Geographic Information Systems and Science

The first edition of Geographic Information Systems and Science has taken the GIS textbook market by storm, selling over 22,000 copies since publication. It is the most current, authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the field, that goes from fundamental principles to the big picture.

List of contents

From the contents:
Part 1: Systems and Science
Chapter 1: What is GIS?
Chapter 2: Systems and Structure: GIS as a system
Chapter 3: The Special Characteristics of Spatial Data

Part 2: Management
Chapter 4: Making the GIS efficient, effective and safe to use
Chapter 5: Data management and the management of GIS
Chapter 6: Societal issues

Part 3: Principles
Chapter 7: The nature of GI
Chapter 8: Spatial representation
Chapter 9: Geographic information science
Chapter 10: Visualization

Part 4: Techniques
Chapter 11: GIS hardware
Chapter 12: GIS software
Chapter 13: The Internet and its impact on GIS
Chapter 14: The future of GIS

Product details

• Authors: Michael F. Goodchild, Paul A. Longley, Paul A. Goodchild Longley, David J. Maguire
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2005
• EAN: 9780470870013
• ISBN: 978-0-470-87001-3
• No. of pages: 536
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 260 mm x 27 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology