GIS and GeoComputation: Innovations in GIS 7 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748409289 ISBN 13: 9780748409280

Publisher: CRC Press, 2000

Synopsis

Geographic Information Systems are computer-based systems for geographic analysis. They have been developed over the past twenty five years and are now widely used. A recent research direction has been the development of geocomputation , representing computer-based geographical analysis beyond the traditional bounds of GIS. In geocomputation, the computer is the research environment itself, not merely a tool. A key to geocomputation it that highly powered computing can be used with sufficient data to avaid traditional parametric approaches altogether. The term geocomputation includes the use of computer-based techniques such as artificial neural networks, genetic programming and fuzzy logic, but in a geographical context. This new book in the prestigious Innovations in GIS series, presents the latest research in geocomputational techniques as presented in the GIS UK Annual Conference.

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About the Author

Peter Atkinson studied Theology at St. John's College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1979. Previously Residentiary Canon and Chancellor of Chichester Cathedral, Peter Atkinson is now the Dean of Worcester.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748409289
• ISBN 13: 9780748409280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Atkinson Peter