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020			_a9780199228621
082			_a910.285 BUR-P
100			_aPeter A. Burrough
245			_aPrinciples of Geographical Information Systems
260			_bOxford University Press _c1998 _a Oxford ; New York
300			_a xiii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
490			_a Spatial information systems.
505			_a 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.
520			_aProvides 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.
650			_a Geographic information systems
700			_aRachael McDonnell
942			_cBK