Geospatial Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide to Principles, Techniques and Software Tools

This book addresses the full spectrum of analytical techniques that are provided within modern Geographic Information Systems and related geospatial software products. It covers the principal concepts of geospatial analysis and their origins and methodological context.

Includes a chapter on Geocomputational Methods.

    Geospatial analysis concepts
    Core components of geospatial analysis, including distance and directional analysis, geometrical processing, map algebra, and grid models
    Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) and spatial statistics, including spatial autocorrelation and spatial regression
    Surface analysis, including surface form analysis, gridding and interpolation methods
    Network and locational analysis, including shortest path calculation, travelling salesman problems, facility location and arc routing
    Geocomputational methods, including agent-based modelling, artifical neural networks and evolutionary computing

Title Geospatial Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide to Principles, Techniques and Software Tools
Author(s) Michael J de Smith, Michael F Goodchild, Paul A Longley
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd; 2nd edition (Dec 19, 2007), eBook, 4th Edition (2013)
Hardcover 516 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906221529
ISBN-13: 978-1906221522
eBook: http://www.spatialanalysisonline.com/HTML/index.html