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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826419703321

Autore

Pumain Denise

Titolo

Geographical modeling : cities and territories / / edited by Denise Pumain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : ISTE Limited

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2020

©2019

ISBN

1-119-68727-6

1-119-68726-8

1-119-68729-2

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Modeling methodologies in social sciences set ; ; Volume 2

Disciplina

910.285

Soggetti

Geographic information systems

MATHEMATICS - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The modeling of cities and territories has progressed greatly in the last 20 years. This is firstly due to geographic information systems, followed by the availability of large amounts of georeferenced data – both on the Internet and through the use of connected objects. In addition, the rise in performance of computational methods for the simulation and exploration of dynamic models has facilitated advancement. Geographical Modeling presents previously unpublished information on the main advances achieved by these new approaches. Each of the six chapters builds a bibliographic review and precisely describes the methods used, highlighting their advantages and discussing their interpretations. They are all illustrated by many examples. The book also explains with clarity the theoretical foundations of geographical analysis, the delicate operations of model selection, and the applications of fractals and scaling laws. These applications include gaining knowledge of the morphology of cities and the organization of urban transport, and finding new methods of building and exploring simulation models and visualizations of data



and results.