This book treats the notion of morphisms in spatial analysis, paralleling these concepts in spatial statistics (Part I) and spatial econometrics (Part II). The principal concept is morphism (e.g., isomorphisms, homomorphisms, and allomorphisms), which is defined as a structure preserving the...

1. Introduction to spatial statistics and data handling -- 1.1. A brief historical background -- 1.2. The principal problem of spatial statistics -- 1.3. Spatial sampling perspectives -- 1.4. Models of spatial autocorrelation -- 1.5. Towards a theory of spatial statistics -- 1.6 References --...