Title:
Principles of geographical information systems
Author:
Burrough, P. A.
ISBN:
9780198233664
9780198233657
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Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Physical Description:
xiii, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series:
Spatial information systems
Series Title:
Spatial information systems
General Note:
Rev. ed. of: Principles of geographical information systems for land resources assessment.
Contents:
1. Geographical Information: Society, Science, and Systems -- 2. Data Models and Axioms: Formal Abstractions of Reality -- 3. Geographical Data in the Computer -- 4. Data Input, Verification, Storage, and Output -- 5. Creating Continuous Surfaces from Point Data -- 6. Optimal Interpolation using Geostatistics -- 7. The Analysis of Discrete Entities in Space -- 8. Spatial Analysis using Continuous Fields -- 9. Errors and Quality Control -- 10. Error Propagation in Numerical Modelling -- 11. Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Geographical Objects -- 12. Current Issues and Trends in GIS -- App. 2. A Selection of World Wide Web Geography and GIS Servers -- App. 3. Example Data Sets.
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