Exploring Geographic Information Systems - Softcover

Chrisman, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471314250 ISBN 13: 9780471314257

Publisher: Wiley, 2001

Synopsis

This revision builds upon the strength of the highly successful first edition. The organizing framework for Exploring Geographic Information Systems simultaneously views the subject as a technical problem, as an empowering application, as a scientific endeavor, as an academic pursuit and as a social necessity. The author's philosophy towards teaching a GIS course is to focus on critical thinking. This focus allows students to gain the ability to make judgements concerning the fitness of tools and information sources.

About this title

About the Author

Nick Chrisman, University of Washington

From the Back Cover

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the organized activity by which people:

• measure aspects of geographic phenomena and processes
• represent these measurements, usually in the form of a computer database, to emphasize spatial themes, entities, and relationships
• operate upon these representations to produce more measurements, and to discover new relationships by integrating disparate sources; and
• transform these representations to conform to other frameworks of entities and relationships.

These activities reflect the larger context, such as institutions and cultures, in which these people carry out their work. In turn, the GIS may influence these structures.

This text provides the comprehensive coverage you will need to master this powerful new technology.

• measure aspects of geographic phenomena and processes
• represent these measurements, usually in the form of a computer database, to emphasize spatial themes, entities, and relationships
• operate upon these representations to produce more measurements, and to discover new relationships by integrating disparate sources; and
• transform these representations to conform to other frameworks of entities and relationships.

These activities reflect the larger context, such as institutions and cultures, in which these people carry out their work. In turn, the GIS may influence these structures.

This text provides the comprehensive coverage you will need to master this powerful new technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471314250
• ISBN 13: 9780471314257
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320