Digital Geologic and Geographic Information Systems

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 63
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

About The Product

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Short Courses in Geology Series.

Geographic information systems are computer software packages for acquisition, manipulation, and display of data characterized by geographic coordinates. Commercial GIS programs are essential tools for many purposes, including maintaining property tax records, managing public services and utilities in cities, and creating inventories of natural resources such as forests. Anything that can be represented as a point, line, or area on a map can most efficiently be maintained in a computer system by software that takes explicit advantage of the spatial relationships between its parts-that is, by a geographic information system.

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✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
......Page 2
Copyright
......Page 3
Contents
......Page 4
Spatial Data Structures......Page 5
Input Of Geological Datasets......Page 8
Conversion Of Data Structure......Page 9
Displaying A Geological Map......Page 10
Map Overlays......Page 11
Modelling......Page 12
References......Page 17
SOFTWARE......Page 18
DATA ANALYSIS......Page 20
RESULTS......Page 23
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 24
REFERENCES......Page 25
Data presentation......Page 27
Data Gathering......Page 28
Data Presentation
......Page 33
Hardware......Page 46
References
......Page 47
Grid Based Interpolation Models For Pc-use......Page 48
Typical Data Structures......Page 50
Pertinent Panacea Pieces......Page 51
Surface Mapping & Database Systems......Page 54
Visualization......Page 58
Surfaces......Page 59
Fence Diagrams
......Page 60
Stereo......Page 61
Essential elements for 3-D analysis......Page 62
Conclusions......Page 63