TRENDS IN GEOINFORMATICS

• Main Authors: Thales Sehn Körting, Karine Reis Ferreira, Lúbia Vinhas, Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro, Gilberto Ribeiro de Queiroz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Uberlândia 2018-09-01
• Series: Revista Brasileira de Cartografia
• Online Access: http://www.seer.ufu.br/index.php/revistabrasileiracartografia/article/view/44496

After a thorough review of the past editions of the Brazilian Symposium on GeoInformatics (GEOINFO), from 1999 to 2015, which included more than 300 articles, we have identified some topics pointing to trends in the area of GeoInformatics for the next years of research. As expected, the topics Data/Information, Geographic Information System (GIS), Time and Space were included as the most relevant terms. From this perspective, we understand that research in GeoInformatics for the next years will follow these trends, namely big data, spatiotemporal data analysis, geographical applications for mobile devices, new architectures of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), and spatiotemporal visualisation methods guiding exploratory data analysis.