"This book presents innovative spatial information systems developed for a specific problem or decision-making situation. It also discusses key concepts and theories underlying current spatial information systems and technology trends and emerging concepts that may impact spatial information system development and applications in the future"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents
Ch. I           Geospatial Web services   Peisheng Zhao, Genong Yu, and Liping Di

Ch. II          Spatial information system development : the role of information system design theory and ontologies   Brian N. Hilton, Richard J. Burkhard, and Tarun Abhichandani

Ch. III          Geospatially enabled directory for emergency response interoperability   Judith Woodhall

Ch. IV         The weather tool : an agent-based approach to information integration   Gunjan Kalra

Ch. V          GIME : a geotechnical information exchange architecture using Web services   Wei-Shinn Ku, and Roger Zimmermann

Ch. VI         ScienceMaps : an online resource portal for standards-based science instruction using geographic information system technology   June K. Hilton, and David E. Drew

Ch. VII         Flexible spatial decision-making and support : processes and systems   Shan Gao, and David Sundaram

Ch. VIII        Development of a Web-based intelligent spatial decisions support system (WEBISDSS) : a case study with snow removal operations   Ramanathan Sugumaran, Shriram Ilavajhala, and Vijayan Sugumaran

Ch. IX         Conservation studio : dynamically modeling and mapping habitat suitability   Todd G. Olson, and Brian N. Hilton

Ch. X          GIS-based site suitability decision support system for planning confined animal feeding operations in Iowa   Ramanathan Sugumaran, and Brian Bakker

Ch. XI         Geo-communication, Web services, and spatial data infrastructure : an approach through conceptual models   Lars Brodersen, and Anders Nielsen

Ch. XII         A data visualization and interpretation system for sensor networks   Fengxian Fan

Ch. XIII        Towards a global real-time enterprise   Peter Ibach, Miroslaw Malek, and Gerrit Tamm

Ch. XIV        Mining critical infrastructure information from municipality data sets : a knowledge-driven approach and its implications   William J. Tolone, Wei-Ning Xiang, and Anita Raja

Ch. XV         Cognitive mapping and GIS for community-based resource identification   Lyn Kathlene

Ch. XVI        Spatial reasoning for human-robot teams   David J. Bruemmer, Douglas A. Few, and Curtis W. Nielsen