Key concepts & techniques in GIS /
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| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles :
SAGE Publications,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Preface
- 1. Creating digital data
- 1.1. Spatial data
- 1.2. Sampling
- 1.3. Remote sensing
- 1.4. Global positioning systems
- 1.5. Digitizing and scanning
- 1.6. The attribute component of geographic data
- 2. Accessing existing data
- 2.1. Data exchange
- 2.2 Conversion
- 2.3. Metadata
- 2.4. Matching geometries (projection and coordinate systems)
- 2.5. Geographic web services
- 3. Handling uncertainty
- 2.1. Spatial data quality
- 3.2. How to handle data quality issues
- 4. Spatial search
- 4.1. Simple spatial querying
- 5.2. Conditional querying
- 4.3. The query process
- 4.4. Selection
- 4.5. Background material : Boolean logic
- 5. Spatial relationships
- 5.1. Recoding
- 5.2. Relationships between measurements
- 5.3. Relationships between features
- 6. Combining spatial data
- 6.1. Overlay
- 6.2. Spatial Boolean logic
- 6.3. Buffers
- 6.4. Buffering in spatial search
- 6.5. Combining operations
- 6.6. Thiessen polygons
- 7. Location-allocation
- 7.1. The best way
- 7.2. Gravity model
- 7.3. Location modeling
- 7.4. Allocation modeling
- 8. Map algebra
- 8.1. Raster GIS
- 8.2. Local functions
- 8.3. Focal functions
- 8.4. Zonal functions
- 8.5. Global functions
- 8.6. Map algebra scripts
- 9. Terrain modeling
- 9.1. Triangulated irregular networks (TINs)
- 9.2. Visibility analysis
- 9.3. Digital elevation and terrain models
- 9.4. Hydrological modeling
- 10. Spatial statistics
- 10.1. Geo-statistics
- 10.1.1 Inverse distance weighting
- 10.1.2. Global and local polynomials
- 10.1.3. Splines
- 10.1.4. Kriging
- 10.2. Spatial analysis
- 10.2.1. Geometric descriptors
- 10.2.2. Spatial patterns
- 10.2.3. The modifiable area unit problem (MAUP)
- 10.2.4. Geographic relationships
- 11. Geocomputation
- 11.1 Fuzzy reasoning
- 11.2. Neural networks
- 11.3. Genetic algorithms
- 11.4. Cellular automata
- 11.5. Agent-based modeling systems
- 12. Epilogue : Four-dimensional modeling
- Glossary
- References
- Index.