Spatial Analysis And GIS (Technical Issues in Geographic Information Systems) - Softcover

 
9780748401048: Spatial Analysis And GIS (Technical Issues in Geographic Information Systems)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0748401040 ISBN 13: 9780748401048
Publisher: CRC Press, 1994

Synopsis

Geographic information systems represent an exciting and rapidly expanding technology via which spatial data may be captured, stored, retrieved, displayed, manipulated and analysed. Applications of this technology include detailed inventories of land use parcels. Spatial patterns of disease, geodemographics, environmental management and macroscale inventories of global resources. The impetus for this book is the relative lack of research into the integration of spatial analysis and GIS, and the potential benefits in developing such an integration. From a GIS perspective, there is an increasing demand for systems that do something other than display and organize data. From a spatial analytical perspective, there are advantages to linking statistical methods and mathematical models to the database and display capabilities of a GIS. Although the GIS may not be absolutely necessary for spatial analysis, it can facilitate such an analysis and moreover provide insights that might otherwise have been missed. The contributions to the book tell us where we are and where we ought to be going. It suggests that the integration of spatial analysis and GIS will stimulate interest in quantitative spatial science, particularly exploratory and visual types of analysis and represents a unique statement of the state-of-the-art issues in integration and interface.

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Synopsis

Two recurring themes in GIS are the potential that GIS technology has for easily accessible and sophisticated analysis of spatially referenced data; and the limited functionality of standard analysis options and their inadequacy for research needs. "Spatial Analysis in GIS" showcases state-of-the-art reviews from acknowledged experts and discusses current problems and prospects in the integration of and interface between spatial analysis and GIS.

About the Author

Fotheringham; S Centre for Advanced Behavioural Science, Stanford,Rogerson; P University of Buffalo, State University of New York,

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Publisher
CRC Press
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0748401040
ISBN 13 
9780748401048
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
296
Editor
Fotheringham S, Rogerson Peter