Key concepts & techniques in GIS / / Jochen Albrecht.

• VerfasserIn: Albrecht, Jochen,
• Place / Publishing House: Los Angeles : : SAGE Publications,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (116 pages) :; illustrations, maps
• Notes: Published in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
• Other title: Key concepts and techniques in geographic information systems; 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 --; 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.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [95]-98) and index.
• ISBN: 1412910153; 1412910161 (pbk.); 9781412910163 (pbk.); 9781412910156; 9781849206518
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jochen Albrecht.