Innovations in GIS 4

Selected Papers from the Fourth National Conference on GIS Research UK (GISRUK)

Libro donde se presenta una selección de papers editado por Zarine Kemp (2005)
presentados en la Fourth National Conference on GIS Research UK (GISRUK)

Contenido:

Introduction

PART ONE Data Modelling and Spatial Data Structures

1 A multiresolution data storage scheme for 3D GIS
J.Mark Ware and Christopher B.Jones

2 Storage-efficient techniques for representing digital terrain models
David Kidner and Derek Smith

3 Modelling historical change in southern Corsica: temporal GIS development using an extensible database system
Janet Bagg and Nick Ryan

4 Towards a model for multimedia geographical information systems
Dean Lombardo and Zarine Kemp

PART TWO Spatial Analysis

5 Recent advances in the exploratory analysis of interregional flows in space and time
Duane Marble, Zaiyong Gou , Lin Liu and James Saunders

6 A genetic programming approach to building new spatial models relevant to GIS
Ian Turton, Stan Openshaw and Gary Diplock

7 Exploring categorical spatial data: an interactive approach
Chris Brunsdon

8 A universal translator of linguistic hedges for the handling of uncertainty and fitness-for-use in GIS
Allan Brimicombe

9 Scripting and tool integration in spatial analysis: prototyping local indicators and distance statistics
Roger Bivand

PART THREE Environmental Modelling

10 Environmental modelling with geographical information systems
Peter Burrough

11 VGIS: a GIS shell for the conceptual design of environmental models
Jochen Albrecht, Stefan Jung and Samuel Mann

12 Mapping sub-pixel boundaries from remotely sensed images
Peter M.Atkinson

13 Towards a 4D GIS: four-dimensional interpolation utilizing kriging
Eric J.Miller

14 Assessing the influence of digital terrain model characteristics on tropical slope stability analysis
James Hartshorne

PART FOUR GIS: Science, Ethics and Infrastructure

15 GIS without computers: building geographic information science from the ground up
Helen Couclelis

16 The ethics of six actors in the geographical information systems arena
Peter Fisher

17 Geographic information: a resource, a commodity, an asset or an infrastructure?
Robert Barr and Ian Masser

PART FIVE GIS: The Impact of the Internet

18 Designing a scientific database query server using the World Wide Web: the example of Tephrabase
Anthony Newton, Bruce Gittings and Neil Stuart

19 Open spatial decision-making: evaluating the potential of the World Wide Web
Steve Carver, Marcus Blake, Ian Turton and Oliver Duke-Williams