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Regional and Urban GIS: A Decision Support Approach Review

Regional and Urban GIS: A Decision Support Approach
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I bought this book and read it on Christmas, which could save my eyesight from sitting in front of harmful machine---computer...
This book is a very nice GIS book from urban perspective. It may be not easy to understand from a new GIS user. Instead, this is very nice reference book for decision makers who are using GIS technologies and techniques.
I strongly recommend this book.

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Business Site Selection, Location Analysis and GIS Review

Business Site Selection, Location Analysis and GIS
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This book succeeds on three fronts: describing various real world approaches to locating facilities (e.g. fire stations, businesses), describing the mathematical models used to solve these facility location problems as well as how to solve these problems using a GIS or linear programming package. The book is approachable, well written, contains many diagrams and illustrations and is suitable for use as a beginning to intermediate textbook.

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GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis Review

GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis
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This book is very well written and contains tons of useful information. I wouldn't try to do a GIS decision model without it. It describes common modeling mistakes to avoid and provides plenty of examples. I haven't found any other texts that are this in-depth, describing every step of the modeling process in detail.

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GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition Review

GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition
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I'm not your average GISer. I have a BS in Mathematics and worked for 15 years as a software developer. This book was a required text for the class in Advanced Vector GIS that was part of my MS in GIS. I currently use it as a reference as I work on my PhD in pure GIScience.
This book covers GIS data structures and databases in a way that a Computer Scientist would appreciate. It covers GIS algorithms in a way that an Applied Mathmetician would like. It covers GIS topology in a way that a Pure Mathmetician could learn from. It covers uncertainty in a way that a Statistician would enjoy.
If you are, say a graduate student in mathematics or computer science and want to understand what all the GIS hype is about, you've found a great, concise volume that covers an intense amount of information. If you are a geographer who needs to formalize some language concerning theory and methods for a publication, then this is a good start.
If you are looking for something like "how to delineate a watershed in ArcView 9", skip it and look elsewhere.

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GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition, provides a full, up-to-date overview of the state-of-the-art in GIS, both Geographic Information Systems and the study of these systems-Geographic Information Science. Analyzing the subject from a computing perspective, the second edition explores conceptual and formal models needed to understand spatial information, and examines the representations and data structures needed to support adequate system performance. This volume also covers the special-purpose interfaces and architectures required to interact with and share spatial information, and explains the importance of uncertainty and time. The material on GIS architectures and interfaces as well as spatiotemporal information systems is almost entirely new.The second edition contains substantial new information, and has been completely reformatted to improve accessibility. Changes include:
There is also a new chapter on spatial uncertainty
Complete revisions of the bibliography, index, and supporting diagrams
Supplemental material is offset at the top of the page, as are references and links for further study
Definitions of new terms are in the margins of pages where they appear, with corresponding entries in the index

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Geographic Information Systems for Transportation: Principles and Applications (Spatial Information Systems) Review

Geographic Information Systems for Transportation: Principles and Applications (Spatial Information Systems)
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Having been a student with Harvey Miller probably makes my review somewhat biased. Nevertheless, this is an excellent book if you're a student or professional in the field of GIS and need to know how GIS can be applied in transportation, or vice versa, knowing tranportation, this book will tell you what GIS can do for you. Mind you, this is not for the fainthearted, this is solid academic work and presumes some academic knowlegde prior to reading this book. It is specked with references that are hard to get, and you are likely to spend more time in the library reading up on the bibliography than digesting the actual text. Still, if GIS-T is your line of research, you cannot avoid having this book. It is by far one of the most comprehensive I have seen. It is clear that the authors posess solid knowledge and have covered a wide field and left nothing out. It may have a rather inhibitive price; in hindsight it was well worth the money spent.

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GIS data and tools are revolutionizing transportation research and decision making, allowing transportation analysts and professionals to understand and solve complex transportation problems that were previously impossible.Here, Miller and Shaw present a comprehensive discussion of fundamental geographic science and the applications of these principles using GIS and other software tools.By providing thorough and accessible discussions of transportation analysis within a GIS environment, this volume fills a critical niche in GIS-T and GIS literature.

