TY  - BOOK
AU  - Albrecht,Jochen
TI  - Key concepts & techniques in GIS
AV  - G70.212 .A43 2007
U1  - 910.285 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Geographic information systems
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Published in Thousand Oaks, Calif; Includes bibliographical references (pages [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 --; 2.2; 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
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