β Scribed by Paul A. Longley, Michael F. Goodchild, David J. Maguire, David W. Rhind
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
If you want to know how GIS works, this book will give you a complete picture of it.
Title
......Page 1
Contents......Page 12
I. Introduction
......Page 16
1. Systems, science and study
......Page 17
2.
A Gallery of Applications......Page 48
II. Principles
......Page 74
3. Representing Geography
......Page 75
4.
The Nature of G eographic Data......Page 96
5. Georeferencing
......Page 119
6. Uncertainty
......Page 137
III. Techniques
......Page 164
7. GIS Software
......Page 165
8. Geographic Data Modeling
......Page 184
9. GIS Data Collection
......Page 205
10. Creating and Maintaining Geographic Databases
......Page 223
11. Distributed GIS
......Page 246
IV. Analysis
......Page 265
12. Cartography and Map Production
......Page 266
13. Geovisualization
......Page 315
14. Query, Measurement and Transformation
......Page 340
15. Descriptive Summary, Design and Inference
......Page 365
16. Spatial Modeling with GIS
......Page 387
V. Management and Policy
......Page 407
17. Managing GIs
......Page 408
18. GIS and Management the Knowledge Economy and Information
......Page 427
19. Exploiting GIS Assets and Navigating Constraints
......Page 447
20. GIS Partnerships
......Page 468
21. Epilog
......Page 492
Index
......Page 508
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