1st Edition
Geographic Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries
366 Pages
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CRC Press
352 Pages
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CRC Press
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Current geographical information systems GIS deal almost exclusively with well-defined, static geographical objects ranging from physical landscapes to towns and transport systems. Such objects, exactly located in space, can easily be handled by modern GIS, yet form only a small proportion of all the possible geographical objects.; This book challenges the assumption that the world is compsed of... Read more
Series Editors' Preface, Editors' Preface, Contributors, European Science Foundation, Part One: Introduction by the Editors, Part Two: Objects versus Fields: Contrast in Concepts, Part Three: Languages to Describe Shape, Part Four: Qualitative Topological Relations and Indeterminate Boundaries, Part Five: Data Models for Indeterminate Objects and Fields, Part Six: Practical Issues of Dealing with Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries, Part Seven: Postscript, Index
Biography
Professor Peter A. Burrough and Andrew U. Frank
