Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems

ISBN-13: 9780415665872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 312 str.

Atsuyuki Okabe

Opis

In this volume contributors use Geographical Information Systems to reassess both historic & contemporary Asian countries & traditionally Islamic areas. Subjects covered include local society in 18th century South India, location of abandoned villages & the spatial structure of commercial areas.

Spis treści

Preface  Acknowledgements  1. Introducing Geographic Information Systems in Islamic Area Studies  Part 1: Spatial Data Construction and a Method for Preliminary Analysis  2. Constructing Spatial Databases from Old Paper Documents  3. Construction Spatial Databases from Old Maps: A Case in Historical Studies  4. An Exploratory Method for Discovering Qualitatively Changed Areas Using Low Resolution Remotely Sensed Data: A Case in the Persian Gulf Area during 1982-1993  5. Estimating Land Use using High Resolution Remotely Sensed Data (Landsat TM): A Case Study in Ponneri, India  Part 2: Regional Analysis  6. Islamic Rule and Local Society in Eighteenth-Century South India  7. Modelling the Spatial Structure of the Administrative System in Ponneri, India, during the late Eighteenth-Century  8. The Ferghana Project: Central Asian Area Studies with GIS  9. The Use of GIS to Locate Abandoned Villages Listed in the Temettuat Registers of Balikesire County, Anatolia  Part 3: Urban Analysis  10. The Spatial Structure of Commercial Areas in Turkey and other Islamic Countries  11. The Water Supplies and Public Fountains in Istanbul  Part 4: Network Analysis with Space Syntax  12. Application of GIS to Network Analysis: Characterization of Traditional Turkish Urban Street Networks  13. A Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Street Network in Istanbul: An Extension of Space Syntax using GIS  14. The Space Occupied by Marketplaces and their Societies in the Islamic World - With Particular Reference to Isfahan and Istanbul  Part 5: Three-Dimensional Spatial Analysis  15. Three-Dimensional View Analysis using GIS: The Locational Tendency of Mosques in Bursa, Turkey  16. An Analysis on the Visibility of Minarets in Sana's Old City of Yemen  Index

O autorze

Atsuyuki Okabe is Professor at the Department of Urban Engineering and Director of the Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo.