Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems

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Atsuyuki Okabe
Routledge, Aug 2, 2004 - Political Science - 312 pages
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

List of figures
Introducing geographical information systems in islamic area studies
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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About the author (2004)

Atsuyuki Okabe is Professor at the Department of Urban Engineering and Director of the Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo.

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