Theoretical basis and technical methods of cyberspace geography

doi:10.1007/s11442-019-1698-7

	Theoretical basis and technical methods of cyberspace geography
	Gao, Chundong 2; Guo, Qiquan 1; Jiang, Dong 2; Wang, Zhenbo 2; Fang, Chuanglin 2; Hao, Mengmeng 2
刊名	JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES
	2019-12-01
卷号	29 期号:12 页码:1949-1964
关键词	human-land-network relationship cyberspace map cyberspace geographical space visual representation
ISSN号	1009-637X
DOI	10.1007/s11442-019-1698-7
通讯作者	Jiang, Dong(jiangd@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	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 rela-tionships 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.
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography
语种	英语
出版者	SCIENCE PRESS
WOS记录号	WOS:000513451100001
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/132411]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Jiang, Dong
作者单位	1.Minist Publ Secur, Bur 11, Beijing 100741, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gao, Chundong,Guo, Qiquan,Jiang, Dong,et al. Theoretical basis and technical methods of cyberspace geography[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES,2019,29(12):1949-1964.
APA	Gao, Chundong,Guo, Qiquan,Jiang, Dong,Wang, Zhenbo,Fang, Chuanglin,&Hao, Mengmeng.(2019).Theoretical basis and technical methods of cyberspace geography.JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES,29(12),1949-1964.
MLA	Gao, Chundong,et al."Theoretical basis and technical methods of cyberspace geography".JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES 29.12(2019):1949-1964.