Theoretical basis and technical methods of cyberspace geography

Abstract

Cyberspace is a new spatial realm of activities involving both humans and data, and it has become a cornerstone of the national security of every country. A scientific understanding of cyberspace is essential for analyzing cyberspace incidents, governing cyberspace and ensuring cybersecurity. Accordingly, cyberspace has become a new field of geographic research in the Information Age. Against the backdrop of fierce international competition over cyberspace, there has been an urgent need to strengthen research between the fields of geography and cybersecurity, leading to theoretical and methodological innovations that have created the sub-discipline of cyberspace geography. Cyberspace geography (CG) extends geographical research from real spaces to virtual spaces, and its theoretical basis is the evolution of the traditional geographic human-land relationship theory into a human-land-network relationship theory. CG research includes constructing mapping relationships between cyberspace and real space, redefining the traditional geographic concepts of distance and regions for cyberspace, creating a language, models and methodologies for visually representing cyberspace, drawing maps of cyberspace, and researching the principles governing the evolution of cyberspace structures and behaviors. The technical methods of CG include collecting and integrating data on elements of cyberspace, visually representing cyberspace and conducting cyberspace situational and behavioral intelligence awareness. Intelligence awareness covers cyberspace situational status assessments, network hotspot event dissemination and traceability analysis, and network event situational simulations and risk predictions. CG offers new perspectives on the scientific understanding of cyberspace, the development of disciplines such as geography and cybersecurity, and the creation of national cybersecurity prevention and control mechanisms as well as a community of common future in cyberspace.

Voronoi Structure of Space Integration with Applied Roundabout Network

“…Projecting the unbound edges over the Nile set generator-1 of 'Tahrir' to contain the Pyramids plateau with realized access along the Nile Bridge crossing to the Pyramids thoroughfare aided by tramline at Giza suburbs, thus the voronoi intension (Figs. [13][14][15]. Overview of functional voronoi polygons conform the virtual image of roundabout Cairo to be real districts, nodes, landmarks, paths and edges at global resolution of cognitive structure [56].…”

“…Rapid advancement of futurist GIScience shifts the human interaction from the geographic location to the cyberspace of topologic artificial intelligence and visual analytics as well [10]. The process of cyberspace includes spatiotemporal properties to embed in digital space, thus the human interconnections in real geographical space and not only virtual reality [for example 11,12,13,14]. The added visualization and sensing of cyberspace contribute to the state-of-the-art GIScience dynamics such as meeting, shopping, trafficking, infrastructural and pandemic monitoring along multilayered digital datasets of smart and sustainable cities with their governance [15].…”

Mining public behavior patterns from social media data during emergencies: A multidimensional analytical framework considering spatial–temporal–semantic features

“…Furthermore, the interaction between cyberspace and geospatial information has emerged as a new field of geographic research in this information age (Gao et al., 2019). We demonstrated methods for the collection and integration of information on public behavior from cyberspace, the visualization of such information in geographic space, and intelligent analysis of the evolutionary pattern of public behavior by linking the characteristics of cyber and geographic spaces.…”

Mapas E Memes: Será Que “Dá Match” Nas Redes Sociais?

“…Antes de entendermos os conceitos relacionados à Cartografia e aos memes, é necessário realizar um breve debate sobre como chegou-se a este ponto, refletindo acerca de como caracterizar o espaço virtual, como a Geografia se insere nesse debate e como a Cartografia se posiciona em um mundo on-line. Gao et al (2019) destacam que a Geografia do Ciberespaço é uma extensão da conhecida Geografia de Análise do Espaço Real, embora seja necessária uma redefinição dos conceitos geográficos tradicionais, carecendo de pesquisas científicas para compreender os princípios que regem a evolução de estruturas e comportamentos do ciberespaço. Essa discussão já é fomentada há algum tempo, conforme Dodge (1999) retrata: O 'espaço' do ciberespaço tem muitos aspectos que requerem pesquisa e análise do ponto de vista geográfico.…”