Summary of key topics

definitions of terms (lecture number)

geographic information science (1)

representation (1)

2.5D (1)

geospecific, geotypical texture (1)

digital (1)

analog (1)

representative fraction (1)

binary (1)

ASCII (1)

short, long integer (1)

single, double precision float (1)

BLOB (1)

atom of geographic information (2)

Digital Earth (2)

discrete object conceptualization (2)

shapefile (2)

continuous field conceptualization (2)

six field representations (2)

ontology (2)

database management system (3)

relational model (3)

table (relation) (3)

common key (3)

tuple (3)

relational join (3)

coverage (3)

arc (3)

node (3)

topology (3)

Euler's theorem (3)

INFO relational database (3)

building topology (3)

choropleth map (3)

area class map (3)

multipoint (4)

multipart polyline (4)

multipart polygon (4)

polyline M and Z (4)

class (4)

subclass (4)

inheritance (4)

behavior (4)

encapsulation (4)

split and merge rule (4)

spatially extensive attribute (4)

spatially intensive attribute (4)

geodatabase (4)

UML (5)

Microsoft Visio (5)

use case (5)

UNETRANS (5)

object in ESRI UML (5)

feature in ESRI UML (5)

abstract class (5)

association (5)

multiplicity (5)

aggregation (5)

composition (5)

arc of circle (5)

arc of ellipse (5)

Bezier curve (5)

association class (6)

DIME (6)

TIGER (6)

geocoding (6)

turntable (6)

ArcGIS network (6)

edge, junction (6)

Tobler's First Law (7)

Thiessen polygon (7)

spatial dependence (7)

spatial autocorrelation (7)

Moran and Geary indices (7)

semivariogram (7)

spatial heterogeneity (7)

non-stationarity (7)

place-based analysis (7)

fractal (7)

Richardson plot (7)

metric georeference (8)

locator service (8)

placename authority (8)

gazetteer (8)

geoparsing (8)

geotag (8)

National Grid (8)

GO2 grid (8)

global grid (8)

Quaternary Triangular Mesh (8)

spatial analysis (9)

nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio, cyclic data (9)

exploratory spatial data analysis (9)

Pythagorean distance (9)

great circle distance (9)

trapezium algorithm (9)

shape measure (9)

buffer (10)

point in polygon (10)

polygon overlay (10)

areal interpolation (10)

spatial interpolation (10)

inverse distance weighting (10)

kriging (10)

variogram (10)

range (10)

sill (10)

nugget (10)

cross-validation (10)

density estimation (10)

kernel (10)

digital elevation model (11)

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (11)

paddyfields (11)

triangulated irregular mesh (11)

Delaunay triangles (11)

digital line graph (11)

slope (11)

aspect (11)

watershed (11)

viewshed (11)

spread function (11)

centroid (12)

Varignon Frame (12)

point of minimum aggregate travel (12)

spatial decision support system (12)

spatial sample (12)

significance test (12)

random and independent sample (12)

generalization (12)