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Fundamentals of Geographical Information Systems Review

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I really enjoyed this book that I used in conjunction with a university summer course. I thought it was very well written and informative. The only drawback is that it is not written for any specific GIS software (e.g. ArcGIS) so it has to be very general and unbiased in its explanation of concepts.

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Visualizing Data Review

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This book was recommended highly to me by a former university professor (and now consultant). It exceeds my expectations. The figures and acompanying explanations are very clear, as is the language throughout. Visualizing Data discusses several tools with which I was not familiar, and clarifies tools that I thought I understood (including box plots). I have taken several university statistics classes, but I believe this book would help anyone involved in displaying or interpreting data. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but when your business depends on it, a well-defined plot or graph can be worth much more. Visualizing Data enables you to produce well-defined plots and graphs with confidence.

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Visualizing Data is about visualizationtools that provide deep insight into thestructure of data. There are graphicaltools such as coplots, multiway dot plots,and the equal count algorithm. There arefitting tools such as loess and bisquarethat fit equations, nonparametric curves,and nonparametric surfaces to data.But the book is much more than just acompendium of useful tools. It conveys astrategy for data analysis that stressesthe use of visualization to thoroughlystudy the structure of data and to checkthe validity of statistical models fittedto data. The result of the tools and thestrategy is a vast increase in what you canlearn from your data. The book demonstratesthis by reanalyzing many data sets from thescientific literature, revealing missedeffects and inappropriate models fitted to data.

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Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) Review

Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)
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A stunning 1000 page encyclopedia of spatial, multidimensional, and metric data structures and algorithms presented in the Knuth tradition. The general coverage is broader than an older, now out of print and expensive: "Design and Analysis of Spatial Data Structures". In a surprise, the new book is not only the size of a telephone directory, but it has double the number of useful pages. 4 extensive chapters cover data structures and algorithms for: points, objects and images, intervals and small rectangles, and the same data types in higher +dimensions. Within each chapter, the algorithms and clearly presented and are accompanied by an extensive use of figures. The algorithms which run from the expected to the exotic are summarized by the table of contents at the publisher's web site. Unexpected algorithms are also covered including: nearest neighbor finding which is useful for clustering applications, image pyramids, and object pyramids or hierarchies such as R-trees.The book has a textbook flavor with exercises at the end of each section where specifics are left for the student; however, solutions and pseudo-code for many of the exercises are in a 300+ page appendix maintaining the book as a useful reference. This book is comprehensive, inexpensive, and in my mind - a must have.

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Image Analysis, Classification, and Change Detection in Remote Sensing: With Algorithms for ENVI/IDL, Second Edition Review

