2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Systemization of Spatial Information Science for Human and Social Sciences
| Project/Area Number |
10202201
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Review Section |
Humanities and Social Sciences
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
OKABE Atsuyuki The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering, Professor, 大学院・工学系研究科, 教授 (10114050)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IZUMI Takura Nara University, Department of literature, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (30108964)
KOSAKA Hiroyuki Nihon University, College of Humanities and Sciences, Professor, 文理学部, 教授 (60092516)
KANEMOTO Yoshitugu The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Economics, Professor, 大学院・経済学研究科, 教授 (00134198)
SADAHIRO Yukio The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor, 大学院・工学系研究科, 助教授 (10240722)
SHIBASAKI Ryousuke The University of Tokyo, Center for Spatial Information Science, Professor, 空間情報科学研究センター, 教授 (70206126)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2003
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| Keywords | spatial information / spatial data infrastructure / meta data / clearing house / GIS (geographical information systems) / spatial analysis / sharing systems / toolbox |
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| Research Abstract |
The major objectives of this project are : 1)to integrate spatial methods that have been fragmentarily developed in human and social sciences (in particular economics, human geography and archeology), and develop general tools of spatial information science. 2)to develop the spatial data infrastructural systems that widely support researchers who are carrying out studies related to spatial information science.
Through the six year effort of this project, we have established the following fruitful outcomes. 1)We collected and constructed spatial data that are commonly used in human and social sciences, and have established the spatial database in which the spatial data are ready-to-use for researches. 2)We have established the spatial data clearing house by which we can easily search spatial data in the spatial database developed in the above, and we are running it with the Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo. http://chouse.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gcat/editQuery.do 3)We have established the spatial data sharing system that is widely shared with researchers in Japan, and we are running it with the Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo. http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/japanese_2004/research_activities/joint-research.html 4)We have established the web-search system, called FreeSAT, that searches spatial methods that are used for studies in human and social sciences via the Internet. http://okabe.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/okabelab/atsu/freesat/freesat-index.html 5)We have established free-use toolboxes (software), called SANET and SAINF, that provide spatial methods commonly used in human and social sciences. The toolboxes are used more than fifty researches all over the world in one year. http://okabe.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/okabelab/atsu/sanet/sanet-index.html 6)We have signed a contract with a well-known publisher in the GIS field (CRC-Taylor & Francis) to publish a book whose contents are the studies done in this project.
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