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The significance of modelling in managing the environment is well recognised from scientific and engineering perspectives as well as in the political arena. Environmental concerns and issues of sustainability have permeated both public and private sectors, particularly the need to predict, assess and mitigate against adverse impacts that arise from continuing development and use of resources. Environmental modelling is an inherently spatial activity well suited to taking advantage of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) functionality whether this be modelling aspects of the environment within GIS or linked to external simulation models. In doing so, a number of issues become important: environmental models need to consider space-time processes often in three-dimensions whereas GIS are largely two-dimensional and static; environmental models are often computational simulations, as distinct from cartographic modelling and map algebra in GIS; what should be the degree of integration between GIS and environmental models on any project; how does uncertainty in spatial data from GIS and the choices of parameterisation in environmental models combine and propagate through analyses to af

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INTRODUCTION Metaphors of Nature A Solution Space? Scope and Plan of This Book SECTION A FROM GIS TO GEOCOMPUTATION In The Beginning… Technological Facilitation Representing Spatial Phenomena in GIS Putting the Real World on a Diskette Data Characteristics Basic Functionality of GIS A Systems Definition of GIS Limitations of GIS and the Rise of Geocomputation THE RISE OF GEO-INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Technology First… Science to Follow… And Now…Geo-Information Engineering SECTION B APPROACHES TO MODELLING A Model of an X Typology of Models Building Models Evaluating Models Applying Models A Summary of Model Development THE ROLE AND NATURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MODELS The Context of Environmental Modelling The Decision Environment Conceptual Models Empirical Models Models Incorporating Artificial Intelligence Process Models SECTION C CASE STUDIES IN GIS, ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING AND ENGINEERING Modelling Approaches in GIS and Environmental Modelling Spatial Coexistence Source-Pathway Characterization Cluster Detection Conclusion ISSUES OF COUPLING THE TECHNOLOGIES Some Preconditions Initial Conceptualizations An Over-Simplification of the Issues Maturing Conceptualizations Maturing Typology of Integration DATA AND INFORMATION QUALITY ISSUES The Issue is…Uncertainty Early Warnings Finding a Way Forward Measuring Spatial Data Quality Modelling Error and Uncertainty in GIS Managing Fitness-For-Use MODELLING ISSUES Issues of Scale Issues of Algorithm Issues of Model Structure Issues of Calibration Bring Data Issues and Modelling Issues Together DECISION-MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY Exploring the Decision Space: Spatial Decision Support Systems Communication of Spatial Concepts Participatory Planning and Web-Based GIS All's Well that End's Well?

About the Author :
Professor Allan Brimicombe is Head of the Centre for Geo-Information Studies at the University of East London. Prior to this he was the founding Head of the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University which in turn was preceded by a successful international career in consulting engineering.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415259224
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0415259223
  • Publisher Date: 29 Aug 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Weight: 522 gr


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