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TABLE      OF    CONTENTS


        PREFACE                                                         ix
        CHAPTER     1:  Spatiotemporal  Mapping  in  Natural  Sciences  1
          Mapping  Fundamentals                                         1
          The  Epistemic  Status of  Modern  Spatiotemporal Geostatistics:
              It  Pays to  Theorize!                                   11
          Why  Modern  Geostatistics?                                  14
            Scientific  content                                        15
            Indetermination thesis                                     16
            Spatiotemporal geometry                                    19
            Sources of  physical  knowledge                            20
            The  non-Procrustean  spirit                               20
          Bayesian  Maximum  Entropy  Space/Time Analysis  and  Mapping  21
            BME  features                                              22
          The  Integration  Capability of  Modern  Spatiotemporal  Geostatistics  ....  23
          The  "Knowledge-Map"  Approach                               24
        CHAPTER     2:  Spatiotemporal  Geometry                       25
          A  More  Realistic Concept                                   25
          The  Spatiotemporal Continuum  Idea                          26
          The  Coordinate System                                       32
            Euclidean  coordinate  systems                             35
            Non-Euclidean  coordinate systems                          38
           Metrical  Structure                                         42
            Separate  metrical  structures                             43
            Composite  metrical  structures                            50
            Some  comments  on  physical  Spatiotemporal  geometry     52
          The  Field  Idea                                             54
             Restrictions on Spatiotemporal  geometry  imposed  by field
              measurements  and  natural  media                         54
             Restrictions on  Spatiotemporal  geometry  imposed  by  physical  laws  56
          The  Complementarity  Idea                                   58
           Putting Things  Together:  The Spatiotemporal Random
               Field  Concept                                          59
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