The handbook of geographic information science / / edited by John P. Wilson and A. Stewart Fotheringham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910145696603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2008; ©2008
• ISBN: 1-78402-098-2; 1-281-06901-9; 9786611069018; 0-470-69081-X; 0-470-76653-0
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 634 p. : ill
• Collana: Blackwell Companions to Geography ; ; Volume 7
• Classificazione: 74.03
• Disciplina: 910.285
• Soggetti: Geography - Data processing; Geographic information systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Geographic Information Science: An Introduction -- Part I Data Issues -- 1 The Availability of Geographic Data: The Current Technical and Institutional Environment -- 2 Social Data -- 3 Remote Sensing -- 4 Spatialization -- 5 Uncertainty in Spatial Databases -- 6 On the Identification of Uncertainties in Spatial Data and Their Quantification with Probability Distribution Functions -- Part II Database Trends and Challenges -- 7 Object-Oriented Database Management Systems -- 8 Adding the Z Dimension -- 9 Adding Time into Geographic Information System Databases -- 10 Geospatial Data Integration -- Part III Visualization -- 11 Mapping in a Digital Age -- 12 Generalization of Spatial Databases -- 13 Geographic Information Systems and Surfaces -- 14 Fuzzy Classification and Mapping -- 15 Rule-Based Mapping -- 16 Multivariate Geovisualization -- 17 Virtual Reality in Geographic Information Systems -- Part IV Knowledge Elicitation -- 18 Inference and Spatial Data -- 19 Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery -- 20 The Geospatial Semantic Web -- Part V Spatial Analysis ; -- 21 Quantitative Methods and Geographic Information Systems -- 22 Spatial Cluster Analysis -- 23 Terrain Analysis -- 24 Dynamic Modeling -- Part VI Geographic Information Systems and Society -- 25 Institutional Geographic Information Systems and Geographic Information Partnering -- 26 Participatory Geographic Information Systems -- 27 Geographic Information Systems and Participatory Decision Making -- 28 Surveys of People and Place -- 29 Geographic Information Science, Personal Privacy, and the Law -- 30 Geographic Information Systems in Education -- Part VII Future Trends and Challenges -- 31 Web-based Geographic Information Systems -- 32 Location-based Services and Geographic Information Systems.; 33 Geographic Information Science: The Grand Challenges -- 34 Geographic Information Science: Where Next? -- Index.