Rev. ed. of: Principles of geographical information systems for land resources assessment. Includes glossary

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Geographical information: society, science, and systems -- Data models and axioms: formal abstractions of reality -- Geographical data in the computer -- Data input, verification, storage, and output -- Creating continuous surfaces from point data -- Optimal interpolation using geostatistics -- Analysis of discrete entities in space -- Spatial analysis using continuous fields -- Errors and quality control -- Error propagation in numerical modelling -- Fuzzy sets and fuzzy geographical objects -- Current issues and trands in GIS -- Appendices.