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Historical GIS : technologies, methodologies, and scholarship /

Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell's study, first published in 2007, comprehensively defines this field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research. A GIS is a form...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gregory, Ian, 1970-
Otros Autores: Ell, Paul S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Colección:Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 39.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • GIS and its role in historical research: an introduction
  • GIS: a framework for representing the earth's surface
  • Building historical GIS databases
  • Basic approaches to handling data in a historical GIS
  • Using GIS to visualise historical data
  • Time in historical GIS databases
  • Geographic information retrieval: historical geographic information on the internet and in digital libraries
  • GIS and quantitative spatial analysis
  • From techniques to knowledge: historical GIS in practice.