Geographic Information Systems: A Management Perspective
by Stan Aronoff
Sales Rank: 1394516
$0.44 At Amazon
Hardcover: 294 pages
Publisher: Wdl Pubns November 1991
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0921804911
ISBN-13: 978-0921804918
Product Dimensions:
10 x 7 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Customer Reviews & Comments
This is the only text I have used in teaching intro GIS courses for the last four years. It's getting a little long in the tooth--it was written over ten years ago and the hardware illustrations in particular are quite out of date--but the presentation of the fundamentals is still uniformly solid. Newer developments, like LIDAR, GPS, and 3D visualization, are not in this book at all, but are readily learned on the Web, which tends to focus on new stuff and go light on presentations of fundamentals: Web-based GIS materials and this book complement each other well. The focus is on using a GIS for decision making and support, which leads to a good balance between management and technical issues. And unlike many other (popular) GIS texts, this one is not riddled with typographical and technical errors.
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