Key concepts & techniques in GIS [electronic resource] / Jochen Albrecht.

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Bibliographic Details
Published: Los Angeles [i.e. Thousand Oaks, Calif.] : SAGE Publications, 2007.
Online Access:
Main Author:
Albrecht, Jochen
Subjects:
Geographic information systems.
Format: Electronic eBook
Key concepts & techniques in GIS
Table of 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
  • 11.3. Genetic algorithms
  • 11.4. Cellular automata
  • 11.5. Agent-based modeling systems
  • 12. Epilogue : Four-dimensional modeling
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index.

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