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  title info:
    title: Temporal GIS
    sub title: Advanced Functions for Field-Based Applications
  name:
    name part: Christakos, George.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Bogaert, Patrick.
  name:
    name part: Serre, Marc L.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 217 pages)
  abstract: The book focuses on the development of advanced functions for field-based temporal geographical information systems (TGIS). These fields describe natural, epidemiological, economical, and social phenomena distributed across space and time. The book is organized around four main themes: "Concepts, mathematical tools, computer programs, and applications". Chapters I and II review the conceptual framework of the modern TGIS and introduce the fundamental ideas of spatiotemporal modelling. Chapter III discusses issues of knowledge synthesis and integration. Chapter IV presents state-of-the-art mathematical tools of spatiotemporal mapping. Links between existing TGIS techniques and the modern Bayesian maximum entropy (BME) method offer significant improvements in the advanced TGIS functions. Comparisons are made between the proposed functions and various other techniques (e.g., Kriging, and Kalman-Bucy filters). Chapter V analyzes the interpretive features of the advanced TGIS functions, establishing correspondence between the natural system and the formal mathematics which describe it. In Chapters IV and V one can also find interesting extensions of TGIS functions (e.g., non-Bayesian connectives and Fisher information measures). Chapters VI and VII familiarize the reader with the TGIS toolbox and the associated library of comprehensive computer programs. Chapter VIII discusses important applications of TGIS in the context of scientific hypothesis testing, explanation, and decision making.
  table of contents: From the contents: 1. A BME View to the New Realities of TGIS -- 2. Spatiotemporal Modelling -- 3. Knowledge Bases Integration -- 4. Spatiotemporal Mapping -- 5. Interpretive BME -- 6. The BME Toolbox in Action -- 7. The BME Computer Library -- 8. Scientific Hypothesis Testing, Explanation, and Decision Making.
  note: by George Christakos, Patrick Bogaert, Marc L. Serre.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  classification: QA276-280
  classification: 519.5
  identifier: 9783642565403 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3642565409 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9783642625633
  identifier: 3642625630
  identifier: 3642565409
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422201545.9
    record identifier: in00003565898
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng