Geographic information science in the era of geospatial big data: A cyberspace perspective

Geographic information science in the era of geospatial big data: A cyberspace perspective Xintao Liu,1 Min Chen,2,21,* Christophe Claramunt,3 Michael Batty,4 Mei-Po Kwan,5 Ahmad M. Senousi,6 Tao Cheng,7 Josef Strobl,8 Cöltekin Arzu,9 John Wilson,10 Temenoujka Bandrova,11 Milan Konecny,2,12 Paul M. Torrens,13 Fengyuan Zhang,1 Li He,14 Jinfeng Wang,15 Carlo Ratti,16 Olaf Kolditz,17 Alexander Klippel,18 Songnian Li,19 Hui Lin,20 and Guonian L€ u2,21,* 1Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, Kowloon, China 2Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Ministry of Education of PRC), Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China 3The French Naval Academy Research Institute, 29240 Lanveoc-Poulmic, France 4The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London (UCL), WC1E 6BT London, UK 5Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Shatin 999077, China 6Department of Civil Engineering, Cairo University, 12613 Cairo, Egypt 7SpaceTimeLab, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London (UCL), WC1E 6BT London, UK 8Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria 9Institute of Interactive Technologies (IIT), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland 10Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA 11Laboratory on Cartography, Department of Photogrammetry and Cartography, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria 12Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography, Department of Geography, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Ceská Republika 13Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School & Center for Urban Science + Progress, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA 14School of Humanities and Social Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China 15Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 16Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 17Centre for Environmental Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany 18Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen 6708, the Netherlands 19Department of Civil Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada 20School of Geography and Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China 21Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China *Correspondence: chenmin0902@njnu.edu.cn (M.C.); gnlu@njnu.edu.cn (G.L.) Received: April 20, 2022; Accepted: June 29, 2022; Published Online: July 6, 2022; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100279 a 2022 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Citation: Liu X., Chen M., Claramunt C., et al., (2022). Geographic information science in the era of geospatial big data: A cyberspace perspective. The Innovation 3(5), 100279.