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

 Spatial Data Models and Methods

 Geometric and Related Operations

 Length and area for vector datasets

 Length and area for raster datasets

 Surface area

 Line Smoothing and point-weeding

 Centroids and centres

 Point (object) in polygon (PIP)

 Polygon decomposition

 Shape

 Overlay and combination operations

 Areal interpolation

 Districting and re-districting

 Classification and clustering

 Boundaries and zone membership

 Tessellations and triangulations

 Queries and Computations

 Distance Operations

 Directional Operations

 Grid Operations and Map Algebra

 Data Exploration and Spatial Statistics

 Surface and Field Analysis

 Network and Location Analysis

 Geocomputational methods and modelling

 Afterword

 References

 Web links

 Index