Professor Peter A. Burrough (Former Professor of Physical Geography, Rachael A. McDonnell (School of Geography and Unive the Evironment, Christopher D. Lloyd (Department of Geography and Univers Planning

Principles of Geographical Information Systems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Principles of Geographical Information Systems provides a thorough, broad-ranging account of the theory and practice of GIS. It explains why spatial data and the information systems based on them are so important in the modern world for solving a range of practical problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 3rd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 195mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 750g
• ISBN-13: 9780198742845
• ISBN-10: 0198742843
• Artikelnr.: 40444195

Autorenporträt

Burrough, Peter A./ McDonnell, Rachael A./ Lloyd, Christopher D.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Geographical information systems and society
2: Spatial data and their models: formal abstractions of reality
3: Geographical data in the computer
4: Data input and verification
5: Visualization
6: Exploring geographical data
7: Analysis of discrete entities in space
8: Interpolation 1: deterministic and spline-based approaches
9: Interpolation 2: geostatistical approaches
10: Analysis of continuous fields
11: Digital elevation models
12: Space-time modelling and error propagation
13: Fuzzy sets and fuzzy geographical objects
14: GIS, transformations, and future developments