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9780748403868

Geographic Objects With Indeterminate Boundaries

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  • ISBN13:

    9780748403868

  • ISBN10:

    0748403868

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1996-03-01
  • Publisher: CRC Pr I Llc

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Summary

Bringing together a diversity of specialists, this book demonstrates that by ignoring the essential complexity of the world, current GIS do not adequately address problems as diverse as the resolution of crime between national boundaries.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface
Editors' Preface
Contributors
European Science Foundation
Natural Objects with Indeterminate Boundariesp. 3
The Prevalence of Objects with Sharp Boundaries in GISp. 29
Towards an Operational Typology of Geographic Entities with Ill-defined Boundariesp. 45
Uncertain Boundaries in Urban Spacep. 57
A Conceptual Framework and Fuzzy Set Implementation for Geographic Featuresp. 71
Boolean and Fuzzy Regionsp. 87
Boundaries, Concepts, Languagep. 99
On the Relations between Spatial Concepts and Geographic Objectsp. 109
Qualitative Shape Representationp. 123
Modelling Spatial Objects with Undetermined Boundaries using the Realm/ROSE Approachp. 141
An Algebraic Model for Spatial Objects with Indeterminate Boundariesp. 155
The 'Egg-Yolk' Representation of Regions with Indeterminate Boundariesp. 171
Conceptual Models for Geometry and Quality of Geographic Informationp. 193
A Syntactic Approach for Handling the Semantics of Fuzzy Spatial Objectsp. 207
Towards a Field-oriented Language: First Specificationsp. 225
On Layer-based Systems for Undetermined Boundariesp. 237
Hierarchical Models for the Definition and Extraction of Terrain Featuresp. 257
Fuzziness and Uncertainty of Soil Boundaries: From Reality to Coding in GISp. 275
On the Integration of Earth Observation Data: Defining Landscape Boundaries to a GISp. 287
How many Lakes, Islands and Rivers are there in Finland? A Case Study of Fuzziness in the Extent and Identity of Geographic Objectsp. 299
Geoscience Modelling: From Continuous Fields to Entitiesp. 313
Geographic Objects, and How to Avoid Themp. 325
Practical Consequences of Distinguishing Crisp Geographic Objectsp. 335
Index
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