On Development and Problems of GeoComputation
地学计算的研究进展与问题分析

This paper is devoted to introducing the concept and ideas of GeoComputation(GC) to Chinese geographers.GC is regarded as the application of computationally intensive approaches based on high performance computing to solving geographical problems and to explaining geographical phenomena.One of the origins of GC is linked to computational science with a principle of the use of models to gain understanding.GC includes all the tools of quantitative geography,but it is not the development of quantitative geogra...