Integrating information infrastructures with geographical information technology [electronic resource] / edited by Bruce M. Gittings.

Contains revised versions of the best papers from the GISRUK 1998 conference. It covers a number of themes with a special focus on GIS and the WWW.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Corporate Author: National Conference on GIS Research UK
Other Authors: Gittings, B. M. (Bruce M.)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Philadelphia PA : Taylor & Francis, ©1999.
Series:Innovations in GIS ; 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction / Bruce M. Gittings
  • part PART I Creating a Data Infrastructure
  • chapter 2 NSDI was supposed to be a verb / Nancy Tosta
  • chapter 3 Spatial Information Systems and the World Wide Web / Cláudio de Souza Baptista and Zarine Kemp
  • chapter 4 Web-based geospatial data conversion tools / Anup Pradhan
  • chapter 5 Implementing an object-oriented approach to data quality / Matt Duckham
  • part PART II Integrating GIS with the Internet
  • chapter 6 The Web, maps and society / Menno-Jan Kraak
  • chapter 7 A decision support demonstrator for abiotic damage to trees, using a WWW interface / Roger Dunham
  • chapter 8 Integrated Regional Development Support System (IRDSS) / Adrian Moore
  • chapter 9 Visualising the spatial pattern of Internet address space in the United Kingdom
  • part PART III Operational Spatial Analysis
  • chapter 10 Putting the Geographical Analysis Machine on the Internet / Stan Openshaw
  • chapter 11 The use of fuzzy classification to improve geodemographic targeting / Zhiqiang Feng
  • chapter 12 Application of pattern recognition to concept discovery in geography / Ian Turton
  • part PART IV Beyond Two Dimensions
  • chapter 13 A critical evaluation of the potential of automated building height extraction from stereo-imagery for land use change detection
  • chapter 14 Terrain modelling enhancement for intervisibility analysis / Mark Dorey
  • chapter 15 Distributed viewshed analysis for planning applications / Philip Rallings
  • chapter 16 Four-Dimensional Virtual Reality GIS (4D VRGIS): Research guidelines
  • part PART V Informing Through Modelling
  • chapter 17 An integrated temporal GIS model for traffic systems / Adam Etches
  • chapter 18 To interpolate and thence to model, or vice versa? / Claire H. Jarvis
  • chapter 19 The application of GIS to the modelling of snow drift / Ross Purves
  • chapter 20 Modelling river floodplain inundation in space and time / Carsten Peter.