Nikos Mamoulis - Spatial Data Management
Published: 2011-12-05 | ISBN: 1608458326 | PDF | 150 pages | 2.86 MB
Spatial database management deals with the storage, indexing, and querying of data with spatial features, such as location and geometric extent. Many applications require the efficient management of spatial data, including Geographic Information Systems, Computer Aided Design, and Location Based Services. The goal of this book is to provide the reader with an overview of spatial data management technology, with an emphasis on indexing and search techniques. It first introduces spatial data models and queries and discusses the main issues of extending a database system to support spatial data. It presents indexing approaches for spatial data, with a focus on the R-tree. Query evaluation and optimization techniques for the most popular spatial query types (selections, nearest neighbor search, and spatial joins) are portrayed for data in Euclidean spaces and spatial networks.
The book concludes by demonstrating the ample application of spatial data management technology on a wide range of related application domains: management of spatio-temporal data and high-dimensional feature vectors, multi-criteria ranking, data mining and OLAP, privacy-preserving data publishing, and spatial keyword search.
Sara MacKian, "Everyday Spirituality: Social and Spatial Worlds of Enchantment"
240 pages | Publisher: P***ave Macmillan | 2012 | ISBN: 023021939X | PDF | 4.1 MB
This book puts spirit back at the heart of spirituality. By exploring the everyday impacts of alternative spiritual beliefs and practices, the book examines contemporaryspirituality and how critical social science can map and understand it.
Adjustment Computations: Spatial Data Analysis by Charles D. Ghilani
Publisher: W...ey; 5 edition | ISBN: 0470464917 | 2010 | PDF | 672 pages | 5.8 MB
The complete guide to adjusting for measurement error—expanded and updatedno measurement is ever exact. Adjustment Computations updates a classic, definitive text on surveying with the latest methodologies and tools for analyzing and adjusting errors with a focus on least squares adjustments, the most rigorous methodology available and the one on which accuracy standards for surveys are based.This extensively updated Fifth Edition shares new information on advances in modern software and GNSS-acquired data.
Spatial Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 9400703066 | edition 2011 | PDF | 243 pages | 5.2 mb
Spatial Resilience is a new and exciting area of interdisciplinary research. It focuses on the influence of spatial variation – including such things as spatial location, context, connectivity, and dispersal – on the resilience of complex systems, and on the roles that resilience and self-organization play in generating spatial variation. Prof. Cumming provides a readable introduction and a first comprehensive synthesis covering the core concepts and applications of spatial resilience to the study of social-ecological systems.
Despite spatial statistics and spatial econometrics both being recent sprouts of the general tree "spatial analysis with measurement"—some may remember the debate after WWII about "theory without measurement" versus "measurement without theory"—several general themes have emerged in the pertaining literature. But exploring selected other fields of possible interest is tantalizing, and this is what the authors intend to report here, hoping that they will suscitate interest in the methodologies exposed and possible further applications of these methodologies. The authors hope that reactions about their publication will ensue, and they would be grateful to reader(s) motivated by some of the research efforts exposed hereafter letting them know about these experiences.
Spatial Data Analysis: Models, Methods and Techniques by Manfred M. Fischer, Jinfeng Wang
Sp ing er | 2011 | ISBN: 3642217192 | 88 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
The availability of spatial databases and widespread use of geographic information systems has stimulated increasing interest in the analysis and modelling of spatial data. Spatial data analysis focuses on detecting patterns, and on exploring and modelling relationships between them in order to understand the processes responsible for their emergence. In this way, the role of space is emphasised , and our understanding of the working and representation of space, spatial patterns, and processes is enhanced.
Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521774373, 0521773199 | edition 2003 | PDF | 452 pages | 5,1 mb
Are there geographic clusters of disease cases, or hotspots of crime? Can the geography of air quality be matched to where people hospitalized for respiratory complaints actually live? Spatial data is data about the world where the attribute of interest and its location on the earth's surface are recorded. This comprehensive overview of the subject shows how the above questions can be tackled.
Reciprocity, Spatial Mapping and Time Reversal in Electromagnetics by C. Altman
296 pages | Publisher: Spr ing er | 2011 | ISBN: 9400715293 | PDF | 2.2 MB
This long awaited second edition traces the original developments from the 1970s and brings them up to date with new and previously unpublished material to give this work a new lease of life for the early twenty-first century and readers new to the topic.
Econometrics, 5th Edition by Badi H. Baltagi
425 pages | Sp,.er | 2011 | ISBN: 3642200583 | PDF | 3.9 MB
This textbook teaches some of the basic econometric methods and the underlying assumptions behind them. It also includes a simple and concise treatment of more advanced topics in spatial correlation, panel data, limited dependent variables, regression diagnostics, specification testing and time series analysis. Each chapter has a set of theoretical exercises as well as empirical illustrations using real economic applications. These empirical exercises usually replicate a published article using Stata or Eviews.
Adaptation to Climate Change: A Spatial Challenge by Rob Roggema
375 pages | Springer | Nov 18, 2009 | ISBN: 1402093586 | PDF | 17 MB
As it becomes clear that climate change is not easily within the boundaries of the 1990’s, society needs to be prepared and needs to anticipate future changes due to the uncertain changes in climate. So far, extensive research has been carried out on several issues including the coastal defence or shifting ecozones. However, the role spatial design and planning can play in adapting to climate change has not yet been focused on.
Spatial Statistics and Modeling by Carlo Gaetan, Xavier Guyon
302 pages | Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 0387922563 | PDF | 6.3 MB
Spatial statistics are useful in subjects as diverse as climatology, ecology, economics, environmental and earth sciences, epidemiology, image analysis and more. This book covers the best-known spatial models for three types of spatial data: geostatistical data (stationarity, intrinsic models, variograms, spatial regression and space-time models), areal data (Gibbs-Markov fields and spatial auto-regression) and point pattern data (Poisson, Cox, Gibbs and Markov point processes). The level is relatively advanced, and the presentation concise but complete.
Spatial Decision Support Systems: Principles and Practices by Ramanathan Sugumaran, John Degroote
507 pages | CRC Press | 2010 | ISBN: 1420062093 | PDF | 5.2 MB
Although interest in Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) continues to grow rapidly in a wide range of disciplines, students, planners, managers, and the research community have lacked a book that covers the fundamentals of SDSS along with the advanced design concepts required for building SDSS.
Spatial Audio Processing: MPEG Surround and Other Applications by Jeroen Breebaart, Christof Faller
224 pages | Wiley-Inteience | 2008 | ISBN: 0470033509 | PDF | 2.6 MB
This book collects a wealth of information about spatial audio coding into one comprehensible volume. It is a thorough reference to the 3GPP and MPEG Parametric Stereo standards and the MPEG Surround multi-channel audio coding standard. It describes key developments in coding techniques, which is an important factor in the optimization of advanced entertainment, communications and signal processing applications.
