Blackwell Companions to Geography: The Handbook of Geographic Information Science

Editor/Author Wilson, John and Fotheringham, A. Stewart
Publication Year: 2007
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $134.95
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $202.42
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0795-2
Category: Geography
Image Count: 214
Book Status: Available
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This Handbook is an essential reference and a guide to the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Science. Designed for students and researchers who want an in-depth treatment of the subject, including background information. Comprises substantial essays, each written by a recognized expert in a particular area. Covers the full spectrum of research in GIS. Surveys the increasing number of applications of GIS. Predicts how GIS is likely to evolve in the near future.

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Table of Contents

  • List of Contributors
  • Geographic Information Science: An Introduction
  • Part I Data Issues
  • Introduction to Part I
  • 1 The Availability of Geographic Data: The Current Technical and Institutional Environment - David J. Cowen
  • 2 Social Data - David J. Martin
  • 3 Remote Sensing - Brian G. Lees
  • 4 Spatialization - André Skupin and Sara I. Fabrikant
  • 5 Uncertainty in Spatial Databases - Ashley Morris
  • 6 On the Identification of Uncertainties in Spatial Data and Their Quantification with Probability Distribution Functions - James D. Brown and Gerald B. M. Heuvelink
  • Part II Database Trends and Challenges
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 7 Object-Oriented Database Management Systems - Shashi Shekhar and Ranga Raju Vatsavai
  • 8 Adding the Z Dimension - Michael F. Hutchinson
  • 9 Adding Time into Geographic Information System Databases - May Yuan
  • 10 Geospatial Data Integration - Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi
  • Part III Visualization
  • Introduction to Part III
  • 11 Mapping in a Digital Age - William E. Cartwright
  • 12 Generalization of Spatial Databases - William A. Mackaness
  • 13 Geographic Information Systems and Surfaces - Nicholas J. Tate, Peter F. Fisher, and David J. Martin
  • 14 Fuzzy Classification and Mapping - Vincent B. Robinson
  • 15 Rule-Based Mapping - A-Xing Zhu
  • 16 Multivariate Geovisualization - Mark Gahegan
  • 17 Virtual Reality in Geographic Information Systems - Michael Batty
  • Part IV Knowledge Elicitation
  • Introduction to Part IV
  • 18 Inference and Spatial Data - Chris Brunsdon
  • 19 Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Harvey J. Miller
  • 20 The Geospatial Semantic Web - Frederico Fonseca
  • Part V Spatial Analysis
  • Introduction to Part V
  • 21 Quantitative Methods and Geographic Information Systems - Martin E. Charlton
  • 22 Spatial Cluster Analysis - Geoffrey M. Jacquez
  • 23 Terrain Analysis - Yongxin Deng, John P. Wilson, and John C. Gallant
  • 24 Dynamic Modeling - Jochen Albrecht
  • Part VI Geographic Information Systems and Society
  • Introduction to Part VI
  • 25 Institutional Geographic Information Systems and Geographic Information Partnering - David L. Tulloch
  • 26 Participatory Geographic Information Systems - Daniel Weiner and Trevor M. Harris
  • 27 Geographic Information Systems and Participatory Decision Making - Piotr Jankowski and Timothy L. Nyerges
  • 28 Surveys of People and Place - Peter H. Dana
  • 29 Geographic Information Science, Personal Privacy, and the Law - George C. H. Cho
  • 30 Geographic Information Systems in Education - Joseph J. Kerski
  • Part VII Future Trends and Challenges
  • Introduction to Part VII
  • 31 Web-based Geographic Information Systems - Christopher B. Jones and Ross S. Purves
  • 32 Location-based Services and Geographic Information Systems - Allan J. Brimicombe
  • 33 Geographic Information Science: The Grand Challenges - Michael F. Goodchild
  • 34 Geographic Information Science: Where Next? - Andreas Reuter and Alexander Zipf