Burrough, Peter A.

Principles of geographical information systems/ Peter A. Burrough and Rachael A. McDonnell - New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. - xiii, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - (Spatial information systems and geostatistics) .

Rev. ed. of: Principles of geographical information systems for land resources assessment.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-326) and index.

Geographical Information: Society, Science, and Systems -- Data Models and Axioms: Formal Abstractions of Reality -- Geographical Data in the Computer -- Data Input, Verification, Storage, and Output -- Creating Continuous Surfaces from Point Data -- Optimal Interpolation using Geostatistics -- The Analysis of Discrete Entities in Space -- Spatial Analysis using Continuous Fields -- Errors and Quality Control -- Error Propagation in Numerical Modelling -- Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Geographical Objects -- Current Issues and Trends in GIS -- A Selection of World Wide Web Geography and GIS Servers -- Example Data Sets. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. App. 2. App. 3.

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Geographical Science--Geographic Information Systems

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