Image Analysis, Classification, and Change Detection in Remote Sensing: With Algorithms for ENVI/IDL, Second Edition
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Don't you just hate it when such a potentially helpful book exists and you can't at least see the table of contents? Well, I provide that below. As for details, I find it a very helpful and very heavily mathematical book. You won't just see the same old stuff on convolution kernels, histogram equalization and matching etc. rehashed with very few technical details and lots of pretty color plates. Be prepared to look at theorems and a few derivations, but the book is practical too. I'd highly recommend it to the professional who is ready for some more advanced material. As for IDL/ENVI, the algorithms are described well enough you don't have to use that as an implementation language. If you don't know ENVI/IDL this is a pretty good tutorial without trying nearly as hard as programming books on that specific subject.
Preface to the Second Edition xi
Preface to the First Edition xiii
1 Images, Arrays, and Matrices 1
1.1 Multispectral Satellite Images 2
1.2 Algebra of Vectors and Matrices 5
1.2.1 Elementary Properties 6
1.2.2 Square Matrices 8
1.2.3 Singular Matrices 10
1.2.4 Symmetric, Positive Definite Matrices 11
1.2.5 Linear Dependence and Vector Spaces 12
1.3 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors 13
1.4 Singular Value Decomposition 16
1.5 Vector Derivatives 18
1.6 Finding Minima and Maxima 19
1.7 Exercises 25
2 Image Statistics 27
2.1 Random Variables 27
2.1.1 Discrete Random Variables 28
2.1.2 Continuous Random Variables 29
2.1.3 Normal Distribution 32
2.2 Random Vectors 34
2.3 Parameter Estimation 39
2.3.1 Sampling a Distribution 39
2.3.2 Interval Estimation 42
2.3.3 Provisional Means 43
2.4 Hypothesis Testing and Sample Distribution Functions 44
2.4.1 Chi-Square Distribution 48
2.4.2 Student-t Distribution 49
2.4.3 F-Distribution 50
2.5 Conditional Probabilities, Bayes' Theorem, and Classification 51
2.6 Ordinary Linear Regression 55
2.6.1 One Independent Variable 55
2.6.2 More Than One Independent Variable 57
2.6.3 Regularization, Duality, and the Gram Matrix 60
2.7 Entropy and Information 62
2.7.1 Kullback-Leibler Divergence 64
2.7.2 Mutual Information 64
2.8 Exercises 65
3 Transformations 69
3.1 Discrete Fourier Transform 69
3.2 Discrete Wavelet Transform 73
3.2.1 Haar Wavelets 75
3.2.2 Image Compression 79
3.2.3 Multiresolution Analysis 82
3.2.3.1 Dilation Equation and Refinement Coefficients 83
3.2.3.2 Cascade Algorithm 84
3.2.3.3 Mother Wavelet 85
3.2.3.4 Daubechies D4 Scaling Function 87
3.3 PrincipalComponents 89
3.3.1 Primal Solution 91
3.3.2 Dual Solution 91
3.4 Minimum Noise Fraction 93
3.4.1 Additive Noise 93
3.4.2 Minimum Noise Fraction Transformation in ENVI 96
3.5 Spatial Correlation 98
3.5.1 Maximum Autocorrelation Factor 98
3.5.2 Noise Estimation 101
3.6 Exercises 103
4 Filters, Kernels, and Fields 107
4.1 Convolution Theorem 107
4.2 Linear Filters 111
4.3 Wavelets and Filter Banks 113
4.3.1 One-Dimensional Arrays 115
4.3.2 Two-Dimensional Arrays 120
4.4 Kernel Methods 122
4.4.1 Valid Kernels 124
4.4.2 Kernel PCA 127
4.5 Gibbs-Markov Random Fields 130
4.6 Exercises 135
5 Image Enhancement and Correction 139
5.1 Lookup Tables and Histogram Functions 139
5.2 Filtering and Feature Extraction 141
5.2.1 Edge Detection 141
5.2.2 Invariant Moments 145
5.3 Panchromatic Sharpening 150
5.3.1 HSV Fusion 151
5.3.2 Brovey Fusion 152
5.3.3 PCA Fusion 153
5.3.4 DWT Fusion 154
5.3.5 Á Trous Fusion 155
5.3.6 Quality Index 157
5.4 Topographic Correction 159
5.4.1 Rotation, Scaling, and Translation 159
5.4.2 Imaging Transformations 160
5.4.3 Camera Models and RFM Approximations 161
5.4.4 Stereo Imaging and Digital Elevation Models 163
5.4.5 Slope and Aspect 167
5.4.6 Illumination Correction 170
5.5 Image-Image Registration 175
5.5.1 Frequency-Domain Registration 176
5.5.2 Feature Matching 177
5.5.2.1 High-Pass Filtering 178
5.5.2.2 Closed Contours 179
5.5.2.3 Chain Codes and Moments 179
5.5.2.4 Contour Matching 180
5.5.2.5 Consistency Check 180
5.5.2.6 Implementation in IDL 181
5.5.3 Resampling and Warping 182
5.6 Exercises 183
6 Supervised Classification: Part 1 187
6.1 Maximum a Posteriori Probability 188
6.2 Training Data and Separability 189
6.3 Maximum Likelihood Classification 193
