GIS, Spatial Analysis, and Modeling

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ESRI Press, 2005 - 480 pages
A guide for geographic analysts, modelers, software engineers, and GIS professionals, this book discusses agent-based modeling, dynamic feedback and simulation modeling, as well as links between models and GIS software. This collection also presents a state-of-the-art understanding of applications based on environmental, atmospheric, hydrological, urban, social, health, and economic models.

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Contents

GIS and Modeling Overview
1
Simulating Spatially Explicit Networks for Dispersion of Infectious
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Towards a GIS Platform for Spatial Analysis and Modeling
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About the author (2005)

Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning and Director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London. Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. He was Editor of Geographical Analysis between 1987 and 1990 and has served as Chair of the GIS Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. Dr. Bradley O. Parks is GIS Coordinator for Great Lakes Research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Large Lakes Research Station, Grosse Ile, MI. Dr. Louuis T. Steyaert is a research physical scientist within the National Mapping Division of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Bibliographic information

TitleGIS, Spatial Analysis, and Modeling
AuthorDavid J. Maguire
EditorsDavid J. Maguire, Michael Batty, Michael F. Goodchild
Editionillustrated
PublisherESRI Press, 2005
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized5 Nov 2007
ISBN1589481305, 9781589481305
Length480 pages
  
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