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GIS Environmental Modelling and Engineering

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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

Table of Contents:
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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