Springer Handbook of Geographic Information (Hardcover)

Part A Basics - Computer Science Modelers and theorists consider geographic information (GI) as being a subtopic of computer science. Many aspects of geographic information are almost pure information technology while others are more geographic information. Part A is dedicated to the topics which have a close relation to information technology, including modeling, mathematics and statistics, databases, encoding, as well as data mining and knowledge discovery. Chap. 1 Modeling of Geographic Information (C. Roswell Chap. 2 Mathematics and Geostatistics (F. Gielsdorf, L. Grundig, T. Hillmann) Chap. 3 Databases (T. Brinkhoff, W. Kresse) Chap. 4 Encoding of Geographic Information (C. Portele) Chap. 5 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (S.-L. Wang, W.-Z. Shi) Part B Geographic Information Part B addresses all geographic information topics that primarily are more specific to space and time. Staring with on the description of geographic information systems (GIS), the following chapters cover geodetic foundations, the capture of spatial and temporal data and their visualization (cartography) as well as web mapping technologies. Chap. 6 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (N. Bartelme) Chap. 7 Change Detection (J. Theau) Chap. 8 Geodesy (M. Becker) Chap. 9 Data Capture and Geosensor Networks (J. Skaloud, M. Cramer, N. Haala, J.-O. Wallgrun, S. Nittel, W. Kresse) Chap. 10 Geometry, Topology and Graph Theory (G. Groger, B. George) Chap. 11 Portrayal and Cartography (P. Hardy, K. Field) Chap. 12 Geospatial Metadata (D. Danko) Chap. 13 Standards for Geographic Information (W. Kresse, D. Danko, K. Fadaie) Chap. 14 Web Mapping and Web Cartography (A. Neumann) Chap. 15 Geospatial Semantic Web (J. Brodeur) Chap. 16 Registration of Geospatial Information Elements (C.D. O'Brien, R. Lott) Chap. 17 Security for Geospatial Information Systems (A. Matheus) Part C Applications Part C presents a selection of typical and important applications of geographic information. Some of the chapters address applications which may be considered as a specialization of geographic information, such as cadastre. In most of the other cases, geographic information systems (GIS) are only a tool for managing spatiotemporal data, as in planning, defense, and geology. The chapters open up a vast number of new applications, such as the chapter on location-based services. Another approach is open-source GIS, which is a license-oriented perspective on GIS and has become a lifestyle or philosophy among information technology (IT) people. Chap. 18 Ubiquitous Geographic Information (T.J. Kim, S.-G. Jang) Chap. 19 Legal, Law, Cadastre (M. Seifert) Chap. 20 Spatial Planning (F. Wilke) Chap. 21 Location Based Services (A. Zipf, M. Jost) Chap. 22 Movement Analysis (J. Gudmundsson, P. Laube, T. Wolle) Chap. 23 Marine GIS (M. Jonas, L. Vetter, W. Schroder, R. Pesch) Chap. 24 GIS in Agriculture (R. Bill, E. Nash, G. Grenzdorffer) Chap. 25 GIS in Defense (G. Joos) Chap. 26 GIS for Transportation (K. Choi, T.J. Kim) Chap. 27 GIS in Geology (K. Asch, S.J. Mathers, H. Kessler) Chap. 28 GIS for Energy and Utilities (W. (Bill) Meehan, J. Wyland) Chap. 29 GIS in Health and Human Services (W. (Bill) Davenhall, C. Kinabrew) Chap. 30 Open Source GIS (R.R. Vatsavai, T.E. Burk, S. Lime, M. Hugentobler, A. Neumann, C. Strobl) Chap. 31 Open Source Tools for Environmental Modeling (A. Jolma, D.P. Ames, N. Horning, H. Mitasova, M. Neteler, A. Racicot, T. Sutton) Glossary of ISO Terms.- Acknowledgements.- About the Authors.- Subject Index