Format:
1 online resource (106 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849206518
Content:
"Albrecht's slim volume is an important contribution to users and teachers of geographic information systems. It is a distillation of the core functions available in contemporary workstation GIS systems, functions likely to become common on Web mapping systems like Google Earth and MS Virtual Earth. Well written and up-to-date, this book is an excellent complement to the voluminous documentation provided by software and solutions vendors." -CHOICE Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is a concise overview of the fundamental ideas that inform Geographic Information Science. It provides detailed descriptions of the concepts and techniques that anyone using GIS software must fully understand to analyze spatial data.
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- 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 -- 3.1 Spatial data quality -- 3.2 How to handle data quality issues -- 4 Spatial Search -- 4.1 Simple spatial querying -- 4.2 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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781412910156
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Albrecht, Jochen Key concepts & techniques in GIS Los Angeles, Calif. [u.a.] : SAGE, 2007 ISBN 1412910153
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781412910163
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1412910153
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781412910156
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
,
Earth Sciences
,
Geography
Keywords:
Geoinformationssystem
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