ABSTRACT
For present purposes, Statistical Geoinformatics for Human Environment Interface is concerned with spatial patterns of interaction between complexes of environmental process factors and human process factors. The process aspect is very important because it underscores the temporally dynamic nature of the phenomena of interest. The phrasing in terms of complexes of factors is equally important because it casts the suites of concerns in a multivariate context. Continuously varying scales of both time and space are interwoven throughout these concerns. This book occupies multiple middle grounds between geographic information systems (GIS), multivariate analysis, partial ordering, spatial statistics, and even remote sensing. At the interface of several such disciplinary domains, it becomes a challenge in itself to avoid a tangle of terminologies. Inasmuch as we do not intend to reiterate any of these disciplinary domains directly, we will often choose to use terminology that is not directly derived from a discipline but clari¢es our context suf¢ciently in a way that each specialist can make whatever translation of terms they deem necessary to satisfy their strictures. Rather than directly diversifying a domain, we will provide synergistic strategies for a supporting science of surveillance through an innovative paradigm of localizing spatial data that GIS treat as layers. The book is written such that the ¢rst and last chapters can be read ahead to obtain a basic appreciation of the intention and approach that is the main thrust throughout the book. However, the other chapters should be read in numerical order thereafter because each builds upon those preceding.
