Interfacing geostatistics and GIS

Abstract

The present volume contains contributions of internationally renowned authors to the theme of interfacing between geostatistics, geoinformation systems and spatial data base management systems. Although some progress has been made toward interfacing, there is still only little overlap between the different communities. The present volume is intended to provide a bridge between specialists working in these areas. The volume first surveys new methodological developments in geostatistics, and then reports on applications in traditional areas of geo-and environmental sciences and novel applications such as traffic and entrepreneurship data modeling. Finally, successful approaches to the integration of different types of agricultural, biomedical and epidemiological information systems with GIS and spatial statistics software systems are documented. Book jacket. Author/co-author of six books Author of more than 70 scientific papers Reviewer for a number of international statistics journals Associate Editor of several statistics journals Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.