ABSTRACT

Now ubiquitous in modern life, spatial data present great opportunities to transform many of the processes on which we base our everyday lives. However, not only do these data depend on the scale of measurement, but also handling these data (e.g., to make suitable maps) requires that we account for the scale of measurement explicitly. Scale in Spat

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|18 pages

Geographic Representations

chapter 3|32 pages

Geospatial Measurements

chapter 4|24 pages

Geostatistical Models of Scale

chapter 5|16 pages

Lattice Data and Scale Models

chapter 6|22 pages

Geostatistical Methods for Scaling

chapter 7|18 pages

Methods for Scaling Gridded Data

chapter 8|22 pages

Multiscale Data Conflation

chapter 9|32 pages

Scale in Terrain Analysis

chapter 10|26 pages

Scale in Area-Class Mapping

chapter 11|38 pages

Information Content

chapter 12|34 pages

Uncertainty Characterization