Life and Motion of Socio-Economic Units : GISDATA Volume 8

Andrew Frank

ISBN 10: 0748408452 / ISBN 13: 9780748408450

Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Dez 2000, 2000

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Neuware - The amount of data collected by governments, business and research organisations has increased markedly in recent years. Geographic Information Systems have been more widely used than ever before for the storage and analysis of this information. Most GIS handle this data spatially rather than temporally, and have difficulty with the management of socio-economic time series which relate to changing spatial units.Accordingly, this book covers the issues ranging from a formal model to differentiate aspects of spatio-temporal data, through philosophical and fundamental reconsideration of time and space, to the development of practical solutions to the problem. This book draws together an interdisciplinary group of scientists in the field of geography, computing, surveying and philosophy. It presents the definitive sourcebook on temporal GIS as applied to socioeconomic units.Key Features:\* The definitive sourcebook on temporal GIS and socio-economic units\* A wide-ranging interdisciplinary study \* Sets the issues in an international context.

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• Titolo: Life and Motion of Socio-Economic Units : GISDATA Volume 8
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Dez 2000
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0748408452
• ISBN 13: 9780748408450
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto

One of the ongoing problems researchers in geography and GIS have is studying data that is inherently spatial over a long period of time. One of the main hurdles they have to overcome is the study of groups of people classified by their socio-economic status (one of the main means for governments, companies and research organisations to group together segments of the population). The amount of data collected by governments, business and research organisations has increased markedly in recent years. Geographic Information Systems have been more widely used than ever before for the storage and analysis of this information. Most GIS can handle this information spatially rather than temporally, and have difficulty with the management of socio-economic time series, which relate to spatial units. Accordingly, this book covers the issues ranging from the formal model to differentiate aspects of spatio-temporal data, through philosophical and fundamental reconsideration of time and space to the development of practical solutions to the problem. This book draws together an interdisciplinary group of scientists in the field of geography, computing, surveying and philosophy. It presents the definitive sourcebook on temporal GIS as applied to socio-economic units.

Informazioni sull?autore

Frank\, Andrew; Raper\, Jonathan; Cheylan\, J. P.