ISBN:
9780748408450
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (361 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Life and Motion of Socio-Economic Units : GISDATA Volume 8
DDC:
305.50723
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
One of the ongoing problems researchers in geography and GIS have is studying data that is inherently spatial over a long period of time. One of the main hurdles they have to overcome is the study of groups of people classified by their socio-economic status (one of the main means for governments, companies and research organisations to group together segments of the population).The amount of data collected by governments, business and research organisations has increased markedly in recent years. Geographic Information Systems have been more widely used than ever before for the storage an
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; The GIS Data Series; General Introduction; PART ONE Setting the Stage; PART TWO Ontological Background; PART THREE Databases for Temporal GIS; PART FOUR Applications; PART FIVE Definition of Socio-Economic Units; Postscript; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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