Jochen Albrecht

Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Albrecht's slim volume is an important contribution to users and teachers of geographic information systems. It is a distillation of the core functions available in contemporary workstation GIS systems, functions likely to become common on Web mapping systems like Google Earth and MS Virtual Earth. Well written and up-to-date, this book is an excellent complement to the voluminous documentation provided by software and solutions vendors."

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Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is a concise overview of the fundamental ideas that inform Geographic Information Science. It provides detailed descriptions of the concepts and techniques that anyone using GIS software must fully understand to analyze spatial data.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446230732
• Artikelnr.: 43828779

Autorenporträt

Jochen Albrecht is Associate Professor, Deputy Department Chair, and GIS Certificate Adviser in the Department of Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York

Inhaltsangabe

Creating Digital Data
Accessing Existing Data
Handling Uncertainty
Spatial Search
Spatial Relationships
Combining Spatial Data
Location-Allocation
Map Algebra
Terrain Modeling
Spatial Statistics
Geocomputation
Epilogue
Four-dimensional Modeling