Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-222) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The relationship of space and time -- 1.2 Targets and contents of the book -- 1.2.1 What this book is about -- 1.2.2 What this book is not about -- 1.2.3 How to use this book -- 1.2.4 Structure and organization of the book -- 1.3 Further Reading -- 1.3.1 Introductions in GIS and reference books -- 1.3.2 Data capturing, data management, database technology -- and data storage -- 1.3.3 Land survey, cadastre, remote sensing and GPS -- 1.3.4 Map projections and reference systems -- 1.3.5 Data models, topology and spatial queries -- 1.3.6 Spatial statistics, spatial analysis and spatial modelling -- 1.3.7 Data warehousing and decision support systems -- 1.3.8 Visualisation techniques, cartography and Web-GIS -- 1.3.9 GIS project management and applications of GIS -- 1.3.10 Manuals and programming language handbooks -- 1.3.11 Philosophical, social, political and legal aspects of GIS -- 2 Conceptualising real world entities in spatio-temporal GIS -- 2.1 The geographer's perspective on space and time -- 2.2 Modelling the real world in Geographic Information Systems -- 2.2.1 Steps in building a GIS -- 2.2.2 Stages of abstraction in modelling a GIS -- 2.2.3 Conceptualising the real world in GIS -- 2.2.4 Geo-coding -- 2.2.5 Geo-referencing -- 2.3 The representation of space in GIS -- 2.3.1 Vector data models -- 2.3.2 Raster data models -- 2.4 Integration of external models in Geographic Information Systems -- 2.4.1 The dasymetric ma