Research Catalog

Title

Quality aspects in spatial data mining / edited by Alfred Stein, Wenzhong Shi, Wietske Bijker.

Publication

Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

• Stein, Alfred.
• Shi, Wenzhong.
• Bijker, Wietske, 1965-

Description

xx, 364 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Subject

• Geographic information systems
• Spatial analysis (Statistics)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Sect. I. Systems Approaches to Spatial Data Quality -- Ch. 1. Querying Vague Spatial Objects in Databases with VASA / Alejandro Pauly and Markus Schneider -- Ch. 2. Assessing the Quality of Data with a Decision Model / Andrew Frank -- Ch. 3. Semantic Reference Systems Accounting for Uncertainty: A Requirements Analysis / Sven Schade -- Ch. 4. Elements of Semantic Mapping Quality: A Theoretical Framework / Mohamed Bakillah, Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi, Yvan Bedard and Jean Brodeur -- Ch. 5. A Multicriteria Fusion Approach for Geographical Data Matching / Ana-Maria Olteann -- Sect. II. Geostatistics and Spatial Data Quality for DEMs -- Ch. 6. A Preliminary Study on Spatial Sampling for Topographic Data / Haixia Mao, Wenzhong Shi and Yan Tian -- Ch. 7. Predictive Risk Mapping of Water Table Depths in a Brazilian Cerrado Area / Rodrigo Manzione, Martin Knotters, Gerard Heuvelink, Jos von Asmuth and Gilberto Camara -- Ch. 8. Modeling Data Quality with Possibility Distributions / Gerhard Navratil -- Ch. 9. Kriging and Fuzzy Approaches for DEM / Rangsima Sunila and Karin Kollo -- Sect. III. Error Propagation -- Ch. 10. Propagation of Positional Measurement Errors to Field Operations / Sytze de Bruin, Gerard Heuvelink and James Brown -- Ch. 11. Error Propagation Analysis Techniques Applied to Precision Agriculture and Environmental Models / Marco Marinelli, Robert Corner and Graeme Wright -- Ch. 12. Aspects of Error Propagation in Modern Geodetic Networks / Martin Vermeer and Karin Kollo -- Ch. 13. Analysis of the Quality of Collection 4 and 5 Vegetation Index Time Series from MODIS / Rene R. Colditz, Christopher Conrad, Thilo Wehrmann, Michael Schmidt and Stefan Dech -- Ch. 14. Modeling DEM Data Uncertainties for Monte Carlo Simulations of Ice Sheet Models / Felix Hebeler and Ross S. Purves -- Sect. IV. Applications -- Ch. 15. Geostatistical Texture Classification of Tropical Rainforest in Indonesia / Arief Wijava, Prashanth R. Marpu and Richard Gloaguen -- Ch. 16. Quality Assessment for Polygon Generalization / Ekatarina S. Podolskaya, Karl-Heinrich Anders, Jan-Henrik Haunert and Monika Sester -- Ch. 17. Effectiveness of High-Resolution LIDAR DSM for Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Flood Modeling in an Urban Area / Tom H. M. Rientjes and Tamiru H. Alemseged -- Ch. 18. Uncertainty, Vagueness, and Indiscernibility: The Impact of Spatial Scale in Relation to the Landscape Elements / Alexis J. Comber, Pete F. Fisher and Alan Brown -- Ch. 19. A Quality-Aware Approach for the Early Steps of the Integration of Environmental Systems / Abdelbasset Guemeidu, Robert Jeansoulin and Gabriella Salzano -- Ch. 20. Analyzing and Aggregating Visitor Tracks in a Protected Area / Eduardo S. Dias, Alistair J. Edwardes and Ross S. Purves -- Sect. V. Communication -- Ch. 21. What Communicates Quality to the Spatial Data Consumer? / Anna T. Boin and Gary J. Hunter -- Ch. 22. Judging and Visualizing the Quality of Spatio-Temporal Data on the Kakamega-Nandi Forest Area in West Kenya / Kerstin Huth, Nick Mitchell and Gertrud Schaab -- Ch. 23. A Study on the Impact of Scale-Dependent Factors on the Classification of Landcover Maps / Alex M. Lechner, Simon D. Jones and Sarah A. Bekessy -- Ch. 24. Formal Languages for Expressing Spatial Data Constraints and Implications for Reporting of Quality Metadata / Paul Watson -- Epilogue: Putting Research into Practice / Michael F. Goodchild.

ISBN

• 9781420069266 (alk. paper)
• 1420069268 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008009919
• 99932264074

OCLC

• ocn214063501
• 214063501
• SCSB-5449212

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries