Geographic Information Systems and Science Author: Amazon Prime | Language: English | ISBN:
0470721448 | Format: PDF
Geographic Information Systems and Science Description
The Third Edition of this bestselling textbook has been fully revised and updated to include the latest developments in the field and still retains its accessible format to appeal to a broad range of students.
Now divided into five clear sections the book investigates the unique, complex and difficult problems that are posed by geographic information and together they build into a holistic understanding of the key principles of GIS.
This is the most current, authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the field, that goes from fundamental principles to the big picture of:
- GIS and the New World Order
- security, health and well-being
- digital differentiation in GIS consumption
- the core organizing role of GIS in Geography
- the greening of GIS
- grand challenges of GIScience
- science and explanation
Key features:
- Four-colour throughout
- Associated website with free online resources
- Teacher’s manual available for lecturers
- A complete learning resource, with accompanying instructor links, free online lab resources and personal syllabi
- Includes learning objectives and review boxes throughout each chapter
New in this edition:
- Completely revised with a new five part structure: Foundations; Principles; Techniques; Analysis; Management and Policy
- All new personality boxes of current GIS practitioners
- New chapters on Distributed GIS, Map Production, Geovisualization, Modeling, and Managing GIS
- Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (August 9, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470721448
- ISBN-13: 978-0470721445
- Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I am currently taking the companion online training course offered via ESRI with this reference. I have a Bachelor's degree in GIS and 12+ years experience. This is a very good, overall GIS reference that explains higher level GIS . . and gives a good background on elementary GIS concepts (for those of us who have been in the field long enough to need a review). I highly recommend this book for GIS professionals.
By Leslie Jacobs
If you're a teacher, don't use this book. Use the excellent books from ESRI instead. Just as an example, the authors wasted half the first chapter discussing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Then they spent considerable effort building nuanced definitions of common terms such as data. Someone studying GIS on a short time schedule doesn't need these philosophical essays about terminology. Perhaps they were just padding the book so it would qualify as a textbook or maybe they really believed that they were the only ones who had ever pondered the difference between knowledge and wisdom and they needed to educate the rest of us. Then they go on to describe the internet and it's history as if they spent the last 20 years in a bomb shelter. Then an essay about the scientific method which we learned in third grade. But the real problem is the long, complicated, boring and redundant sentences, page after never-ending page. They should have contracted it out to professional writers. Compare it to the ESRI books and you'll see what I mean.
By a dad
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