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List of Figures viii
List of Contributors xiv
Geographic Information Science: An Introduction 1
Part I Data Issues 9
1 The Availability of Geographic Data: The Current
Technical and Institutional Environment 11 David J. Cowen
2 Social Data 35 David J. Martin
3 Remote Sensing 49 Brian G. Lees
4 Spatialization 61 André Skupin and Sara I. Fabrikant
5 Uncertainty in Spatial Databases 80 Ashley Morris
6 On the Identification of Uncertainties in Spatial Data and Their Quantification with Probability Distribution Functions 94
James D. Brown and Gerald B. M. Heuvelink
Part II Database Trends and Challenges 109
7 Object-Oriented Database Management Systems 111 Shashi Shekhar and Ranga Raju Vatsavai
8 Adding the Z Dimension 144 Michael F. Hutchinson
9 Adding Time into Geographic Information System Databases 169 May Yuan
10 Geospatial Data Integration 185 Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi
Part III Visualization 197
11 Mapping in a Digital Age 199 William E. Cartwright
12 Generalization of Spatial Databases 222 William A. Mackaness
13 Geographic Information Systems and Surfaces 239
Nicholas J. Tate, Peter F. Fisher, and David J. Martin
14 Fuzzy Classification and Mapping 259 Vincent B. Robinson
15 Rule-Based Mapping 273 A-Xing Zhu
16 Multivariate Geovisualization 292 Mark Gahegan
17 Virtual Reality in Geographic Information Systems 317 Michael Batty
Part IV Knowledge Elicitation 335
18 Inference and Spatial Data 337 Chris Brunsdon
19 Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 352 Harvey J. Miller
20 The Geospatial Semantic Web 367 Frederico Fonseca
Part V Spatial Analysis 377
21 Quantitative Methods and Geographic Information Systems 379
Martin E. Charlton
22 Spatial Cluster Analysis 395 Geoffrey M. Jacquez
23 Terrain Analysis 417 Yongxin Deng, John P. Wilson, and John C. Gallant
24 Dynamic Modeling 436 Jochen Albrecht
Part VI Geographic Information Systems and Society 447
25 Institutional Geographic Information Systems and
Geographic Information Partnering 449 David L. Tulloch
26 Participatory Geographic Information Systems 466
Daniel Weiner and Trevor M. Harris
27 Geographic Information Systems and Participatory
Decision Making 481 Piotr Jankowski and Timothy L. Nyerges
28 Surveys of People and Place 494 Peter H. Dana
29 Geographic Information Science, Personal Privacy,and the Law 519 George C. H. Cho
30 Geographic Information Systems in Education 540 Joseph J. Kerski
Part VII Future Trends and Challenges 557
31 Web-based Geographic Information Systems 559
Christopher B. Jones and Ross S. Purves
32 Location-based Services and Geographic Information
Systems 581 Allan J. Brimicombe
33 Geographic Information Science: The Grand Challenges 596
Michael F. Goodchild
34 Geographic Information Science: Where Next? 609
Andreas Reuter and Alexander Zipf
Index 620