GIS-based Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences
eBook - ePub

GIS-based Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

GIS-based Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences

About this book

Studies in the humanities and the social sciences can be enhanced through the use of geographic information systems (GIS). However, this computer-aided method of analysis is worthless unless researchers can devote the time necessary to learn what it is, what it can do, and how to use it.Resulting from a six-year project entitled Spatial Inf

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Preface
  6. Editor
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Contributors
  9. Table of Contents
  10. 1: Introduction
  11. 2: A Tool for Creating Pseudo-3D Spaces with Hyperphoto: An Application in Ethnographic Studies
  12. 3: A Laser-Scanner System for Acquiring Archaeological Data: Case of the Tyre Remains
  13. 3: A Laser-Scanner System for Acquiring Walking-Trajectory Data and Its Possible Application to Behavioral Science
  14. 5: A Method for Constructing a Historical Population-Grid Database from Old Maps and Its Applications
  15. 6: Urban Employment Areas: Defining Japanese Metropolitan Areas and Constructing the Statistical Database for Them
  16. 7: Data Modeling of Archaeological Sites Using a Unified Modeling Language
  17. 8: How to Find Free Software Packages for Spatial Analysis via the Internet
  18. 9: A Toolbox for Examining the Effect of Infrastructural Features on the Distribution of Spatial Events
  19. 10: A Toolbox for Spatial Analysis on a Network
  20. 11: Estimation of Routes and Building Sites Described in Premodern Travel Accounts Through Spatial Reasoning
  21. 12: Computer-Simulated Settlements in West Wakasa: Identifying the Ancient Tax Regions — The Go-Ri System
  22. 13: Site-Catchment Analysis of Prehistoric Settlements by Reconstructing Paleoenvironments with GIS
  23. 14: Migration, Regional Diversity, and Residential Development on the Edge of Greater Cairo — Linking Three Kinds of Data — Census, Household-Survey, and Geographical — with GIS
  24. 15: Effect of Environmental Factors on Housing Prices: Application of GIS to Urban-Policy Analysis
  25. 16: Estimating Urban Agglomeration Economies for Japanese Metropolitan Areas: Is Tokyo Too Large?
  26. 17: Evaluation of School Redistricting by the School Family System
  27. 18: A Method for Visualizing the Landscapes of Old-Time Cities Using GIS
  28. 19: Visualization for Site Assessment
  29. 20: Visualization of the Mental Image of a City Using GIS
  30. Index