The Study of Knowledge Based Geographic Information System

The purpose of this paper is to develop a practical method which integrate the mighty function of GIS with KBS (Knowledge Based System). It emphatically bring forward a prototype of KBGIS. The research is an example of GIS-KBS integration in which the elements of KBS techniques are actually integrated with GIS. The idea of the prototype KBGIS system design was to put the model, data, domain knowledge, and the system's knowledge acquisition and reasoning mechanism and GIS together into an same environment.