Encyclopedia of GIS

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shekhar, Shashi (Editor), Xiong, Hui (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Earth sciences.; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Geographical information systems.; Statistics.; Environmental sciences.; Computer Science.; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Earth Sciences, general.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.

The Encyclopedia of GIS features a comprehensive, authoritative treatment of this subject matter, with a simple A-Z format providing easy access to the field. Authored and peer-reviewed by world experts, the entries explain the key software, data sets, and processes used by geographers and computati...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Preface
• Active Database Technology
• Computational Geometry
• Critical Evaluation of Standards Proposals
• Data Semantics and Models
• Geoinformatics
• Geoprivacy
• Geosecurity.-Geospatial Data Versioning
• Graphical Aspects
• Human Spatial Reasoning
• Image Databases
• Interoperability and Standards
• Languages for Metadata Management
• Management of Raster and Vector Data
• Middleware Architectures
• Practical Approaches from Computational Geometry
• Real-Time Spatio-Temporal Databases
• Spatial Aspects of Bioinformatics
• Spatial Aspects of Mobile Computing
• Spatial Cognition
• Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Spatial Extensibility of O-R DBMSs
• Systems Architectures
• Technology Forecasting and Transfer
• Traffic Management System
• Uncertainty and Imprecision
• Virtual Reality and 3D
• Visual Query Languages
• Wireless Networks
• Index.