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Geographic Information Systems and Science
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by Paul A. Longley, Michael F. Goodchild, David J. Maguire, and David W. Rhind
Sales Rank: 1312857
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Discount: 14 %
List Price: $163.00
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Hardcover: 536 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition April 15, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470870001
ISBN-13: 978-0470870006
Product Dimensions:
10.3 x 8 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
Product Review
“A powerful textbook” (ISPRS Highlights, May 2006)
Product Description
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.
GISS 2e builds on the success of the first 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
- Specific coverage of current hot topics:
- 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 GIS science
- Science and explanation
A new suite of instructor resources including a companion website with an on-line lab resource and personal student sullabus and a cehensive Instructor’s Manual that maps the textbook to various disciplines and levels of courses.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Geographic Information Systems and Science (Paperback)
I bought this book to provide the intellectual background to "Getting to know ArcGIS", for a class I'm taking. It's fine for that, I guess, with one caveat: I found it very slow reading, for a number of reasons. At the outset, a lot of time is spent justifying why the 'S' in "GIS" stands for 'Science', not just 'Systems'. They talk a lot about how GIS helps in generating fundamental theories of science, but doesn't really offer examples. It just came off like a bunch of academics who just don't get enough respect. But there's nothing wrong with technology, and I don't know why the authors would want to justify what is clearly technology as science. (Technology is the application of science, in my book). Another problem, for me at least, is that it is written at such a basic level. It takes a whole page or more, talking about how data can be ordinal, nominal, categorical, etc. I just felt like the book could have been a third of the size it is, without losing much. I recognise that not all readers will find this the problem I did. I can see why it's highly regarded: apparently, it is really the first book to gather everything you need to know about GIS under one cover, and that's no mean feat. If you have an engineering/physical science background (bachelor's level), and have ever written your own computer program, you'll likely find it tediously slow and overly explicit. (If you already know the difference between 'raster' and 'vector' graphics you'll likely feel this book is too slow.) It's still worth reading for the history it gives about the field, and the profiles of current GIS users.
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