6.3.1 ENVI's Maximum Likelihood Classifier 195
6.3.2 Modified Maximum Likelihood Classifier 196
6.4 Gaussian Kernel Classification 198
6.5 Neural Networks 202
6.5.1 Neural Network Classifier 207
6.5.2 Cost Functions 209
6.5.3 Backpropagation 212
6.5.4 Overfitting and Generalization 216
6.6 Support Vector Machines 219
6.6.1 Linearly Separable Classes 220
6.6.1.1 Primal Formulation 221
6.6.1.2 Dual Formulation 222
6.6.1.3 Quadratic Programming and Support Vectors 224
6.6.2 Overlapping Classes 225
6.6.3 Solution with Sequential Minimal Optimization 227
6.6.4 Multiclass SVMs 228
6.6.5 Kernel Substitution 230
6.6.6 Modified SVM Classifier 231
6.7 Exercises 232
7 Supervised Classification: Part 2 237
7.1 Postprocessing 237
7.1.1 Majority Filtering 238
7.1.2 Probabilistic Label Relaxation 238
7.2 Evaluation and Comparison of Classification Accuracy 240
7.2.1 Accuracy Assessment 241
7.2.2 Model Comparison 246
7.3 Adaptive Boosting 250
7.4 Hyperspectral Analysis 257
7.4.1 Spectral Mixture Modeling 259
7.4.2 Unconstrained Linear Unmixing 261
7.4.3 Intrinsic End-Members and Pixel Purity 261
7.5 Exercises 263
8 Unsupervised Classification 267
8.1 Simple Cost Functions 268
8.2 Algorithms That Minimize the Simple Cost Functions 270
8.2.1 K-Means Clustering 271
8.2.2 Kernel K-Means Clustering 271
8.2.3 Extended K-Means Clustering 273
8.2.4 Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering 278
8.2.5 Fuzzy K-Means Clustering 280
8.3 Gaussian Mixture Clustering 282
8.3.1 Expectation Maximization 283
8.3.2 Simulated Annealing 286
8.3.3 Partition Density 286
8.3.4 Implementation Notes 287
8.4 Including Spatial Information 289
8.4.1 Multiresolution Clustering 289
8.4.2 Spatial Clustering 289
8.5 Benchmark 292
8.6 Kohonen Self-Organizing Map 295
8.7 Image Segmentation 297
8.7.1 Segmenting a Classified Image 299
8.7.2 Object-Based Classification 300
8.7.3 Mean Shift 303
8.8 Exercises 304
9 Change Detection 311
9.1 Algebraic Methods 311
9.2 Postclassification Comparison 313
9.3 Principal Components Analysis 313
9.3.1 Iterated PCA 313
9.3.2 Kernel PCA 314
9.4 Multivariate Alteration Detection 319
9.4.1 Canonical Correlation Analysis 320
9.4.2 Orthogonality Properties 322
9.4.3 Scale Invariance 324
9.4.4 Iteratively Reweighted MAD 325
9.4.5 Correlation with the Original Observations 327
9.4.6 Regularization 328
9.4.7 Postprocessing 330
9.5 Decision Thresholds and Unsupervised Classification of Changes 331
9.6 Radiometric Normalization 336
9.7 Exercises 338
Appendix A Mathematical Tools 343
A.1 Cholesky Decomposition 343
A.2 Vector and Inner Product Spaces 345
A.3 Least Squares Procedures 347
A.3.1 Recursive Linear Regression 347
A.3.2 Orthogonal Linear Regression 350
Appendix B Efficient Neural Network Training Algorithms 355
B.1 Hessian Matrix 355
B.1.1 R-Operator 356
B.l.1.1 Determination of Rv{n} 358
B.l.1.2 Determination of R'{'0} 359
B.l.1.3 Determination of R'{'h] 359
B.1.2 Calculating the Hessian 360
B.2 Scaled Conjugate Gradient Training 360
B.2.1 Conjugate Directions 362
B.2.2 Minimizing a Quadratic Function 363
B.2.3 Algorithm 366
B.3 Kalman Filter Training 368
B.3.1 Linearization 371
B.3.2 Algorithm 372
B.4 A Neural Network Classifier with Hybrid Training 379
Appendix C ENVI Extensions in IDL 381
C.1 Installation 381
C.2 Extensions 382
C.2.1 Kernel Principal Components Analysis 384
C.2.2 Discrete Wavelet Transform Fusion 386
C.2.3 Á Trous Wavelet Transform Fusion 388
C.2.4 Quality Index 389
C.2.5 Calculating Heights of Man-Made Structures in High-Resolution Imagery 390
C.2.6 Illumination Correction 392
C.2.7 Image Registration 393
C.2.8 Maximum Likelihood Classification 394
C.2.9 Gaussian Kernel Classification 396
C.2.10 Neural Network Classification 397
C.2.11 Support Vector Machine Classification 399
C.2.12 Probabilistic Label Relaxation 399
C.2.13 Classifier Evaluation and Comparison 401
C.2.14 Adaptive Boosting a Neural Network Classifier 402
C.2.15 Kernel K-Means Clustering 404
C.2.16 Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering 405
C.2.17 Fuzzy K-Means Clustering 406
C.2.18 Gaussian Mixture Clustering 407
C.2.19 Kohonen Self-Organizing Map 409
C.2.20 Classified Image Segmentation 410
C.2.21 Mean Shift Segmentation 411
C.2.22 Multivariate Alteration Detection 412
C.2.23 Viewing Changes 415
C.2.24 Radiometric Normalization 416
Appendix D Mathematical Notation 419
References 421
Index 429


