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Chor Pang Lo, University of Georgia
Albert K.W. Yeung, Ontario Police College

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Cloth; 544 pp

ISBN-10: 013149502X
ISBN-13:9780131495029Help icon

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Published: 25 Oct 2006
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For Geographic Information Systems courses held in departments of Geography or Anthropology.

 

Fully updated to reflect advances in GIS concepts and techniques, this text approaches the subject from the broader context of information technology. Complete, up-to-date coverage is given to the concepts and techniques pertaining to every stage of the systems development life cycle of GIS, as well as its applications to various areas of spatial problem solving and decision making. Emphasizes GIS and mainstream IT integration. Explores new spatial analysis techniques/landscape metrics. Expands discussion of geovisualization. Examines new terrain data acquisition by LiDAR. Covers emerging technology in mobile computing and location-based services.
 
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