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Contents, figures and tables

Foreword to the Second Edition

Acknowledgements

Introduction and terminology

Conceptual Frameworks for Spatial Analysis

Historical and Methodological Context

Building Blocks of Spatial Analysis

Data Exploration and Spatial Statistics

Surface and Field Analysis

Modelling Surfaces

Surface Geometry

Visibility

Watersheds and Drainage

Gridding, Interpolation and Contouring

Deterministic Interpolation Methods

Inverse distance weighting (IDW)

Natural neighbour

Nearest-neighbour

Radial basis and spline functions

Modified Shepard

Triangulation with linear interpolation

Triangulation with spline-like interpolation

Rectangular or bi-linear interpolation

Profiling

Polynomial regression

Minimum curvature

Moving average

Local polynomial

Topogrid/Topo to raster

Geostatistical Interpolation Methods

Network and Location Analysis

Geocomputational methods and modelling

Afterword

References

Web links

Index