Handbook of Geographic Information Science (Blackwell Companions to Geography) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405107960 ISBN 13: 9781405107969

Publisher: *Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

This Handbook is an essential reference and a guide to the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Science.

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• Designed for students and researchers who want an in-depth treatment of the subject, including background information
  
• Comprises around 40 substantial essays, each written by a recognized expert in a particular area
  
• Covers the full spectrum of research in GIS
  
• Surveys the increasing number of applications of GIS
  
• Predicts how GIS is likely to evolve in the near future

About this title

About the Author

John P. Wilson is Professor of Geography and Director of the GIS Research Laboratory at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

A. Stewart Fotheringham is Director of the National Centre for Geocomputation at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

They are both editors of the journal Transactions in GIS, also published by Blackwell.

From the Back Cover

This Handbook is an essential reference and a guide to the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Science. Designed to suit those who want an in-depth treatment of the subject, it comprises over thirty substantial essays, each written by a recognized expert in a particular area.

The Handbook covers the full spectrum of research in the field. Contributors explore the major trends influencing the collection, organization, and dissemination of geographically referenced data sets, and review the defining characteristics of the database solutions used in GIS products. They consider the opportunities for using GIS to conduct spatial analysis, and examine the ways in which it has been used to advance cartographic modeling and visualization. Finally, they portray GIS at work, surveying its increasing number of applications.

The editors introduce the Handbook with an essential overview of the origins, history, and state of the art of Geographic Information Science, before providing brief summaries of the chapters that follow. They conclude the book with two final chapters setting out how Geographic Information Science is likely to evolve in the future.

The Handbook covers the full spectrum of research in the field. Contributors explore the major trends influencing the collection, organization, and dissemination of geographically referenced data sets, and review the defining characteristics of the database solutions used in GIS products. They consider the opportunities for using GIS to conduct spatial analysis, and examine the ways in which it has been used to advance cartographic modeling and visualization. Finally, they portray GIS at work, surveying its increasing number of applications.

The editors introduce the Handbook with an essential overview of the origins, history, and state of the art of Geographic Information Science, before providing brief summaries of the chapters that follow. They conclude the book with two final chapters setting out how Geographic Information Science is likely to evolve in the future.

Edition details

• Publisher: *Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405107960
• ISBN 13: 9781405107969
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 652
• Editor: John P. Wilson, A. Stewart Fotheringham