image: The development of GIS and artificial intelligence has progressed through three main stages: the early combination of GIS and automation (1960–1980), the initial integration of GIS and machine learning (1990–2010), and the era of deep learning and big data-driven intelligent GIS (2010–2020).
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The Journal of Geo-information Science published an online article on research led by Bin Luo ,Wenhao Liu and Jin Wu (State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences), recently. This research addresses the limitation of traditional Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which cannot achieve bidirectional interaction between physical and informational spaces in rapidly changing and complex three-dimensional geographic environments. The team innovatively proposed the "Geographic Intelligent Agent" framework, which integrates embodied intelligence, self-supervised learning, and multimodal large models. Through the collaboration of three core modules—multimodal perception, intelligent hub, and action manipulation—GIS evolves from an information-processing tool to an autonomous spatial intelligence system, significantly enhancing its decision-making capabilities in complex geographic environments.
Based on the "Geographic Intelligent Agent" framework, the research team developed the virtual digital human "EarthSage" as a prototype, demonstrating the practical effectiveness of the geographic intelligent agent. With natural language commands, users can automatically call relevant data, perform autonomous intelligent geospatial analysis, and generate standardized geographic data, greatly lowering the professional threshold. The introduction of the "Geographic Intelligent Agent" marks a key step in the transformation of GIS from a static information-processing tool to a system with autonomous learning, real-time adaptation, and dynamic decision-making capabilities, paving the way for true geographic-scale spatial intelligence.
For more details, please refer to the original article:
From Geographic Information System to Geographic Intelligent Agent.
https://www.sciengine.com/JGIS/doi/10.12082/dqxxkx.2025.240658
（If you want to see the English version of the full text, please click on the “iFLYTEK Translation” in the article page.）
Article Title
From Geographic Information System to Geographic Agent
Article Publication Date
25-Jan-2025