Wiki.GIS.com:Taxonomy


 * Organizations
 * Business
 * GIS Software Vendors
 * GIS Services Vendors
 * Data Vendors
 * Hardware Vendors
 * Government
 * NGOs
 * Non-Profit
 * Educational / Scientific
 * Coordinating organizations
 * Federal agencies and national and international organizations and programs
 * State and regional coordinating bodies
 * Professional organizations
 * Publications
 * The geospatial community
 * The geospatial industry
 * Organizational and Institutional Aspects
 * Origins of GIS
 * Public sector origins
 * Private sector origins
 * Academic origins
 * Learning from experience
 * Future trends
 * Managing GIS operations and infrastructure
 * Ongoing GI system revision
 * Budgeting for GI system management
 * Database administration
 * System management
 * User support
 * Organizational structures and procedures
 * Organizational models for GIS management
 * Coordinating GIS
 * Integrating GIS with MIS
 * GIS workforce themes
 * GIS staff development
 * GIS positions and qualifications
 * GIS training and education
 * Incorporating GIS into existing job classifications
 * Institutional and inter-institutional aspects
 * Spatial data infrastructures
 * Adoption of standards
 * Technology transfer
 * Spatial data sharing among organizations
 * Openness
 * Balancing data access, security, and privacy
 * Implications of distributed GIS
 * Interorganizational and vendor GIS
 * Individuals
 * Geographers
 * Mathematicians
 * Writers
 * Historians
 * Explorers
 * Pioneers of GIS
 * Process
 * Analytical Methods
 * Academic and analytical origins
 * Academic foundations
 * Analytical approaches
 * Query operations and query languages
 * Set theory
 * SQL and attribute queries
 * Spatial queries
 * Geometric measures
 * Distances and lengths
 * Direction
 * Shape
 * Area
 * Proximity and distance decay
 * Adjacency and connectivity
 * Basic analytical operations
 * Buffers
 * Overlay
 * Neighborhoods
 * Map algebra
 * Basic analytical methods
 * Point pattern analysis
 * Kernels and density estimation
 * Spatial cluster analysis
 * Spatial interaction
 * Analyzing multidimensional attributes
 * Cartographic modeling
 * Multi-criteria evaluation
 * Spatial process models
 * Analysis of surfaces
 * Calculating surface derivatives
 * Interpolation of surfaces
 * Surface features
 * Intervisibility
 * Friction surfaces
 * Spatial statistics
 * Graphical methods
 * Stochastic processes
 * Spatial weights matrix
 * Global measures of spatial association
 * Local measures of spatial association
 * Outliers
 * Bayesian methods
 * Geostatistics
 * Spatial sampling
 * Principles of semi-variogram construction
 * Semi-variogram modeling
 * Principles of kriging
 * Kriging variants
 * Spatial regression and econometrics
 * Principles of spatial econometrics
 * Spatial autoregressive models
 * Spatial filtering
 * Spatial expansion and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR)
 * Data mining
 * Problems of large spatial databases
 * Data mining approaches
 * Knowledge discovery
 * Pattern recognition and matching
 * Network analysis
 * Networks defined
 * Graph theoretic measures
 * Shortest path
 * Flow modeling
 * The Classic Transportation Problem
 * Other classic network problems
 * Accessibility Modeling
 * Optimization and location-allocation modeling
 * Operations research modeling
 * Linear programming
 * Integer programming
 * Location-allocation modeling and p-median problems
 * Conceptual Foundations
 * Philosophical foundations
 * Metaphysics and ontology
 * Epistemology
 * Philosophical perspectives
 * Cognitive and social foundations
 * Perception and cognition of geographic phenomena
 * From concepts to data
 * Geography as a foundation for GIS
 * Place and landscape
 * Common-sense geographies
 * Cultural influences
 * Political influences
 * Domains of geographic information
 * Space
 * Time
 * Relationships between space and time
 * Properties
 * Elements of geographic information
 * Discrete entities
 * Events and processes
 * Fields in space and time
 * Integrated models
 * Relationships
 * Categories
 * Mereology: structural relationships
 * Genealogical relationships: lineage, inheritance
 * Topological relationships
 * Metrical relationships: distance and direction
 * Spatial distribution
 * Region
 * Spatial integration
 * Imperfections in geographic information
 * Vagueness
 * Mathematical models of vagueness: Fuzzy sets and rough sets
 * Error-based uncertainty
 * Mathematical models of uncertainty: Probability and statistics
 * Cartography and Visualization
 * History and trends
 * History of cartography
 * Technological transformations
