Geoscience

 
GeoFocus, International Review of Geographical Information Science and Technology

The processes involved in the production and spreading of scientific knowledge are currently undergoing major changes. New technologies have not only improved the ratio of successful completions of investigative research, but have also enabled faster dissemination of these findings. Since the first great discoveries and explorations, the discipline of Geography has always played an important role in bringing societies and people together, and therefore,cannot remain incognizant of the new challenges ahead: the need for advances in the search for and the diffusion of scientific knowledge in a more participative, flexible, responsive, and equitable way.

In this context, GeoFocus fully intends to be an open, free and specialized scientific journal. Topics cover theoretical, methodological and technical contributions on different aspects of Geographical Information Science, understood as the interface between geographic knowledge and geographic information technologies. Specifically, the topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

- Acquisition, analysis and modelling of geographic data
- GIS
- GPS
- Remote Sensing
- Spatial Decision Support Systems
- Data quality
- GIT Applications
- GIT Education

GeoFocus aims to:

* Act as a forum for the discussion of contributions from both academia and industry adjudged adequate in both quality and rigor concerning research and/or developments in Geographic Information Technologies,
* Stimulate advance in methods and techniques related to GIT through an independent, rigorous and anonymous selection by peer review of articles for publication.
* Make known experiences, projects and applied techniques of high quality so these findings may be passed on expeditiously to the economic and social world.
* Operate as a true hub for the exchange of scientific knowledge, with special emphasis regarding contributions by the Portuguese- and Spanish- speaking communities
* Provide free online access to scientific advances.
* Overcome the problems related to scientific publication by traditional methods.

GeoFocus is sponsored by the Working Group on Geographical Information Technologies (Grupo de Tecnologías de la Información Geográfica) of the Spanish Association of Geographers and receives institutional and technical support from the Spanish Network for R+D (RedIRIS).

GeoFocus publishes one annual issue and maintains open access to all papers in past issues. Standard contents are:

1. Editorial
2. Research papers
3. Reports and reviews
4. Resources

If you are interested on this field, we invite you to be a part of GeoFocus, either by submitting your contributions or by reviewing the work of others. Most of all, we encourage you to share with us this exciting learning adventure.