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 What
is Telegeoinformatics? The term " Telegeoinformatics" was
coined by Dr.
Karimi as a discipline that encompasses
telecommunication for mobile computing, thus "tele," geospatial
data and processing, thus "geo," and information processing,
thus "informatics." Telegeoinformatics is defined as
a new discipline emerging as a result of integrating
mobile computing, wired and wireless communications ,
and geoinformatics including Geographic Information System
(GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), and remote sensing
techniques and technologies. In short, Telegeoinformatics
is a distributed mobile computing environment where location
- aware mobile clients are interconnected to other mobile
clients, stationary clients, and servers via wired and
wireless communication networks and where the bulk of
computations is location based. With this in mind, Telegeoinformatics
is a discipline that encompasses Location-Based Computing
(LBC), providing the underpinning computing and communication
infrastructure, and Location-Based Services (LBSs), supporting
the set of technologies and data to process application-specific
requests.
Users of Telegeoinformatics come from diverse
backgrounds and interests wanting to solve a range of
problems emphasizing location information. Users of Telegeoinformatics
range from individuals seeking locations of nearby objects
(e.g., restaurants) while driving , using in-car navigation
systems or subscribing to LBSs , to dispatchers managing
a fleet of vehicles within an area in real time (e.g.,
delivery truck services), to engineers interested in
obtaining such information as most up-to-date imagery
and GIS data to repair damage on infrastructures (e.g.,
bridges). Like users, applications of Telegeoinformatics,
both existing and emerging, are diverse and widespread.
Example applications include transportation, transit,
utilities, environmental studies, navigation, planning,
and public health.
The goal of publishing a book on Telegeoinformatics
was to provide potential readers from different backgrounds
and expertise to realize the fundamental intricacies
of Telegeoinformatics. To achieve this goal, the book
is divided into three major parts: Theories and Technologies
, Integrated Data and T echnologies, and A pplications.
Each part contains several chapters, each covering an
important topic in Telegeoinformatics. The book is intended
to be used by researchers, professionals, and students
from different disciplines including computer science,
information technology, and engineering.
Dr. Karimi is an Assistant Professor in SIS's Department
of Information Science and Telecommunications. Dr. Karimi's
current research interests include geospatial information
systems, grid/distributed/parallel computing, mobile
computing, computational geometry, in-car navigation
systems, spatial algorithms, and spatial databases.
For
Additional information about the book, click
here.
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