Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Okabe, Atsuyuki

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume contributors use Geographical Information Systems to reassess both historic & contemporary Asian countries & traditionally Islamic areas. Subjects covered include local society in 18th century South India, location of abandoned villages & the spatial structure of commercial areas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134320431
• Artikelnr.: 38251439

Autorenporträt

Atsuyuki Okabe is Professor at the Department of Urban Engineering and Director of the Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introducing Geographic Information Systems in
Islamic Area Studies Part 1: Spatial Data Construction and a Method for
Preliminary Analysis 2. Constructing Spatial Databases from Old Paper
Documents 3. Construction Spatial Databases from Old Maps: A Case in
Historical Studies 4. An Exploratory Method for Discovering Qualitatively
Changed Areas Using Low Resolution Remotely Sensed Data: A Case in the
Persian Gulf Area during 1982-1993 5. Estimating Land Use using High
Resolution Remotely Sensed Data (Landsat TM): A Case Study in Ponneri,
India Part 2: Regional Analysis 6. Islamic Rule and Local Society in
Eighteenth-Century South India 7. Modelling the Spatial Structure of the
Administrative System in Ponneri, India, during the late Eighteenth-Century
8. The Ferghana Project: Central Asian Area Studies with GIS 9. The Use of
GIS to Locate Abandoned Villages Listed in the Temettuat Registers of
Balikesire County, Anatolia Part 3: Urban Analysis 10. The Spatial
Structure of Commercial Areas in Turkey and other Islamic Countries 11. The
Water Supplies and Public Fountains in Istanbul Part 4: Network Analysis
with Space Syntax 12. Application of GIS to Network Analysis:
Characterization of Traditional Turkish Urban Street Networks 13. A
Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Street Network in Istanbul: An Extension
of Space Syntax using GIS 14. The Space Occupied by Marketplaces and their
Societies in the Islamic World - With Particular Reference to Isfahan and
Istanbul Part 5: Three-Dimensional Spatial Analysis 15. Three-Dimensional
View Analysis using GIS: The Locational Tendency of Mosques in Bursa,
Turkey 16. An Analysis on the Visibility of Minarets in Sana's Old City of
Yemen Index