List of Contributors .......................................... vii
1 Introduction: What is a Self-Organizing Map? ................. 1
André Skupin and Pragya Agarwal
2 Applications of Different Self-Organizing Map Variants to
Geographical Information Science Problems ................... 21
Fernando Ваçãо, Victor Lobo and Marco Painho
3 An Integrated Exploratory Geovisualization Environment
Based on Self-Organizing Map ................................ 45
Etien L. Koua and Menno-Jan Kraak
4 Visual Exploration of Spatial Interaction Data with Self-
Organizing Maps ............................................. 67
Jun Yan and Jean-Claude Thill
5 Detecting Geographic Associations in English Dialect
Features in North America within a Visual Data Mining
Environment Integrating Self-Organizing Maps ................ 87
Jean-Claude Thill, William A. Kretzschmar Jr, Irene
Casas and Xiaobai Yao
6 Self-Organizing Maps for Density-Preserving Reduction
of Objects in Cartographic Generalization .................. 107
Monika Sester
7 Visualizing Human Movement in Attribute Space .............. 121
André Skupin
8 Climate Analysis, Modelling, and Regional Downscaling
Using Self-Organizing Maps ................................. 137
Bruce C. Hewitson
9 Prototyping Broad-Scale Climate and Ecosystem Classes
by Means of Self-Organising Maps ........................... 155
Jiirgen P. Kropp and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
10 Self-Organising Map Principles Applied Towards
Automating Road Extraction from Remotely Sensed Imagery .... 177
Pete Doucette, Peggy Agouris and Anthony Stefanidis
11 Epilogue: Intelligent Systems for GIScience: Where Next?
A GIScience Perspective .................................... 195
Michael Goodchild
Index ......................................................... 199
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