental Modeling
Systems of Models
Languages as Formalizations for Integrated Modeling
Model Coupling and GIS
Tight versus Loose Coupling
The Benefits of Integrated Model Systems
User Interfaces and Tools for Integrated Modeling
Chapter 10: Case Studies in GIS/EM
Land Use and Land Cover Modeling
Ecological Systems Modeling
Global Climatic Models
Epidemiological Modeling
Modeling Fresh Water
Modeling the Oceans
Chapter 11: Visualizing Environmental Data
Visualization as Exploratory Data Analysis
Visualization as Models (VRML, virtual worlds)
Visualization's Role in GIS
Chapter 12: GIS/EM Where next?
Comments on the Rise of Integrated Modeling
Important Trends at the Millennium
The Future for GIS/EM
Bibliography
List of Pertinent Web Sites
Other Information Sources
