عنوان

Key concepts & techniques in GIS

1412910153 9781412910 1412910161 9781412910

28346

eng

Key concepts & techniques in GIS

/ Jochen Albrecht

Los Angeles [i.e. Thousand Oaks, Calif.]

: SAGE Publications,

, 2007.

x, 103 p

. ill., maps 25 cm.

Language: انگلیسی

Print

ng

Includes bibliographical references (p. [95]-98) and index.

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 --2.2Conversion --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. Thequery 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. Thebest 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 --10.1.1Inverse 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. Themodifiable area unit problem (MAUP) --10.2.4.Geographic relationships --11.Geocomputation -- 11.1Fuzzy 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.

Geographic information systems

Albrecht, Jochen.

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