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GIS for dummies / Michael N DeMers.

By: Series: --For dummiesHoboken, NJ : Wiley, �2009Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780470236826
  • 0470236825
Other title:
  • Geographic information systems for dummies
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • G70.212 .D467 2009
Contents:
GIS : geography on steroids: Seeing the scope of GIS ; Recognizing how maps show information ; Reading, analyzing, and interpreting maps -- Geography goes digital: Creating a conceptual model ; Understanding the GIS data models ; Keeping track of data descriptions ; Managing multiple maps ; Gathering and digitizing geographic data -- Retrieving, counting, and characterizing geography: Finding information in raster systems ; Finding features in vector systems ; Searching for geographic objects, distributions, and groups -- Analyzing geographic patterns: Measuring distance ; Working with statistical surfaces ; Exploring topographical surfaces ; Working with networks ; Comparing multiple maps ; Map algebra and model building -- GIS output and application: Producing cartographic output ; Generating non-cartographic output ; GIS in organizations -- The part of tens: Ten GIS software vendors ; Ten questions to ask potential vendors ; Ten GIS data sources.
Summary: Examines the diverse applications of geographic information systems, with explanations of how GIS technology captures, stores, counts, characterizes, integrates, analyzes, and displays data, and a discussion of spatial and mapping concepts, GIS system components, and how to design, implement, and navigate a GIS system.
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Includes index.

GIS : geography on steroids: Seeing the scope of GIS ; Recognizing how maps show information ; Reading, analyzing, and interpreting maps -- Geography goes digital: Creating a conceptual model ; Understanding the GIS data models ; Keeping track of data descriptions ; Managing multiple maps ; Gathering and digitizing geographic data -- Retrieving, counting, and characterizing geography: Finding information in raster systems ; Finding features in vector systems ; Searching for geographic objects, distributions, and groups -- Analyzing geographic patterns: Measuring distance ; Working with statistical surfaces ; Exploring topographical surfaces ; Working with networks ; Comparing multiple maps ; Map algebra and model building -- GIS output and application: Producing cartographic output ; Generating non-cartographic output ; GIS in organizations -- The part of tens: Ten GIS software vendors ; Ten questions to ask potential vendors ; Ten GIS data sources.

Examines the diverse applications of geographic information systems, with explanations of how GIS technology captures, stores, counts, characterizes, integrates, analyzes, and displays data, and a discussion of spatial and mapping concepts, GIS system components, and how to design, implement, and navigate a GIS system.

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