Beyond Mapping: Concepts, Algorithms, and Issues in GIS

ISBN-13: 9780470236765 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 268 str.

Joseph K. Berry

Opis

This book discusses maps as data with data structure implications; roving windows; spatial data modeling and management; assessing variability, shape, and pattern of map features; overlaying maps; cost-benefit analysis; algorithms involved in slope, distance, and connectivity; and cartographic and spatial modeling.

Spis treści

Maps as Data and Data Structure Implications.

Measuring Effective Distance and Connectivity.

Roving Windows: Assessment of Neighborhood Characteristics.

What GIS Is and Isn′t: Spatial Data Mapping, Management, Modeling, and More.

Assessing Variability, Shape, and Pattern of Map Features.

Overlaying Maps and Characterizing Error Propagation.

Overlaying Maps and Summarizing the Results.

Scoping GIS: What to Consider.

Slope, Distance, and Connectivity: Their Algorithms.

Cartographic and Spatial Modeling.

Epilog.

Appendices.

Glossary.

Index.