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Life and Motion of Socio-economic Units (GISDATA)
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Product Description
A wide-ranging and inter-disciplinary study of the way data is collected by governments, business and research organisations. Most GIS handle this data spatially and have difficulty with the socio-economic aspect. The definitive sourcebook.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #957484 in Books
- Published on: 2000-12-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 348 pages
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From the Back Cover
The amount of data collected by governments, business and research organisations has increased markedly in recent years, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become more widely used for the storage and analysis of this data. Most GIS are restricted to static snapshots of spatial data and have difficulties with the management of time series. Change draws our attention; in any form it is important as it indicates where actions are occurring and where reaction may be necessary. People are interested in change, but current GIS remain unable to analyse changing data. Future GIS must be able to store, retrieve, analyse and present time-varying spatial data.
Accordingly, this book covers issues ranging from a formal model to differentiated aspects of spatio-temporal data, through a philosophical and fundamental reconsideration of time and space per se, to the development of practical solutions to the problem. It draws on the work of a task force of the GISDATA research network, and is in large
About the Author
Frank; Andrew University of Vienna, Austria,Raper; Jonathan City University, UK,Cheylan; J. P. UMR ESPACE, France,
