TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peter A. Burrough
AU  - Rachael McDonnell
TI  - Principles of Geographical Information Systems
T2  -  	Spatial information systems
SN  - 9780199228621
U1  - 910.285 BUR-P 
PY  - 1998///
CY  -  	Oxford ; New York 
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  -  	      Geographic information systems
N1  -  	1. Geographical Information: Society, Science, and Systems -- 2. Data Models and Axioms: Formal Abstractions of Reality -- 3. Geographical Data in the Computer -- 4. Data Input, Verification, Storage, and Output -- 5. Creating Continuous Surfaces from Point Data -- 6. Optimal Interpolation using Geostatistics -- 7. The Analysis of Discrete Entities in Space -- 8. Spatial Analysis using Continuous Fields -- 9. Errors and Quality Control -- 10. Error Propagation in Numerical Modelling -- 11. Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Geographical Objects -- 12. Current Issues and Trends in GIS -- App. 2. A Selection of World Wide Web Geography and GIS Servers -- App. 3. Example Data Sets
N2  - Provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of Geographical Information Systems (GIS). This work explains the theory and technical details behind GIS and provides the information necessary to understand why spatial information data and the information systems based on them are important in the modern world.
ER  -