Modeling Our World: The Esri Guide to Geodatabase Design

Michael Zeiler

  • 出版商: ESRI Press
  • 出版日期: 2000-01-01
  • 售價: $480
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 200
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 1879102625
  • ISBN-13: 9781879102620
  • 相關分類: 資料庫
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Unleash the full modeling power of your geographic information system software

Geographic data models are digital frameworks that describe the location and characteristics of things in the world around us. With a geographic information system, we can use these models as lenses to see, interpret, and analyze the infinite complexity of our natural and man-made environments. With the geodatabase, a new geographic data model introduced with ArcInfo 8, you can extend significantly the level of detail and range of accuracy with which you can model geographic reality in a database environment.

Modeling Our World is the comprehensive guide and reference to GIS data modeling in general, and to the geodatabase model in particular. It shows how to make the right decisions about modeling data—decisions that will inform each aspect of a GIS project, from database design and data capture to spatial analysis and visual presentation.

You will learn to:

  • Design a geographic database that fits the project
  • Customize the database without writing code
  • Manage work flows in complex projects
  • Model diverse linear systems such as streams, freeways, or electrical grids
  • Incorporate satellite images for geographic analysis and display
  • Create three-dimensional GIS data models

Illustrated with hundreds of full-color maps and figures, Modeling Our World will be essential reading for a wide audience. Seasoned ArcGIS users and serious new users of the software will find that Modeling Our World is required reading on the path to GIS success.

For the GIS specialist, this provides a good introduction to the broader database world. For the database specialist, this book serves as a good answer to the question "what is so special about spatial?"

—Scott Morehouse, Director of Software Development, ESRI

 

Table of Contents:

Object modeling and geodatabases
Modeling objects with GIS
The progress of geographic data models
The geodatabase, store of geographic data
Features in an object-oriented data model
Serving geographic data
Accessing geographic data
Building data models
Guide to reading UML object diagrams
Technology trends
How maps inform
The utility of maps
How maps present information
The parts of a map
Presenting geography with layers
Drawing features with symbols
Drawing feature layers
Classifying attribute values
Displaying thematic, spectral, and picture data
Visualizing surfaces with TIN layers
GIS data representations
The fundamentals of a GIS
The diverse applications of GIS
Three representations of the world
Modeling surfaces
Modeling imaged or sampled data
Modeling discrete features
Comparing spatial data representations
The structure of geographic data
The catalog and connections to data
The geodatabase, datasets, and feature classes
ArcInfo workspaces and coverages
Shapefiles and CAD files
Maps and layers
Comparing the structure of vector datasets
Comparing feature geometry in vector datasets
Smart features
The qualities of features
Steps to making features smart
Designing the geodatabase
Storing data in tables
The shape and extent of features
Attributes: qualities of an object
Adding simple behavior with subtypes
Validating attributes
Relationships among objects
Extending object classes
The geodatabase object model
The shape of features
Geometry and features
Constructing geometry
Testing spatial relationships
Applying topological operators
Geometry object model
Managing work flow with versions
Using versions
Long transactions and the geodatabase
The fundamentals of versions
Editing versioned geodatabases
Types of work flows
Linear modeling with networks
Modeling infrastructure
The network model
How features connect
Network features
Network flow
Analysis on a network
Network object model
Cell-based modeling with rasters
Representing geography with rasters
Using raster data
Raster data model
Raster display and analysis
The spatial context of rasters
Raster formats
Raster object model
Surface modeling with TINs
Representing surfaces
Structure of a TIN
Modeling surface features
Finding locations
Using locations
Converting locations to map features
Converting x,y locations
Converting addresses
Converting place names
Converting postal zones
Converting route locations
Geodatabase design guide
Purpose and goals of design
Overview of design steps
Step 1: Model the user's view
Step 2: Define entities and relationships
Step 3: Identify representation of entities
Step 4: Match to geodatabase data model
Step 5: Organize into geographic data sets
Index