GIS Environmental Modelling and Engineering

Professor Allan Brimicombe is Head of the Centre for Geo-Information Studies at the University of East London. Prior to this he was the founding Head of the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University which in turn was preceded by a successful international career in consulting engineering.

GIS, Environmental Modeling and Engineering focuses on the modeling, rather than on data collection or visualization and aims to develop critical users of both GIS and environmental models. It discusses a number of issues such as: the need for environmental models to consider space-time processes often in three-dimensions; the degree of integration between GIS and environmental models on any project; uncertainty in spatial data from GIS and the choices of parameterization that combine and propagate through analyses to affect outputs; the means decisions can be made with uncertain information. This book should enrich the knowledge and skills for students and practitioners.
Contents
1. Introduction.

Section A.
2. From GIS to Geocomputation
3. The Rise of Geo-Information Science and Engineering.

Section B.
4. Approaches to Modeling
5. The Role and Nature of Environmental Models.

Section C.
6. Case Studies of GIS, Environmental Modeling and Engineering
7. Issues of Coupling the Technologies
8. Data and Information Quality Issues
9. Modeling Issues
10. Decision-Making Under Uncertainty.

References.
Index.