Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS
Jochen Albrecht
- Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
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"Albrecht's slim volume is an important contribution to users and teachers of geographic information systems. It is a distillation of the core functions available in contemporary workstation GIS systems, functions likely to become common on Web mapping systems like Google Earth and MS Virtual Earth. Well written and up-to-date, this book is an excellent complement to the voluminous documentation provided by software and solutions vendors."
—CHOICE
Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is a concise overview of the fundamental ideas that inform Geographic Information Science. It provides detailed descriptions of the concepts and techniques that anyone using GIS software must fully understand to analyze spatial data.
Short and clearly focused chapters provide explanations of:
Illustrated throughout with explanatory figures, the text also includes a glossary, cross referenced to discussion in the text. Written very much from a user's perspective, Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is highly readable "refresher course" for intermediate level students and practitioners of GIS in the social and the natural sciences.
—CHOICE
Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is a concise overview of the fundamental ideas that inform Geographic Information Science. It provides detailed descriptions of the concepts and techniques that anyone using GIS software must fully understand to analyze spatial data.
Short and clearly focused chapters provide explanations of:
- Spatial relationships and spatial data
- The creation of digital data, the use and access of existing data, and the combination of data
- The use of modeling techniques and the essential functions of map algebra
- Spatial statistics and spatial analysis
- Geocomputation – including discussion of neural networks, cellular automata, and agent-based modeling
Illustrated throughout with explanatory figures, the text also includes a glossary, cross referenced to discussion in the text. Written very much from a user's perspective, Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is highly readable "refresher course" for intermediate level students and practitioners of GIS in the social and the natural sciences.
Contents
Creating Digital Data
Creating Digital Data
Accessing Existing Data
Accessing Existing Data
Handling Uncertainty
Handling Uncertainty
Spatial Search
Spatial Search
Spatial Relationships
Spatial Relationships
Combining Spatial Data
Combining Spatial Data
Location-Allocation
Location-Allocation
Map Algebra
Map Algebra
Terrain Modeling
Terrain Modeling
Spatial Statistics
Spatial Statistics
Geocomputation
Geocomputation
Epilogue
- Four-dimensional Modeling
Description
"Albrecht's slim volume is an important contribution to users and teachers of geographic information systems. It is a distillation of the core functions available in contemporary workstation GIS systems, functions likely to become common on Web mapping systems like Google Earth and MS Virtual Earth. Well written and up-to-date, this book is an excellent complement to the voluminous documentation provided by software and solutions vendors."
—CHOICE
Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is a concise overview of the fundamental ideas that inform Geographic Information Science. It provides detailed descriptions of the concepts and techniques that anyone using GIS software must fully understand to analyze spatial data.
Short and clearly focused chapters provide explanations of:
Illustrated throughout with explanatory figures, the text also includes a glossary, cross referenced to discussion in the text. Written very much from a user's perspective, Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is highly readable "refresher course" for intermediate level students and practitioners of GIS in the social and the natural sciences.
—CHOICE
Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is a concise overview of the fundamental ideas that inform Geographic Information Science. It provides detailed descriptions of the concepts and techniques that anyone using GIS software must fully understand to analyze spatial data.
Short and clearly focused chapters provide explanations of:
- Spatial relationships and spatial data
- The creation of digital data, the use and access of existing data, and the combination of data
- The use of modeling techniques and the essential functions of map algebra
- Spatial statistics and spatial analysis
- Geocomputation – including discussion of neural networks, cellular automata, and agent-based modeling
Illustrated throughout with explanatory figures, the text also includes a glossary, cross referenced to discussion in the text. Written very much from a user's perspective, Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is highly readable "refresher course" for intermediate level students and practitioners of GIS in the social and the natural sciences.
Contents
Creating Digital Data
Creating Digital Data
Accessing Existing Data
Accessing Existing Data
Handling Uncertainty
Handling Uncertainty
Spatial Search
Spatial Search
Spatial Relationships
Spatial Relationships
Combining Spatial Data
Combining Spatial Data
Location-Allocation
Location-Allocation
Map Algebra
Map Algebra
Terrain Modeling
Terrain Modeling
Spatial Statistics
Spatial Statistics
Geocomputation
Geocomputation
Epilogue
- Four-dimensional Modeling
Reviews
September 2007 | 120 pages | Sage UK
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"Albrecht's slim volume is an important contribution to users and teachers of geographic information systems. It is a distillation of the core functions available in contemporary workstation GIS systems, functions likely to become common on Web mapping systems like Google Earth and MS Virtual Earth. Well written and up-to-date, this book is an excellent complement to the voluminous documentation provided by software and solutions vendors."
—CHOICE
Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is a concise overview of the fundamental ideas that inform Geographic Information Science. It provides detailed descriptions of the concepts and techniques that anyone using GIS software must fully understand to analyze spatial data.
Short and clearly focused chapters provide explanations of:
Illustrated throughout with explanatory figures, the text also includes a glossary, cross referenced to discussion in the text. Written very much from a user's perspective, Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is highly readable "refresher course" for intermediate level students and practitioners of GIS in the social and the natural sciences.
—CHOICE
Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is a concise overview of the fundamental ideas that inform Geographic Information Science. It provides detailed descriptions of the concepts and techniques that anyone using GIS software must fully understand to analyze spatial data.
Short and clearly focused chapters provide explanations of:
- Spatial relationships and spatial data
- The creation of digital data, the use and access of existing data, and the combination of data
- The use of modeling techniques and the essential functions of map algebra
- Spatial statistics and spatial analysis
- Geocomputation – including discussion of neural networks, cellular automata, and agent-based modeling
Illustrated throughout with explanatory figures, the text also includes a glossary, cross referenced to discussion in the text. Written very much from a user's perspective, Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS is highly readable "refresher course" for intermediate level students and practitioners of GIS in the social and the natural sciences.
Table Of Contents:
- Creating Digital Data
- Accessing Existing Data
- Handling Uncertainty
- Spatial Search
- Spatial Relationships
- Combining Spatial Data
- Location-Allocation
- Map Algebra
- Terrain Modeling
- Spatial Statistics
- Geocomputation
- Epilogue
- Four-dimensional Modeling
Recent Product Reviews:
This book provides a good overview on GIS techniques. Students appreciate the well explained concepts. It's a supplementaly literature that will help students in Spring 2011 to enrich their case studies by considering GIS techniques within their research.
Mrs Yvonne Franz, Department of Geography, University of Vienna
This is too sketchy to be used in class. This cannot ever be a text book.
Professor Gaurav Sinha, Geography Dept, Ohio University
"Well written and up-to-date, this book is an excellent complement to the voluminous documentation provided by software and solutions vendors. A must-have for libraries, practitioners, and researchers using GIS."
E.J. Delaney, National Park Service
"Albrecht's slim volume is an important contribution to users and teachers of geographic information systems. It is a distillation of the core functions available in contemporary workstation GIS systems, functions likely to become common on Web mapping systems like Google Earth and MS Virtual Earth. Well written and up-to-date, this book is an excellent complement to the voluminous documentation provided by software and solutions vendors."—CHOICE
E.J. Delaney, National Park Service