Neural Nets: Applications in Geography

Download or read book Neural Nets: Applications in Geography written by Bruce C. Hewitson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neural nets offer a new strategy for spatial analysis, and their application holds enormous potential for the geographic sciences. However, the number of studies that have utilized these techniques is limited. This lack of interest can be attributed, in part, to lack of exposure, to the use of extensive and often confusing jargon, and to the misapprehension that, without an underlying statistical model, the explanatory power of the neural net is very low. This text attacks all three issues, demonstrating a wide variety of neural net applications in geography in a simple manner, with minimal jargon.