Geographic Information Systems and Science

Paul Longley

John Wiley & Sons, Apr 15, 2005 - Science - 517 pages

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.

What people are saying

Review: Geographic Information Systems and Science

User Review  - Lauren - Goodreads

A primer. Has some of the throwaway, overwrought language of a high school textbook attempting to make up for its inability to get in depth with such basic, cornerstone material, but I have learned many things since I began reading it.

Review: Geographic Information Systems and Science

User Review  - Laura - Goodreads

VERY well-written book, interesting and full of examples and vignettes. Could use a little help in the math department, but other than that, it's a fabulous introduction to GIS.

Contents

• Systems science and study: 3
• Questions for further study: 33
• Representing geography: 63
• The nature of geographic data: 85
• Questions for further study: 107
• Questions for further study: 126
• Questions for further study: 153
• Further reading: 175
• transfer: 211
• Creating and maintaining geographic: 217
• Questions for further study: 238
• Cartography and map production: 263
• Geovisualization: 289
• Questions for further study: 312
• Descriptive summary design: 341
• Questions for further study: 362
• Managing GIS: 385
• Questions for further study: 402
• Exploiting GIS assets and navigating: 425
• Questions for further study: 445
• Index: 487

About the author

Longley-University of Bristol, UK

Bibliographic information

• Title: Geographic Information Systems and Science
• Editor: Paul Longley
• Contributor: Paul Longley
• Edition: 2, abridged, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2005
• ISBN: 0470870001, 9780470870006
• Length: 517 pages
• Subjects: Science / Earth Sciences / Geography; Technology & Engineering / Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems