ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: This paper serves as a brief introduction to this book, which includes 21 peer-reviewed papers selected from the joint workshop of ISPRS WGII/1, 2, 7 and WG VII/6 on spatial-temporal modelling, spatial reasoning, analysis, data mining and data fusion (STM’05), held from 27 to 29 August 2005 at Peking University, China. The background to this workshop is presented and the developments in spatial modelling, spatio-temporal modelling, spatio-temporal analysis, and spatial reasoning and data mining are briefly reviewed and the contents of the book are introduced.
