Principles of Geographical Information Systems

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Provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of Geographical Information Systems (GIS). This work explains the theory and technical details behind GIS and provides the information necessary to understand why spatial information data and the information systems based on them are i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peter A. Burrough
Other Authors: Rachael McDonnell
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press 1998
Series:Spatial information systems.
Subjects:
Geographic information systems
Table of 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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