Abstract
The Spatially Integration of Data & Analysis for China Studies
Track: Teaching with GIS Across the Curriculum
Authors: Shuming Bao
With the announcement of open information policy by the Chinese government, there have been lots of development in government statistics, Census data, and GIS data. Those information provide rich reference for the study of population, economy, social environment and their relative changes in China. The primary challenges under rapid data growth include how to efficiently integrate those space-time data, provide methodology for different research targets, and promote their applications in different fields. This report will present some recent development of spatial intelligence technologies for spatial data integration, data analysis, as well as their applications. It will demonstrate how space-time data of different formats and sources can be integrated, visualized, analyzed and reported in a web based system. Some applications in population and regional development, disaster assessment, environment and health, cultural and religious studies, and household surveys will be discussed for China and global studies.