| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 283 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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| Series |
New horizons in Islamic studies |
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New horizons in Islamic studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introducing Geographic Information Systems in Islamic Area Studies -- Spatial data construction and a method for preliminary analysis: Constructing spatial databases from old paper documents; Constructing spatial databases from old maps : a case in historical studies; An exploratory method for discovering qualitatively changed areas using low resolution remotely sensed data : a case in the Persian Gulf area during 1982-1993; Estimating land use using high resolution remotely sensed data (Landsat TM) : a case study in Ponneri, India -- Regional analysis: Islamic rule and local society in eighteenth century South India; Modeling the spatial structure of the administrative system in Ponneri, India, during the late eighteenth century; The Ferghana project : central Asian area studies with GIS; The use of GIS to locate abandoned villages listed in the Temettuat registers of Bal'kesir county, Anatolia -- Urban analysis: The spatial structure of commercial areas in Turkey and other Islamic countries; The water supplies and public fountains in Istanbul -- Network analysis with space syntax: Application of GIS to network analysis : characterization of traditional Turkish urban street networks; A three-dimensional analysis of the street network in Istanbul : an extension of space syntax using GIS; The space occupied by marketplaces and their societies in the Islamic world with particular reference to Isfahan and Istanbul -- 3-dimensional spatial analysis: Three-dimensional view analysis using GIS : the locational tendency of mosques in Bursa, Turkey; An analysis on the visibility of minarets in Sana's old city of Yemen. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
In this volume the contributors use Geographical Information Systems to reassess both historic and contemporary Asian countries and traditionally Islamic areas. |
| Subject |
Geographic information systems -- Asia.
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Geographic information systems -- Islamic countries.
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Asia -- Geography.
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Islamic countries -- Geography.
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Geographic information systems. (OCoLC)fst00940423
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Geography. (OCoLC)fst00940469
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Asia. (OCoLC)fst01240495
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Islamic countries. (OCoLC)fst01244130
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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| Added Author |
Okabe, Atsuyuki, 1945-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Islamic area studies with geographical information systems. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 0415332508 (DLC) 2003015744 (OCoLC)52622245 |
| ISBN |
0203401425 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203401422 (electronic bk.) |
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0415332508 (Cloth) |
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