Scale in Spatial Information and Analysis

Download or read book Scale in Spatial Information and Analysis written by Jingxiong Zhang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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