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Demonstrating the breadth and depth of growth in the field since the publication of the popular first edition, Image Analysis, Classification and Change Detection in Remote Sensing, with Algorithms for ENVI/IDL, Second Edition has been updated and expanded to keep pace with the latest versions of the ENVI software environment. Effectively interweaving theory, algorithms, and computer codes, the text supplies an accessible introduction to the techniques used in the processing of remotely sensedimagery. This significantly expanded edition presents numerous image analysis examples and algorithms, all illustrated in the array-oriented language IDL-allowing readers to plug the illustrations and applications covered in the text directly into the ENVI system-in a completely transparent fashion. Revised chapters on image arrays, linear algebra, and statistics convey the required foundation, while updated chapters detail kernel methods for principal component analysis, kernel-based clustering, and classification with support vector machines. Additions to thisedition include: An introduction to mutual information and entropy Algorithms and code for image segmentation In-depth treatment of ensemble classification (adaptive boosting )Improved IDL code for all ENVI extensions, with routines that can take advantage of the parallel computational power of modern graphics processorsCode that runs on all versions of the ENVI/IDL software environment from ENVI 4.1 up to the present-available on the author's websiteMany new end-of-chapter exercises and programming projects With its numerous programming examples in IDL and many applications supporting ENVI, such as data fusion, statistical change detection, clustering and supervised classification with neural networks-all available as downloadable source code-this self-contained text isidealfor classroom use or self study.

