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Spatial Analysis and Modeling in Geographical Transformation Process: GIS-based Applications (GeoJournal Library)

Springer, 2011

Currently, spatial analysis is becoming more important than ever because enormous volumes of spatial data are available from different sources, such as GPS, Remote Sensing, and others.

This book deals with spatial analysis and modelling. It provides a comprehensive discussion of spatial analysis, methods, and approaches related to...

PostGIS Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2014

For web developers and software architects this book will provide a vital guide to the tools and capabilities available to PostGIS spatial databases. Packed with hands-on recipes and powerful concepts.

Overview

Integrate PostGIS with web frameworks and implement OGC standards such as WMS and WFS using...

Pro Oracle Spatial

Apress, 2013

In the past decade, location analysis has outgrown its traditional use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and has become a critical component in business applications. The vast majority of commercial franchises employ location-based analysis and services in their day-to-day activities. With this growing usage, scalable and...

Learning ArcGIS for Desktop

Packt Publishing, 2016

Create, analyze, and map your spatial data with ArcGIS for Desktop

About This Book

Learn how to use ArcGIS for Desktop to create and manage geographic data, perform vector and raster analysis, design maps, and share your results

Solve real-world problems and share your...

Beginning MapServer: Open Source GIS Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

Apress, 2005

Maps have played a prominent role in human activity for thousands of years. One of the earliest known maps was uncovered during the course of an archaeological excavation in Turkey in 1961. The Çatalhöyük site is a neolithic settlement dating from approximately 6500 BC. The map consists of a partially preserved, painted plaster...

How to Make Maps: An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

Routledge, 2020

The goal of How to Make Maps is to equip readers with the foundational knowledge of concepts they need to conceive, design, and produce maps in a legible, clear, and coherent manner, drawing from both classical and modern theory in cartography.

This book is appropriate for graduate and undergraduate students who...

Planetary Cartography and GIS (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

Springer, 2019

This book approaches geological, geomorphological and topographical mapping from the point in the workflow at which science-ready datasets are available. Though there have been many individual projects on dynamic maps and online GISs, in which coding and data processing are given precedence over cartographic principles, cartography...

Natural Hazards GIS-Based Spatial Modeling Using Data Mining Techniques (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research)

Springer, 2018

This edited volume assesses capabilities of data mining algorithms for spatial modeling of natural hazards in different countries based on a collection of essays written by experts in the field. The book is organized on different hazards including landslides, flood, forest fire, land subsidence, earthquake, and gully erosion. Chapters were...

Python Geospatial Analysis Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2015

Over 60 recipes to work with topology, overlays, indoor routing, and web application analysis with Python

About This Book

Explore the practical process of using geospatial analysis to solve simple to complex problems with reusable recipes

Concise step-by-step instructions to teach you...

Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2013

This book provides the recipes you need to use Python with AcrGIS for more effective geoprocessing. Shortcuts, scripts, tools, and customizations put you in the driving seat and can dramatically speed up your workflow.

Overview

Learn how to create geoprocessing scripts with ArcPy

Customize...

Hydroinformatics: Data Integrative Approaches in Computation, Analysis, and Modeling

CRC Press, 2005

Modern hydrology is more interdisciplinary than ever. Staggering amounts and varieties of information pour in from GIS and remote sensing systems every day, and this information must be collected, interpreted, and shared efficiently. Hydroinformatics: Data Integrative Approaches in Computation, Analysis, and Modeling introduces the tools,...

Visual and Spatial Analysis: Advances in Data Mining, Reasoning, and Problem Solving

Springer, 2005

Advanced visual analysis and problem solving has been conducted successfully for millennia. The Pythagorean Theorem was proven using visual means more than 2000 years ago. In the 19th century, John Snow stopped a cholera epidemic in London by proposing that a specific water pump be shut down. He discovered that pump by visually correlating...

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