Life and Motion of Socio-Economic Units: GISDATA Volume 8

by Andrew Frank (Editor), Jonathan Raper (Editor), J. P. Cheylan (Editor)

Overview

One of the ongoing problems researchers in geography and GIS have is studying data that is inherently spatial over a long period of time. One of the main hurdles they have to overcome is the study of groups of people classified by their socio-economic status (one of the main means for governments, companies and research organisations to group toget

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040220542
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	12/14/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Frank\, Andrew; Raper\, Jonathan; Cheylan\, J. P.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction by the Editors 2. Setting the Stage 3. Ontological Background 4. Databases for Temporal GIS: Applications 5. Definition of Socio-economic Units

Editorial Reviews

When geological imaging systems first began to be used, they inherited the two-dimensional and static qualities of the paper maps they succeeded, and only recently have incorporated altitude and time. Here geographers and information specialists with the GISDATA project, financed by the European Science Foundation, explain how to take advantage of the innovations to examine change in socially created large geographic objects used to subdivide space for administrative and economic purposes, and ranging in size from a continent to a single parcel of land. They cover fundamentals, the ontological background, applications, and the definition of socio-economic units. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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