文献类型：会议论文

英文题名：The Ontology of Virtual Geographical Environment

作者：Liu, Kai[1];Hao, Wei[1];Qin, Yaochen[2]

第一作者：刘凯

通讯作者：Liu, K[1]

机构：[1]Henan Univ Finance & Econ, Dept Resource & Environm Sci, Zhengzhou, Peoples R China;[2]Henan Univ, Coll Environm & Planning, Kaifeng, Peoples R China

第一机构：河南财经政法大学资源与环境学院

通讯机构：[1]corresponding author), Henan Univ Finance & Econ, Dept Resource & Environm Sci, Zhengzhou, Peoples R China.|[104848]河南财经政法大学资源与环境学院;[10484]河南财经政法大学;

会议论文集：18th International Conference on Geoinformatics

会议日期：JUN 18-20, 2010

会议地点：Peking Univ, Beijing, PEOPLES R CHINA

主办单位：Peking Univ

语种：英文

外文关键词：Virtual geographic environment; Ontology; Axiology; Digitization

摘要：After the concept of virtual geographical environment (VGE) has been initiated, related issues to it are becoming research hotspots in geographic information science. It shows its comprehensive application prospects in different fields to human; even in geography some celebrated scholars think that VGE is becoming new generation language after verbal language, maps, GIS. The concept initiation of VGE is just more than ten years, many theoretical and technical issues related is yet to be probed into, so profound reflect on VGE from a philosophical perspective to explore its ontological issues will be of significance. In this paper we discuss several questions of ontology of VGE, and probe into some issues related to it such as methodology, axiology and so on. VGE is a "being", but is different to real geographical environment as a "being", it is a "being" we call "artificial information field" and is of some cognition characteristics of real geographic environment. VGE has a close connection with the digital technology and is a "digital geographic environment" in fact. The sense of reality in VGE is different to the sense of reality in actual geographical environment from an ontological perspective and is of dependence on techniques and is not holographic like that human perceive the real nature geographical environment. Practice in VGE is not of ontological equality to practice in real geographical environment. VGE is of philosophical limitations, and the value of VGE remains yet to be not sure and to be measured.