 * Data considerations
 * Source materials for mapping
 * Data abstraction: classification, selection, and generalization
 * Projections as a map design issue
 * Principles of map design
 * Map design fundamentals
 * Basic concepts of symbolization
 * Color for cartography and visualization
 * Graphic representation techniques
 * Basic thematic mapping methods
 * Multivariate displays
 * Dynamic and interactive displays
 * Representing terrain
 * Web mapping and visualizations
 * Virtual and immersive environments
 * Spatialization
 * Visualization of temporal geographic data
 * Visualization of uncertainty
 * Map use and evaluation
 * The power of maps
 * Map reading
 * Map interpretation
 * Map analysis
 * Evaluation and testing
 * Impact of uncertainty
 * Design Aspects
 * The scope of GIS system design
 * Using models to represent information and processes
 * Components of models: data, structures, procedures
 * The scope of GIS applications
 * The scope of GIS design
 * The process of GIS design
 * Project definition
 * Problem definition
 * Planning for design
 * Application/user assessment
 * Requirements analysis
 * Social, political, and cultural issues
 * Resource planning
 * Feasibility analysis
 * Software systems
 * Data costs
 * Labor and management
 * Capital: facilities and equipment
 * Funding
 * Database design
 * Modeling tools
 * Conceptual models
 * Logical models
 * Physical models
 * Analysis design
 * Recognizing analytical components
 * Identifying and designing analytical procedures
 * Coupling scientific models with GIS
 * Formalizing a procedure design
 * Application design
 * Workflow analysis and design
 * User interfaces
 * Development environments for geospatial applications
 * Computer-aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools
 * Data Modeling
 * Basic storage and retrieval structures
 * Basic structures
 * Data retrieval strategies
 * Tessellation data models
 * Grid representations
 * The raster model
 * Grid compression methods
 * The hexagonal model
 * The Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) model
 * Resolution
 * Hierarchical data models
 * Vector and object data models
 * Geometric primitives
 * The spaghetti model
 * The topological model
 * Classic vector data models
 * The network model
 * Linear referencing
 * Object-based spatial databases
 * Modeling 3D, temporal, and uncertain phenomena
 * Spatio-temporal GIS
 * Modeling uncertainty
 * Modeling three-dimensional entities
 * Data Manipulation
 * Representation transformation
 * Impacts of transformations
 * Data model and format conversion
 * Interpolation
 * Vector-to-raster and raster-to-vector conversions
 * Raster resampling
 * Coordinate transformations
 * Generalization and aggregation
 * Scale and generalization
 * Point, line, and area generalization
 * Classification and transformation of attribute measurement levels
 * Aggregation of spatial entities
 * Transaction management of geospatial data
 * Database change
 * Modeling database change
 * Reconciling database change
 * Managing versioned geospatial databases
 * GIS and Society
 * Legal aspects
 * The legal regime
 * Contract law
 * Liability
 * Privacy
 * Economic aspects
 * Economics and the role of information
 * Valuing and measuring benefits
 * Models of benefits
 * Agency, organizational, and individual perspectives
 * Measuring costs
 * Use of geospatial information in the public sector
 * Uses of geospatial information in government
 * Public participation in governing
 * Public participation GIS
 * Geospatial information as property
 * Property regimes
 * Mechanisms of control of geospatial information
 * Enforcing control
 * Dissemination of geospatial information
 * Incentives and barriers to sharing geospatial information
 * Data sharing among organizations and individuals
 * Legal mechanisms for sharing geospatial information
 * Balancing security and open access to geospatial information
 * Ethical aspects of geospatial information and technology
 * Ethics and geospatial information
 * Codes of ethics for geospatial professionals
 * Critical GIS
 * Epistemological critiques
 * Ethical critiques
 * Feminist critiques
 * Social critiques
 * Applications
 * Agriculture
 * Crop monitoring
 * Livestock
 * Pest control
 * Precision agriculture
 * Weed abatement
 * Aquaculture
 * Anthropology
 * Archaeology
 * Biology
 * Business
 * Banking
 * Insurance
 * Media
 * Real estate
 * Retail
 * Climatology
 * Meteorology
 * Development
 * Urban planning
 * Regional planning
 * Architecture
 * Engineering
 * Construction
 * Economics
 * Education
 * Libraries
 * Museums
