Self-Organising Maps: Applications in Geographic Information Science

230 Pages·2008·12.5 MB·English

by  Pragya Agarwal

Self-Organising Maps
Applications in Geographic
Information Science
Editors
PRAGYAAGARWAL
DepartmentofGeomaticEngineering,UniversityCollege,London,UK
ANDRÉSKUPIN
DepartmentofGeography,SanDiegoStateUniversity,USA
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Self-Organising Maps
Applications in Geographic
Information Science
Editors
PRAGYAAGARWAL
DepartmentofGeomaticEngineering,UniversityCollege,London,UK
ANDRÉSKUPIN
DepartmentofGeography,SanDiegoStateUniversity,USA
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1. Geographicinformationsystems—Mathematicalmodels. 2. Self-organizingmaps.
I. Agarwal,Pragya. II. Skupin,Andre.
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Contents
List of Contributors vii
1 Introduction: What is a Self-Organizing Map? 1
André Skupin and Pragya Agarwal
2 Applications of Different Self-Organizing Map Variants to Geographical
Information Science Problems 21
Fernando Bação, Victor Lobo and Marco Painho
3 An Integrated Exploratory Geovisualization Environment Based on
Self-Organizing Map 45
Etien L. Koua and Menno-Jan Kraak
4 VisualExplorationofSpatialInteractionDatawithSelf-OrganizingMaps 67
Jun Yan and Jean-Claude Thill
5 Detecting Geographic Associations in English Dialect Features in North
America within a Visual Data Mining Environment Integrating
Self-Organizing Maps 87
Jean-Claude Thill, William A. Kretzschmar Jr, Irene Casas and Xiaobai Yao
6 Self-Organizing Maps for Density-Preserving Reduction of Objects in
Cartographic Generalization 107
Monika Sester
7 Visualizing Human Movement in Attribute Space 121
André Skupin
vi Contents
8 Climate Analysis, Modelling, and Regional Downscaling Using
Self-Organizing Maps 137
Bruce C. Hewitson
9 Prototyping Broad-Scale Climate and Ecosystem Classes by Means of
Self-Organising Maps 155
Jürgen P. Kropp and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
10 Self-Organising Map Principles Applied Towards Automating Road
Extraction from Remotely Sensed Imagery 177
Pete Doucette, Peggy Agouris and Anthony Stefanidis
11 Epilogue: Intelligent Systems for GIScience: Where Next? A GIScience
Perspective 195
Michael Goodchild
Index 199
List of Contributors
Pragya Agarwal Department of Geomatic Engineering, University College London,
London WC1E 6BT, UK
Peggy Agouris Center for Earth Observing and Space Research, George Mason
University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA
Fernando Bação ISEGI/UNL, Campus de Campolide, 1070-312 Lisboa, Portugal
IreneCasas DepartmentofGeographyandNationalCenterforGeographicInformation
and Analysis, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Amherst, NY
14261, USA
Pete Doucette Principal Scientist, ITT Corporation, Advanced Engineering and
Sciences, Alexandria, VA 22303 USA
Michael Goodchild National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis,
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Bruce C. Hewitson Department of Environmental and Geographical Science,
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
Etien L. Koua International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth Obser-
vation (ITC), PO Box 6, 7500 AA Enschede, The Netherlands
Menno-JanKraak InternationalInstituteforGeoinformationScienceandEarthObser-
vation(ITC),DepartmentofGeo-InformationProcessing,POBox6,7500AAEnschede,
Hengelosestraatgg, The Netherlands
viii ListofContributors
William A. Kretzschmar Department of English, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
30602, USA
Jürgen P. Kropp Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, PO Box 601203,
14412 Potsdam, Germany
Victor Lobo ISEGI/UNL, Campus de Campolide, 1070-312 Lisboa, Portugal and
Portuguese Naval Academy, Alfeite, 2810-001 Almada, Portugal
Marco Painho ISEGI/UNL, Campus de Campolide, 1070-312 Lisboa, Portugal
Monika Sester Institute for Cartography and Geoinformatics, Leibniz University of
Hannover, 30167 Hannover, Germany
Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14412
Potsdam, PO Box 601203, Germany
AndréSkupin DepartmentofGeography,SanDiegoStateUniversity,SanDiego,CA
92182-4493, USA
Anthony Stefanidis Department of Earth Systems and Geoinformation Sciences,
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA
Jean-Claude Thill Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and Center for
Applied Geographic Information Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
Jun Yan Department of Geography and Geology, Western Kentucky University,
Bowling Green, KY 42101, USA
Xiaobai Yao Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
30602, USA