03944nam a2200433 i 4500 ebr10326966 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 090129s2007 cauab ob 001 0 eng|d 1412910153 1412910161 (pbk.) 9781412910163 (pbk.) 9781412910156 9781849206518 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)769927245 G70.212 .A43 2007eb 910.285 23 Albrecht, Jochen, author. Key concepts & techniques in GIS / Jochen Albrecht. Key concepts and techniques in geographic information systems Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2007. 1 online resource (116 pages) : illustrations, maps text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Published in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Includes bibliographical references (pages [95]-98) and index. 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 -- 2.1. Spatial data quality -- 3.2. How to handle data quality issues -- 4. Spatial search -- 4.1. Simple spatial querying -- 5.2. 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. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Geographic information systems. Electronic books. Print version: Albrecht, Jochen. Key concepts & techniques in GIS. Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2007 x, 103 pages ; 25 cm 9781412910156 (OCoLC)ocm62344524 (DLC)10326966 ebrary. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10326966 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 56152 56152