Utilization of Geospatial Information in Daily Life: Expression and Analysis of Dynamic Life Activity (New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 65)

This book focuses on geospatial information in living spaces, providing many examples of its collection and use as well as discussing the problems of how it is used and its future prospects.

Geospatial information science is in the process of evolving and being systematized, with the technical and usage aspects of the real world stimulating each other. This book systematizes the technical aspects of positioning; of geography, which manages and represents what is measured in units of earth coordinates; and of data science, which aims to efficiently express and process geographic information, all by introducing contemporary examples that are systematized with regard to their use in our living spaces. Examples of geospatial information used in almost all aspects of our lives, including urban areas, transportation, disaster prevention, health and medical care, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, culture, ecology, and topography, are presented, along with examples of their use in each area. One of the major features of this book is that it describes the use of data from earthquake disasters that is unique to Japan, as well as the use of open data and personal data in Japan, which is a trend that is gaining attention in many countries.

 In this way the book systematically describes events and circumstances in living spaces that are revealed by the expression and analysis of geospatial data, with case studies and discusses their use in the IoT era.

Yoshihide Sekimoto Professor in the Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo. Received Ph. D. in civil engineering from The University of Tokyo in 2002.Researcher in National Institute for Land, Infrastructure and Management, MLIT from 2002 to 2007. Project Lecturer in the Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo from 2007 to 2010.Project Associate Professor in the Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo from 2010 to 2013.Associate Professor in the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo from 2013 to 2020.Professor in the Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo from 2020.Member of ACM, IEEE, Transportation Research, GIS Association of Japan, Japan Society of Civil Engineers and Japan Society of Traffic Engineers. Laboratory is “Human Centered Urban Informatics” and research interests include large scale data processing of moving objects and infrastructure data management.