Research on Mobile GIS: Characteristics, Frame and Key Technologies

Author

Chen Guoliang ; Wang Yunjia ; Wang Jian

Author_Institution

Sch. of Environ. Sci. & Spatial Inf., China Univ. of Min. & Technol., Xuzhou, China

fYear

2010

fDate

20-22 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

With the rapid development of internet and communication technologies, mobile computing has become a main computational method nowadays, and geographic information system based on mobile computing is the extension of mobile computing in the spatial information field. It can be forecasted that Mobile GIS will become the next luminescent point of GIS industry. This paper set forth the concept of mobile GIS comparing with traditional GIS, analyzed the frame structure of mobile GIS, and discussed the key technologies of Mobile GIS, including wireless communication technology, WAP technology, mobile database technology, mobile geographical information expression technology and mobile location solution.

Keywords

geographic information systems; mobile computing; GIS industry; Internet; WAP technology; geographic information system; mobile GIS; mobile computing; mobile database technology; mobile geographical information expression technology; wireless communication technology; Geographic Information Systems; Internet; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Servers; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet Technology and Applications, 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5142-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5143-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAPP.2010.5566438

Filename

5566438