Innovations In GIS

by M. F. Worboys (Editor)

Overview

This book aims to offer research at the cutting edge. The individual chapters are fully revised and updated versions of contributions to the first focused scientific symposium on research in geographic information systems GISRUK. The book provides the reader with a comprehensive outline of the full range and diversity of innovative research programmes in the science of GIS. Chapters address key issues such as computational support; spatial analysis and error; and application and implementation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367579838
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Series:	Innovations in GIS
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael F. Worboys has a background in mathematics and computational group theory. His interest in the theory and practice of geographic databases began in 1987 at the Midlands Regional Research Laboratory (of which he was a founder member) at the University of Leicester. He is currently researching and lecturing at the University of Keele. He is author of GIS: A Computer Science Perspective (Taylor & Francis, forthcoming).

Table of Contents

Foreword David Unwin vii

Preface ix

Contributors xi

GISRUK Committees xiii

Introduction 1

Section I Computational Support for GIS 7

1 On the integration of database systems and computational support for high-level modelling of spatio-temporal phenomena Terence Smith 11

2 Automatic GIS data capture and conversion Colin Flanagan Cullen Jennings Neil Flanagan 25

3 Computer-assisted tools for cartographic data capture Tim Mayo 39

4 An automatic generalization system for large-scale topographic maps Gary Robinson Fang Lee 53

5 A consistent user-model for a GIS incorporating remotely sensed data Mark Gahegan 65

6 Computational support for spatial information systems: models and algorithms Christopher Yearsley Michael Worboys Philip Story Priyantha Jayawardena Petros Bofakos 75

7 Incorporating the temporal dimension in a GIS Zarine Kemp Arek Kowalczyk 89

8 Towards temporality in GIS Monica Wachowicz Richard Healey 105

Section II Spatial Analysis and Error 119

9 A concepts-rich approach to spatial analysis, theory generation, and scientific discovery in GIS using massively parallel computing Stan Openshaw 123

10 Exploratory spatial analysis in GIS: generating geographical hypotheses from spatial data Richard Aspinall 139

11 Visualizing spatial association in area-value data Jason Dykes 149

12 Probable and fuzzy models of the viewshed operation Peter Fisher 161

13 Error simulation in vector GIS using neural computing methods Chris Brunsdon Stan Openshaw 177

14 An investigation into the spatial structure of error in digital elevation data Colin Monckton 201

Section III Applications of GIS 215

Information sharing and the implementation of GIS: some key issues Ian Masser Heather Campbell 217

16 Modelling environmental systems with GIS: Theoretical barriers to progress David Livingstone Jonathan Raper 229

17 Coupling of process-based vegetation models to GIS and knowledge-based systems with reference to vegetation change David Miller 241

18 Using GIS to target agri-environmental policy Charlotte Norman Clive Potter Hadrian Cook 251

Index 263