Mark Altaweel
Multi-view GIS
Multi-view GIS provides different perspectives of space and time for a given geographic area.
Real-time Collaborative GIS
Real-time collaborative GIS (RCGIS) enables users, from domain experts to common citizens, to collaborate on given issues and share data easily through a distributed framework.
4D GIS and Prediction
For the last two decades, GIS technologies have increasingly been used to incorporate not only spatial relationships but also analyzing and visualizing space across time. Spatial-temporal GIS, or 4D GIS, has, in particular, become essential in areas where GIS is needed for predicting dimensions across time.
GIS and NoSQL Databases
Relational databases present some limitations to scaling, preventing or limiting the applicability of big data and real-time data problems utilized within GIS. More and more GIS software companies and developers are adopting NoSQL formats where data retrieval is generally faster and easier to structure. NoSQL also facilitates analysis and integration within a variety of tools, which is why open source GIS has proven to be the most useful arena for NoSQL databases.
GIS and Natural Language Processing
Within GIS, natural language processing can be utilized for spatial understanding of where events, places, or people may relate to a given phenomenon.