The latest release in the Innovations in GIS series, this book presents all the latest research in geocomputational techniques as presented in the 1999 GIS UK Annual Conference.
Author(s): Peter Atkinson
Edition: 1
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 289
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
GISRUK Committees......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
MODELLING SPACE-TIME AND CYBERSPACE......Page 22
An introduction to TeleGeoMonitoring: problems and potentialities......Page 24
Models and queries in a spatio-temporal GIS......Page 40
A representation of relationships in temporal spaces......Page 54
Multi-agent simulation: computational dynamics within GIS......Page 68
A parameterised urban cellular model combining spontaneous and self-organising growth......Page 86
Testing space-time and more complex hyperspace geographical analysis tools......Page 100
ZONATION AND GENERALIZATION......Page 114
Automated zone design in GIS......Page 116
Designing zoning systems for flow data......Page 128
Propagating updates between geographic databases with different scales......Page 148
A simple and efficient algorithm for high-quality line labelling......Page 160
Modelling knowledge for automated generalisation of categorical maps;a constraint based approach......Page 174
Preserving density contrasts during cartographic generalisation......Page 188
SPATIAL INFORMATION AND ACCURACY......Page 200
Applying signal detection theory to spatial data......Page 202
Localized areal disaggregation for linking agricultural census data to remotely sensed land cover data......Page 218
A fuzzy modelling approach to wild land mapping in Scotland......Page 232
Evaluating the derivation of sub-urban land-cover data from Ordnance Survey Land-Line.Plus......Page 244
Interpolating elevation with locally-adaptive kriging......Page 254
Assessing spatial similarity in geographic databases......Page 268
Index......Page 284
