Publisher's Synopsis
This two-volume set comprises the proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, held in Edinburgh in 1994 under the auspices of the International Geographical Union Commission on GIS and the Association for Geographic Information.;It contains over 70 papers - each of which has been reviewed by at least three internationally acknowledged experts - which together can be considered representative of the core of world-wide scientific achievement from researchers working to identify and develop new and effective approaches to handling geographic data. From computerised cartography through spatio-temporal modelling to object-orientated, this text provides a thorough review of the field of GIS.
