【摘要】 本文对于作为地理思维的载体——空间意象的定义及其意义进行了论述， 对于不同类型空间意象的思维模式、含义和实质进行了初步探讨。通过对于空间意象发展的讨论， 揭示了区域地理系统是现代地理学研究地球表层的范式， 并提出应在基于地理分析不变基元——最小空间功能单元体和作为地理区域分析基本功能单元——地理景观研究基础之上， 建立地理信息系统的面向地理分析的空间数据模型。更多还原

【Abstract】 As carriers of geographic thinking and a kind of spatial thinking mode in images, Spatial Mental Images (SMIs) act as a “bridge” between the geographic physical world and the geographic conceptual computational model, providing a method for representing the geographic information and knowledge in images. With a stereoscopic effect on the mind and feeling, SMIs possess self learning capability. Although being born of the geographic perception experiences, SMIs create a much greater effect on the spatial thinking than the geographic perception experiences do. It is just SMIs that extricate geographers from pure sense perception world, and make their geographic thinking consist of two parts: descriptive thinking and thinking in images. Reviewing the development of geographic thinking, SMIs can be divided into four types: geographic region, geographic complex, geographic landscape and regional geographic system. The thinking method, implication and essence of the four kinds of SMIs have been discussed in the article. Though discussions of the development of SMIs, the spatial process research method of geographic landscape and the regional geographic system are expounded. The former embodies the essence of the geographic method research; and the latter, which combines quality and quantity, is the paradigm of modern geography for researching the earth’s surface layer. As a fundamental function cell of regional analysis, geographic landscape is a structural component for building and realizing a regional geographic system. When one geographic landscape being demonstrated, invariable basic cells of geographic region analysis can be applied. As unification of possessing invariable corresponding relationship between space and process, the invariable basic cells are the least unit of spatial function. In order to really and truly establish the geographic analysis oriented data model for geographic information systems (GIS), it is suggested to build Integrated Data Model of Geographic Landscape regarding the invariable basic cells as fundamental cells of organizing geographic information, and to build Distributed Net Model of Geographic Region based on network analysis of regional energy flow in which landscapes are functional nodes.更多还原