Geographic Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries

by Peter A. Burrough, A. Frank

Overview

Current geographical information systems GIS deal almost exclusively with well-defined, static geographical objects ranging from physical landscapes to towns and transport systems. Such objects, exactly located in space, can easily be handled by modern GIS, yet form only a small proportion of all the possible geographical objects.; This book challenges the assumption that the world is compsed of exactly defined and bounded geographic objects such as land parcels, rivers and countries. ignoring the essential complexity of the world, current GIS do not adequately address problems as diverse as the resolution of crime between national boundaries, or the interpretation of views of people from different cultures. This work, bringing together a range of specialists from fields such as linguistics, computer science, land surveying, cartography and soil science, examines current research into the challenges of dealing with geographical phenomena that cannot easily be forced into one of the two current standard data models.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000162721
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	11/25/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Professor Peter A. Burrough and Andrew U. Frank

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface, Editors' Preface, Contributors, European Science Foundation, Part One: Introduction by the Editors, Part Two: Objects versus Fields: Contrast in Concepts, Part Three: Languages to Describe Shape, Part Four: Qualitative Topological Relations and Indeterminate Boundaries, Part Five: Data Models for Indeterminate Objects and Fields, Part Six: Practical Issues of Dealing with Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries, Part Seven: Postscript, Index

Editorial Reviews

This volume contains nearly two dozen contributions written by scientists, whose disciplines range from conceptual linguistics to land surveying to geographical information systems, who met in Baden in June 1994 at a symposium sponsored by the European Science Foundation's GISDATA Project. The book addresses the problems of dealing with geographic phenomena which cannot easily be forced into one of the two current standard data models<-->exact objects or continuous fields. Includes theoretical approaches dealing with perception, cultural differences, fuzzy logic, data structures, and geostatistics as well as case studies of mapping and modelling landforms, water, and soil. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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