Principles of Geographical Information Systems

This is a completely new version of Peter Burroughs classic and highly successful Principles of Geographical Information Systems for Land Resources Assessment which was first published in 1986. The new book provides a comprehensive and concise introduction to the theory and practice of Geographical Information Systems (GIS). It explains the theory and technical details behind GIS and provides all the information necessary to understand why spatial information data and the
information systems based on them are important in the modern world.

(Oxford)

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1. Geographical Information: Society, Science, and Systems; 2. Data models and axioms: Formal abstractions of reality; 3. Geographical Data in the Computer; 4. Data input, verification, storage and output; 5. Creating continuous surfaces from point data; 6. Optimal interpolation using geostatistics; 7. The analysis of discrete entities in space; 8. Spatial analysis using continuous fields; 9. Errors and quality control; 10. Error propagation in numerical modelling; 11. Fuzzy sets and fuzzy geographical objects; 12. Current issues and trends in GIS; APPENDIX 1 GLOSSARY OF TERMS; APPENDIX 2 A SELECTION OF WORLD WIDE WEB GEOGRAPHY AND GIS SERVERS; APPENDIX 3 EXAMPLE DATA SETS

(Oxford)