GIS for earth surface systems
Subtitle: analysis and modelling of the natural environment
By: editors; R. Dikau, H. Saurer.
Contributors: Dikau, Richard.; Saurer, H.
Publisher: Gebrüder Borntraeger
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berlin; Stuttgart, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Environmental sciences -- Data processing.; Geographic information systems.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: GIS analysis for scale-sensitive environmental modelling based on hierarchy theory / J. Albrecht, A. Car; value: Modelling snowmelt using a digital terrain model and GIS-based techniques / L. Bernhard, R. Weibel; value: GIS and mesoscale models as tools used within the problem of regionalisation of precipitation / K. Braun, H. Saurer; value: Towards computer science principles of 3D geographical information systems / M. Breunig; value: The application of GIS for landscape ecological assessments and multicriteria optimization for a test site near Leipzig / R. Grabaum, B.C. Meyer; value: GIS-based quantification of spatially high resolution denudation rates in the Central Kenya Rift / S. Roessner; value: Possibilities and constraints of determining and processing hydrological data: GIS as an instrument to survey water quality of stagnant water bodies / V. Roth, B. Cyffka; value: Extracting geomorphometric attributes and objects from digital elevation models: semantics, methods, future needs / J. Schmidt, R. Dikau; value: Raster data in GIS A solution for the data compression problem based on wavelet functions / B. Triebfürst, H. Saurer