Overview: Neural nets offer a fascinating new strategy for spatialanalysis, and their application holds enormous potential for thegeographic sciences. However, the number of studies that have utilizedthese techniques is limited. This lack of interest can be attributed,in part, to lack of exposure, to the use of extensive and oftenconfusing jargon, and to the misapprehension that, without anunderlying statistical model, the explanatory power of the neural netis very low..Neural Nets: Applications for Geography. attacksall three issues; the text demonstrates a wide variety of neural netapplicati
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