Albrecht, Jochen, <br/><br/>
Key concepts & techniques in GIS /  [electronic resource] 
 Key concepts and techniques in geographic information systems 
Jochen Albrecht. 
 - 1 online resource (116 pages) :  illustrations, maps 
<br/><br/> Published in Thousand Oaks, Calif. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages [95]-98) and index. 
<br/><br/> List of figures --  Preface --  Creating digital data --  Spatial data --  Sampling --  Remote sensing --  Global positioning systems --  Digitizing and scanning --  attribute component of geographic data --  Accessing existing data --  Data exchange --  Conversion --  Metadata --  Matching geometries (projection and coordinate systems) --  Geographic web services --  Handling uncertainty --  Spatial data quality --  How to handle data quality issues --  Spatial search --  Simple spatial querying --  Conditional querying --  query process --  Selection --  Background material : Boolean logic --  Spatial relationships --  Recoding --  Relationships between measurements --  Relationships between features --  Combining spatial data --  Overlay --  Spatial Boolean logic --  Buffers --  Buffering in spatial search --  Combining operations --  Thiessen polygons --  1.  1.1.  1.2.  1.3.  1.4.  1.5.  1.6. The  2.  2.1.  2.2  2.3.  2.4.  2.5.  3.  2.1.  3.2.  4.  4.1.  5.2.  4.3. The  4.4.  4.5.  5.  5.1.  5.2.  5.3.  6.  6.1.  6.2.  6.3.  6.4.  6.5.  6.6.  Location-allocation --  best way --  Gravity model --  Location modeling --  Allocation modeling --  Map algebra --  Raster GIS --  Local functions --  Focal functions --  Zonal functions --  Global functions --  Map algebra scripts --  Terrain modeling --  Triangulated irregular networks (TINs) --  Visibility analysis --  Digital elevation and terrain models --  Hydrological modeling --  Spatial statistics --  Geo-statistics --  Inverse distance weighting --  Global and local polynomials --  Splines --  Kriging --  Spatial analysis --  Geometric descriptors --  Spatial patterns --  modifiable area unit problem (MAUP) --  Geographic relationships --  Geocomputation --  Fuzzy reasoning --  Neural networks --  Genetic algorithms --  Cellular automata --  Agent-based modeling systems --  Epilogue : Four-dimensional modeling --  Glossary --  References --  Index.  7.  7.1. The  7.2.  7.3.  7.4.  8.  8.1.  8.2.  8.3.  8.4.  8.5.  8.6.  9.  9.1.  9.2.  9.3.  9.4.  10.  10.1.  10.1.1  10.1.2.  10.1.3.  10.1.4.  10.2.  10.2.1.  10.2.2.  10.2.3. The  10.2.4.  11.  11.1  11.2.  11.3.  11.4.  11.5.  12. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781849206518 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Geographic information systems.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>G70.212  / .A43 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>910.285