Key concepts & techniques in GIS / Jochen Albrecht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albrecht, Jochen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographic information systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 103 p.) : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Key concepts and techniques in geographic information systems

Key concepts and techniques in GIS

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Showing what can be done with geographic information systems data (GIS), this text is an applied primer on some of the key concepts and techniques in the field.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Published in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [95]-98) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612262432

1-78034-379-5

1-282-26243-2

0-85702-444-2

1-84920-651-1

9780857024442

OCLC:

491368726