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Modeling Cycles in Geospatial Domains

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Event, cyclic; Event, recurrent; Event, periodic

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In a geospatial context, cycles can be defined as regularly repeated phenomena or events. According to the distribution of this kind of happening over time, cycles can be classified as strong periodic, near periodic, or intermittent. Strong periodicity refers to cycles in which the duration of every occurrence of the event is the same as is the temporal interval between two consecutive occurrences. Train schedules and tidal movements are examples of events with a strong periodic pattern of repetition. The second class of periodicity deals with events that occur regularly, but the occurrences do not necessarily have the same duration nor are they equally spaced in time. For this kind of cycle, the duration of events and the temporal gap between each of them may vary in a stochastic or deterministic manner. The spill of a geyser is an example of a near periodic event. The third class of periodicity deals with events...

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  1. Department of Exact Sciences, Salvador University – UNIFACS, Salvador, Brazil

    Jorge Campos

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Campos, J. (2008). Modeling Cycles in Geospatial Domains. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_806

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