Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems
Published on 1. December 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-0-13-294786-2 (ISBN)
Description
Designed to make the complexity of this rapidly-growing high-tech field accessible to beginning students, this text provides a basic, non-technical and student-friendly introduction to GIS. The book clearly links theory and practice, and helps apply the material to the real world by providing interviews with practising GIS professionals. It features simple explanations, many illustrations and photographs, extensive chapter-end study aids, and generic laboratory assignments for use with any GIS software.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Upper Saddle River
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
illustrations, photographs, index
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
739 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-294786-2 (9780132947862)
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Other editions
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Keith C. Clarke
Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems
Book
08/1998
2nd Edition
Pearson
€32.18
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Content
What is a GIS?; GIS's roots in cartography; getting the map into the computer; maps as numbers; what is where?; why is it there?; making maps with GIS; how to pick a GIS; GIS in action; the future of GIS.