Copyright and licensing information

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

Geostatistical Interpolation Methods

Core concepts

Geostatistics

Geostatistical references

Semivariance

Sample size

Support

Declustering

Variogram

Stationarity

Sill, range and nugget

Transformation

Anisotropy

Indicator semivariance

Cross-semivariance

Comments on geostatistical software packages

Semivariance modelling

Fractal analysis

Madograms and Rodograms

Periodograms and Fourier analysis

Kriging interpolation

Network and Location Analysis

Geocomputational methods and modelling

Afterword

References

Web links

Index