Spatio-temporal approaches : geographic objects and change process / Helene Mathian, Lena Sanders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathian, Hélène, author.

Sanders, Léna, author.

Series:

Focus GIS and territorial intelligence series.

Focus GIS and Territorial Intelligence Series, 2051-249X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spatial analysis (Statistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : ISTE Ltd/John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Spatio-temporal Approaches presents a well-built set of concepts, methods and approaches, in order to represent and understand the evolution of social and environmental phenomena within the space. It is basedon examples in human geography and archeology (which will enable us to explore questions regarding various temporalities) and tackles social and environmental phenomena. Chapter 1 discusses how to apprehend change: objects, attributes, relations, processes.Chapter 2 introduces multiple points of view about modeling and the authors try to shed a new light on the different, but complementar

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1: Building Objects in Time; 1.1. Different points of view on ontology; 1.1.1. Defining ontology; 1.1.2. Qualification of the objects from an ontological perspective: "bona fide" versus "fiat" objects; 1.1.3. Specification of ontologies in the field of spatial analysis and geographical sciences: objects versus fields; 1.1.4. An example of empirical objects' construction: the case of cities; 1.2. Locating spatial objects in time; 1.2.1. Objects' formalization in time: "endurant" and "perdurant" entities of philosophers

1.2.2. From change to objects' life1.3. Conclusion; 2: From Empirical Questioning to Spatio-temporal Modeling; 2.1. From the conception of entities to their analysis of responding to thematic issues; 2.1.1. Building the spatio-temporal objects from the empirical observations (challenge 1); 2.1.2. Representing and exploring change and movement (challenge 2); 2.1.3. Analyzing the evolution of statistical and spatial relationships (challenge 3); 2.1.4. Identifying the underlying processes of change: simulation and scenario testing (challenge 4)

2.2. Challenges and models: the possible misunderstandings2.3. Application examples; 2.3.1. Cities' dynamics: construction and follow-up of composite objects in time; 2.3.1.1. Step 1: to build a set of objects coherent in space and time: a harmonized database of European cities; 2.3.1.2. Step 2: to explore the dynamics of cities; 2.3.1.3. Step 3: to analyze the differences in the evolution of cities: a trajectories' typology; 2.3.1.4. Step 4: to simulate the dynamics of a system of cities

2.3.2. Distribution of urban functions in the intra-urban space: construction of spatio-temporal functional objects2.3.2.1. Step 1: to build a coherent set of functional objects in space and time; 2.3.2.2. Step 2: to explore the temporalities; 2.3.3. Evaluating the impact of mobile objects on a spatial support; 2.3.3.1. Step 1: construction of the entities (objects and properties) from the empirical data: identifying the "places of animal frequentation" from GPS readings, and characterizing the change in vegetation cover from satellite images

2.3.3.2. Step 2: to represent and to explore herds' movements and the changes in the vegetation cover2.3.3.3. Step 3: to analyze the relationship between the intensity of animal frequentation and the change in vegetation cover; 2.3.3.4. Step 4: to identify the processes linking animal behaviors and the change in the vegetation cover; 2.3.4.1. Step 1: construction of the objects and their properties from a multilevel perspective

2.3.4.2. Step 2: representing and exploring the pupils' choices of school and the consequences of these choices on the social composition of schools and their evolution

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118649237

1118649230

9781118649213

1118649214

9781118649220

1118649222

OCLC:

894791374