 * Higher education
 * K-12 education
 * Environmental GIS
 * Conservation
 * Ecology
 * Wildlife
 * Geology
 * Geomorphology
 * Petroleum
 * Mining
 * Geography
 * Archaeology
 * Government
 * Federal government
 * State government
 * Local government
 * Assessing
 * Parcel mapping
 * Surveying
 * Defense
 * Homeland security
 * Public safety
 * Disaster management
 * Emergency response (use for E911)
 * Law enforcement
 * Crime analysis
 * Health care
 * Public health
 * Epidemiology
 * Natural resource management
 * Forestry
 * Telecommunications
 * Transportation
 * Accident analysis
 * Intelligent transportation systems (ITS)
 * Logistics
 * Location-based services
 * Utilities
 * Electricity
 * Telecommunications
 * Water resources
 * Hydrology
 * Water supply
 * Technology
 * Computing
 * Graphics (computing)
 * Hardware
 * Internet
 * Programming
 * Software
 * Geocomputation
 * Emergence of geocomputation
 * Origins
 * Trends
 * Computational aspects and neurocomputing
 * High-performance computing
 * Computational intelligence
 * Non-linearity relationships and non-Gaussian distributions
 * Pattern recognition
 * Geospatial data classification
 * Multi-layer feed-forward neutral networks
 * Space-scale algorithms
 * Rule learning
 * Neural network schemes
 * Cellular Automata (CA) models
 * CA Model Structure
 * CA Transition Rule
 * CA simulation and calibration
 * Integration of CA and other geocomputation methods
 * Typical CA applications
 * Heuristics
 * Greedy heuristics
 * Interchange heuristics
 * Interchange with probability
 * Simulated annealing
 * Langrangian relaxation
 * Genetic algorithms (GA)
 * GA and global solutions
 * Genetic algorithms and artificial genomes
 * Agent-based models
 * Structure of agent-based models
 * Specification of agent-based models
 * Adaptive agents
 * Microsimulation and calibration of agent activities
 * Encoding agent-based models
 * Simulation modeling
 * Simulation modeling
 * Uncertainty
 * Conceptual model of uncertainty
 * Error
 * Problems of scale and zoning
 * Propagation of error in geospatial modeling
 * Theory of error propagation
 * Problems of currency, source, and scale
 * Fuzzy sets
 * Fuzzy logic
 * Fuzzy measures
 * Fuzzy aggregation operators
 * Standardization
 * Weighting schemes
 * Geospatial Data
 * Earth geometry
 * History of understanding Earth’s shape
 * Geoids
 * Spheres and ellipsoids
 * Euclidean geometry
 * Land partitioning systems
 * Unsystematic methods
 * Systematic methods
 * Georeferencing systems
 * Geographic coordinate system
 * Plane coordinate systems
 * Tessellated referencing systems
 * Linear referencing systems
 * Datums
 * Horizontal datums
 * Vertical datums
 * Map projections
 * Map projection properties
 * Map projection classes
 * Map projection parameters
 * Georegistration
 * Data quality
 * Geometric accuracy
 * Thematic accuracy
 * Resolution
 * Precision
 * Primary and secondary sources
 * Land surveying and GPS
 * Survey theory and electro-optical methods
 * cadastral and land records
 * Global Positioning System
 * Coordinate geometry (COGO)
 * Digitizing
 * Tablet digitizing
 * On-screen digitizing
 * Scanning and automated vectorization
 * Field data collection
 * Sample size selection
 * Spatial sample types
 * Sample intervals
 * Field data technologies
 * Aerial imaging and photogrammetry
 * Nature of aerial image data
 * Platforms and sensors
 * Aerial image interpretation
 * Stereoscopy and orthoimagery
 * Vector data extraction
 * Mission planning
 * Remote sensing
 * Photogrammetry
 * Aerial photography
 * Satellite imaging
 * Georeferencing
 * Digital image processing
 * Satellite and shipboard remote sensing
 * Nature of multispectral image data
 * Platforms and sensors
 * Algorithms and processing
 * Ground verification and accuracy assessment
 * Applications and settings
 * Metadata, standards, and infrastructure
 * Metadata
 * Content standards
 * Data warehouses
 * Exchange specifications
 * Transport protocols
 * Spatial Data Infrastructures
 * Cartography and Visualization
 * Cartography
 * map design
 * symbology
 * graphics (map display)
 * Map production
 * Computational issues
 * Map production
 * Map reproduction
 * Design Aspects
 * Resource planning
 * Software systems
 * Database design
 * Modeling tools
 * Conceptual models
 * Logical models
 * Physical models
 * System implementation
 * Implementation planning
 * Implementation tasks
 * System testing
 * System deployment
 * Data Modeling
 * Database management systems
 * Coevolution of DBMS and GIS
 * Relational DBMS
 * Object-oriented DBMS
 * Extensions of the relational model