The Handbook of Geographic Information Science

by Wilson, John P.; Fotheringham, A. Stewart

• ISBN13: 9781405107952
• ISBN10: 1405107952
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Handbook is an essential reference to the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Science. Designed to suit those who want an in-depth treatment of the subject, it comprises around 40 substantial essays, each written by a recognized expert in a particular area. The Handbook covers the full spectrum of research in the field. Contributors explore the major trends influencing the collection, organization, and dissemination of geographically referenced data sets, and review the defining characteristics of the database solutions used in GIS products. They consider the opportunities for using GIS to conduct spatial analysis, and examine the ways in which it has been used to advance cartographic modeling and visualization. Finally, they portray GIS at work, surveying its increasing number of applications. The editors introduce the Handbook with an essential overview of the origins, history, and state of the art of Geographic Information Science, before providing brief summaries of the chapters that follow. They conclude the book with two final chapters setting out how Geographic Information Science is likely to evolve in the future.

Author Biography

John P. Wilson is Professor of Geography and Director of the GIS Research Laboratory at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

A. Stewart Fotheringham is Director of the National Centre for Geocomputation at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

They are both editors of the journal Transactions in GIS, also published by Blackwell.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Contributors	p. xiv
Geographic Information Science: An Introduction	p. 1
Data Issues	p. 9
The Availability of Geographic Data: The Current Technical and Institutional Environment	p. 11
Social Data	p. 35
Remote Sensing	p. 49
Spatialization	p. 61
Uncertainty in Spatial Databases	p. 80
On the Identification of Uncertainties in Spatial Data and Their Quantification with Probability Distribution Functions	p. 94
Database Trends and Challenges	p. 109
Object-Oriented Database Management Systems	p. 111
Adding the Z Dimension	p. 144
Adding Time into Geographic Information System Databases	p. 169
Geospatial Data Integration	p. 185
Visualization	p. 197
Mapping in a Digital Age	p. 199
Generalization of Spatial Databases	p. 222
Geographic Information Systems and Surfaces	p. 239
Fuzzy Classification and Mapping	p. 259
Rule-Based Mapping	p. 273
Multivariate Geovisualization	p. 292
Virtual Reality in Geographic Information Systems	p. 317
Knowledge Elicitation	p. 335
Inference and Spatial Data	p. 337
Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	p. 352
The Geospatial Semantic Web	p. 367
Spatial Analysis	p. 377
Quantitative Methods and Geographic Information Systems	p. 379
Spatial Cluster Analysis	p. 395
Terrain Analysis	p. 417
Dynamic Modeling	p. 436
Geographic Information Systems and Society	p. 447
Institutional Geographic Information Systems and Geographic Information Partnering	p. 449
Participatory Geographic Information Systems	p. 466
Geographic Information Systems and Participatory Decision Making	p. 481
Surveys of People and Place	p. 494
Geographic Information Science, Personal Privacy, and the Law	p. 519
Geographic Information Systems in Education	p. 540
Future Trends and Challenges	p. 557
Web-based Geographic Information Systems	p. 559
Location-based Services and Geographic Information Systems	p. 581
Geographic Information Science: The Grand Challenges	p. 596
Geographic Information Science: Where Next?	p. 609
Index	p. 620
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