摘要
在过去的四十多年里,人类在时空间中的活动与移动吸引了地理学领域的广泛关注。时间地理学是最早研究人类在时空间中的活动与移动模式的分析视角之一。尽管时间地理学在地理研究的很多领域中显示出其有效性,但是直到20世纪90年代中期,很少有研究将其作为一种分析方法。随着与地理相关的个体数据的可获取性以及地理信息系统(GIS)的地理计算能力的增强,时间地理学概念的操作与应用越来越成为可能。本文讨论了基于GIS的地理计算与三维地理可视化方法在时间地理学中的应用。这些方法的有效性可在笔者近期的研究中找到案例。结果表明,GIS为时间地理学概念的应用以及操作方法的未来发展提供了有效的平台。
Over the past 40 years or so,human activities and movements in spacetime have attracted considerable research interest in geography.One of the earliest analytical perspectives for the analysis of human activity patterns and movements in space-time is time geography.Despite the usefulness of time geography in many areas of geographical research,there are very few studies that actually implemented its constructs as analytical methods up to the mid-1990s.With increasing availability of geo-referenced individual-level data and improvement in the geocomputational capabilities of Geographical Information Systems （GIS）,it is now more feasible than ever before to operationalize and implement time-geographic constructs.This paper discusses recent applications of GIS-based geo-computation and three-dimensional （3-D） geo-visualization methods in time-geographic research.The usefulness of these methods is illustrated through examples drawn from the author’s recent studies.The paper attempts to show that GIS provides an effective environment for implementing time-geographic constructs and for the future development of operational methods in time-geographic research.
出处
《国际城市规划》
CSSCI
北大核心
2010年第6期18-26,共9页
Urban Planning International