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Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling Review

Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling
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...well not really, but this book sparked the scientific interest in it. The concepts surrounding surface analysis date back to late 1970s and were championed by Dana Tomlin with his PhD dissertation in 1983, which was later published as this book. Here, Tomlin introduces map algebra operators based on how a computer algorithm obtains data values for processing raster surfaces. He identifies three fundamental classes: local, focal and zonal functions.
Tomlin is a must to any academic student of GIS, since much or nearly all work on raster GIS springs off from Tomlin's work. The illustrations clearly show that this is an old book, but the knowlegde still remains as brilliant today as it was then.
This is a book you want to own, simply because it is very sought after and constantly unavailable from your university library.

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Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling, Second Edition Review

Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling, Second Edition
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The author has made a great effort of presenting the subject matter in an easy to understand and read format. The text covers basic laboratory determination of hydrogeological paratmers to complex calculations and modeling. This book is great because there have been times when I have been working on a problem (effective poristy, density and saturation) and have been able to find an example of it in this book. The text covers one dimensional steady state flow, transient flow, flow nets etc.. Cooper Jacob method, drawdown, well efficiency and numeric groundwater flow modeling. I highly recommend this book. Full of alot of great information and examples/problem sets.

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Coupling the basics of hygrogeology with analytical and numerical modeling methods, Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling, Second Edition provides detailed coverage of both theory and practice. Written by a leading hydrogeologist who has consulted for industry and environmental agencies and taught at major universities around the world, this unique book fills a gap in the groundwater hydrogeology literature. With more than 40 real-world examples, the book is a source for clear, easy-to-understand, and step-by-step quantitative groundwater evaluation and contaminant fate and transport analysis, from basic laboratory determination to complex analytical calculations and computer modeling. It provides more than 400 drawings, graphs, and photographs, and a variety of useful tables of all key groundwater parameters, as well as lucid, straightforward answers to common hydrogeological problems.Reflecting nearly ten years of new scholarship since the publication of the bestselling first edition, this second edition is wider in focus with added and updated examples, figures, and problems, yet still provides information in the author's trademark, user-friendly style. No other book offers such carefully selected examples and clear, elegantly explained solutions. The inclusion of step-by-step solutions to real problems builds a knowledge base for understanding and solving groundwater issues.

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GIS and Archaeological Site Location Modeling Review

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The list of reasons as to why a computer couldn't predict the location of an archaeological site covers at least a page of small type: we don't know where the water was in those times, we don't know the soil type in those days, we don't know the cultural or social values of the time and how they might have influenced site location.
In spite of this, the advent of ever better GIS software and higher performance computers have lead researchers around the world to being using GIS in a predictive manner to help identify potential sites worth investigating.
This book is a summary of research conducted around the world by people attempting to do just that. GIS can of course be used to map teraine and other features such as springs, both those flowing now and those from the past that have left traces. Combining these data with prediction equasions developed by the researcher have produced some interesting studies that point to success.
The book has a series of contributors from around the world: France, Greece, UK, Slovenia, Australia and of course many different organizations in the U.S. This book represents the state of the art in the field as it is known today.

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Although archaeologists are using GIS technology at an accelerating rate, publication of their work has not kept pace. A state-of-the-art exploration the subject, GIS and Archaeological Site Location Modeling pulls together discussions of theory and methodology, scale, data, quantitative methods, and cultural resource management and uses location models and case studies to illustrate these concepts. This book, written by a distinguished group of international authors, reassesses the practice of predictive modeling as it now exists and examines how it has become useful in new ways.
A guide to spatial procedures used in archaeology, the book provides a comprehensive treatment of predictive modeling. It draws together theoretical models and case studies and explains how modeling may be applied to future projects. The book illustrates the various aspects of academic and practical applications of predictive modeling. It also discusses the need to assess the reliability of the results and the implications of reliability assessment on the further development of predictive models.
Of the books available on GIS, some touch on archaeological applications but few cover the topic in such depth. Both up to date and containing case studies from a wide range of geographical locations including Europe, the USA, and Australia, this book sets a baseline for future developments.

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GIS Modeling in Raster Review

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I disagree in part with the comments below. This book covers most basic aspects of raster-based modeling. Most GIS books I come across seem to focus on vector format data and concepts. I found this book is a breath of fresh air. And it doesn't limit itself to one particular GIS sofware package and their algorithms when discussing raster abilities. My only negative comments are that it often seems too wordy (although that may be a function of the book layout, it's printed on 8.5 x 11 paper and many pages are single column text only which really appear daunting when looking at them), some subjects could use better, more in-depth coverage with diagrams and figures, and the price.
Raster-based modeling is a rich environment with great potential and I think this book gives a much better introduction than more general GIS books. In addition to this book, I would also recommend books by Joseph K Berry for more advanced raster analysis topics.

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