This book discusses maps as data with data structure implications; roving windows; spatial data modeling and management; assessing variability, shape, and pattern of map features; overlaying maps; cost-benefit analysis; algorithms involved in slope, distance, and connectivity; and cartographic and spatial modeling. A disk containing four-color graphics, including charts and maps, is also available. Provides a GIS glossary. Includes a list of recommended readings for each topic. Compiles international GIS instructions and presents contact details and information on each.
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This book discusses maps as data with data structure implications; roving windows; spatial data modeling and management; assessing variability, shape, and pattern of map features; overlaying maps; cost-benefit analysis; algorithms involved in slope, distance, and connectivity; and cartographic and spatial modeling. A disk containing four-color graphics, including charts and maps, is also available. Provides a GIS glossary. Includes a list of recommended readings for each topic. Compiles international GIS instructions and presents contact details and information on each.
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This book really made me think about GIS analysis in a new way. This book covers topics such as thinking of maps "map-ematically", distance across a terrain rather than just straight lines, slope and aspect as mathematical surface derivatives (as in calculus), and much, much more. If you are serious about GIS and spatial modeling, this book is a must read.
Berry has a way of looking a GIS analysis that is different than anybody else I have read or listened to. And his presentation style is exciting and fresh. I have seen Berry in live presentations twice and he never fails to disappoint for content or style.
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Our historical perspective of maps is one of accurate location of physical features primarily for travel through unfamiliar areas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
optimal path density, polygonal progeny, visual exposure density surface, techy types, neighborhood variability, map coincidence, visual connectivity, map uncertainty, spatial database management, weighted windows, raster system, slope map, accumulated distance, rubber ruler, mapped data, geographic search, relative barriers, areal feature, shadow map, map analysis, traditional mapping, accumulation surface, spatial interpolation, tic marks, derived maps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Our historical perspective of maps is one of accurate location of physical features primarily for travel through unfamiliar areas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
optimal path density, polygonal progeny, visual exposure density surface, techy types, neighborhood variability, map coincidence, visual connectivity, map uncertainty, spatial database management, weighted windows, raster system, slope map, accumulated distance, rubber ruler, mapped data, geographic search, relative barriers, areal feature, shadow map, map analysis, traditional mapping, accumulation surface, spatial interpolation, tic marks, derived maps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Geographic Information Systems, Fort Collins, Englewood Cliffs, Oxford University Press, Geographical Analysis, Books Aronoff, Books Burrough, New York New!
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- Geographical information systems: Principles and applications by David J. Maguire on 8 pages
- Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling by C. Dana Tomlin on 6 pages
- Geographic Information Systems: An Introduction by Jeffrey Star on 5 pages
- Geographic Information Systems: A Management Perspective by Stan Aronoff on 5 pages
- Remote Sensing: Technique for Environmental Analysis by John E. Estes on 5 pages
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