Applied GIS and Spatial Analysis [Hardcover]

Only applications-driven book dealing with commerically-sponsored spatial analysis research.

• Focuses on business and public sector planning case studies, offering readers a snapshot of the use of spatial analysis across a broad range of areas.
• Internationally-renowned editors and contributors present a broad variety of global applications, and demonstrate GIS components and spatial methodologies in practice.

Acknowledgements.

1. Introduction (Graham Clarke and John Stillwell).

PART 1: GEOBUSINESS

2. Retail Applications of Spatial Modelling (Ken Jones and Tony Hernandez).

3. Using Spatial Models to Solve Difficult Retail Location Problems (Mark Birkin, Graham Clarke, Martin Clarke and Richard Culf).

4. Location-based Services for WAP Phone Users in a Shopping Centre (António Câmara and António Eduardo Dias.

5. Mass Appraisal and Noise: the use of Lifestyle Segmentation Profiles to Define Neighbourhoods for Hedonic Housing Price Mass Appraisal Models (Steve Laposa and Grant Thrall..

PART 2: SOCIAL DEPRIVATION

6. Target Clusters of Deprivation within Cities (Richard Harris and Paul Longley).

7. Assessing Deprivation in English Inner City Areas: Making the Case for EC Funding for Leeds City (Paul Boyle and Seraphim Alvanides).

8. GIS for Joined-up Government: the Case Study of the Sheffield Children Service Plan (Massimo Craglia and Paola Signoretta).

9. The Application of New Spatial Statistical Methods to the Detection lc¿