Key concepts & techniques in GIS / / Jochen Albrecht.
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Place / Publishing House: | Los Angeles : : SAGE Publications,, 2007. |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (116 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
Notes: | Published in Thousand Oaks, Calif. |
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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. |
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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. |