Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information SystemsAtsuyuki Okabe In this volume the contributors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to reassess both historic and contemporary Asian countries and traditionally Islamic areas. This highly illustrated and comprehensive work highlights how GIS can be applied to the social sciences. With its description of how to process, construct and manage geographical data the book is ideal for the non-specialist looking for a new and refreshing way to approach Islamic area studies. |
Contents
Constructing spatial databases from old paper documents | |
a case in historical studies | |
An exploratory method for discovering qualitatively changed areas | |
Estimating land use using high resolution remotely sensed data Landsat | |
Islamic rule and local society in eighteenthcentury South India | |
Modeling the spatial structure of the administrative system in Ponneri | |
The use of Gis to locate abandoned villages listed in the Temettuat | |
The spatial structure of commercial areas in Turkey and other Islamic | |
The water supplies and public fountains of Ottoman Istanbul | |
characterization of traditional | |
The space occupied by marketplaces and their societies in the Islamic | |
the locational tendency | |
An analysis on the visibility of Minarets in Sanaa Old City of Yemen | |
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Aleppo analyzing annual trend curve aqueducts Arabic cities Asami attribute data axial map Balıkesir Barnard Report boundaries buildings built Bursa bustan Caste composition çeşmes Chapter commercial area constructed courtyards data sets digital map discriminant function district Estimated location example extended axial curve extended axial lines Ferghana Valley geographical data geographical information systems GI-cores global Göynük Halkalı height historical independent tessellations indices integration Isfahan Islamic area studies Islamic city Istanbul külliye land magan system markets minarets mirasidars mosques Muslim Old City open spaces Ottoman paper maps Pasha percentage plazas poligar polygons Ponneri population public fountains Qayrawan region remotely sensed road Safranbolu Sana'a shops shown in Figure shows Soviet space syntax spatial data spatial objects spatial tessellations street networks Sultan Table Tajiks three-dimensional traditional Turkey Turkish cities University of Tokyo urban Uzbeks variables viewpoints village visibility area visible quantity visible rate void zamindari system