GIScience in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Research Agenda Towards Autonomous GIS
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| author | Li, Zhenlong Ning, Huan Gao, Song Janowicz, Krzysztof Li, Wenwen Arundel, Samantha T. Yang, Chaowei Bhaduri, Budhendra Wang, Shaowen Zhu, A-Xing Gahegan, Mark Shekhar, Shashi Ye, Xinyue McKenzie, Grant Cervone, Guido Hodgson, Michael E. |
| author_facet | Li, Zhenlong Ning, Huan Gao, Song Janowicz, Krzysztof Li, Wenwen Arundel, Samantha T. Yang, Chaowei Bhaduri, Budhendra Wang, Shaowen Zhu, A-Xing Gahegan, Mark Shekhar, Shashi Ye, Xinyue McKenzie, Grant Cervone, Guido Hodgson, Michael E. |
| contents | The advent of generative AI exemplified by large language models (LLMs) opens new ways to represent and compute geographic information and transcends the process of geographic knowledge production, driving geographic information systems (GIS) towards autonomous GIS. Leveraging LLMs as the decision core, autonomous GIS can independently generate and execute geoprocessing workflows to perform spatial analysis. In this vision paper, we further elaborate on the concept of autonomous GIS and present a conceptual framework that defines its five autonomous goals, five autonomous levels, five core functions, and three operational scales. We demonstrate how autonomous GIS could perform geospatial data retrieval, spatial analysis, and map making with four proof-of-concept GIS agents. We conclude by identifying critical challenges and future research directions, including fine-tuning and self-growing decision-cores, autonomous modeling, and examining the societal and practical implications of autonomous GIS. By establishing the groundwork for a paradigm shift in GIScience, this paper envisions a future where GIS moves beyond traditional workflows to autonomously reason, derive, innovate, and advance geospatial solutions to pressing global challenges. Meanwhile, as we design and deploy increasingly intelligent geospatial systems, we carry a responsibility to ensure they are developed in socially responsible ways, serve the public good, and support the continued value of human geographic insight in an AI-augmented future. |
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| spellingShingle | GIScience in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Research Agenda Towards Autonomous GIS Li, Zhenlong Ning, Huan Gao, Song Janowicz, Krzysztof Li, Wenwen Arundel, Samantha T. Yang, Chaowei Bhaduri, Budhendra Wang, Shaowen Zhu, A-Xing Gahegan, Mark Shekhar, Shashi Ye, Xinyue McKenzie, Grant Cervone, Guido Hodgson, Michael E. Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technologies Software Engineering The advent of generative AI exemplified by large language models (LLMs) opens new ways to represent and compute geographic information and transcends the process of geographic knowledge production, driving geographic information systems (GIS) towards autonomous GIS. Leveraging LLMs as the decision core, autonomous GIS can independently generate and execute geoprocessing workflows to perform spatial analysis. In this vision paper, we further elaborate on the concept of autonomous GIS and present a conceptual framework that defines its five autonomous goals, five autonomous levels, five core functions, and three operational scales. We demonstrate how autonomous GIS could perform geospatial data retrieval, spatial analysis, and map making with four proof-of-concept GIS agents. We conclude by identifying critical challenges and future research directions, including fine-tuning and self-growing decision-cores, autonomous modeling, and examining the societal and practical implications of autonomous GIS. By establishing the groundwork for a paradigm shift in GIScience, this paper envisions a future where GIS moves beyond traditional workflows to autonomously reason, derive, innovate, and advance geospatial solutions to pressing global challenges. Meanwhile, as we design and deploy increasingly intelligent geospatial systems, we carry a responsibility to ensure they are developed in socially responsible ways, serve the public good, and support the continued value of human geographic insight in an AI-augmented future. |
| title | GIScience in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Research Agenda Towards Autonomous GIS |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technologies Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23633 |