Description GIS Tutorial 2: Spatial Analysis Workbook, provides hands-on exercises to help GIS users at the intermediate level build problem-solving and analysis skills. A companion to the concepts in The Esri® Guide to GIS Analysis book series, GIS Tutorial 2 offers experience with various spatial analysis methods, …

Description This guide to remote sensing technology presents GIS managers who have no previous remote sensing experience with the basics of integrating it with GIS data. How to use remote sensing technology as geographic data is demonstrated, as is how remote sensing products are the perfect complement to GIS-based …

Description This book presents a novel computation of the topographic LS factor of the USLE model to estimate spatial soil erosion. In developing countries, soil erosion is one of the main concerns as it adversely affects agriculture and reduces food production. Therefore, the author presents a particularly relevant …

Description GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition, provides a full, up-to-date overview of GIS, both Geographic Information Systems and the study of Geographic Information Science. Analyzing the subject from a computing perspective, the second edition explores conceptual and formal models needed to understand …

Description This white paper is written with the support from the National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence (GeoTech Center, http://www.geotechcenter.org/). The goal of this paper is to assist GIS educators at various institutes (high schools, community colleges and universities) towards understanding the …

Description Building on the foundation of the previous three editions, Getting to Know Web GIS, fourth edition, features the latest advances in Esri’s entire Web GIS platform, from the cloud server side to the client side. Discover and apply what’s new in ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, Map Viewer, Esri StoryMaps, …

Description This is the first book to provide sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry. The book contains a wealth of examples as to why these techniques are worth doing, over …

Description The hard part of problem solving using GIS analysis is the selection of the proper tools. David Verbyla has produced the only practical guide for solving geo-spatial problems which is independent of specific GIS software and hardware. It will teach you how GIS tools work, and how you can use them to solve …

Description This book provides an overview of the latest developments in the fast growing field of tangible user interfaces. It presents a new type of modeling environment where the users interact with geospatial data and simulations using 3D physical landscape model coupled with 3D rendering engine. Multiple users can …

Description A practical guide to coordinate reference systems, Datums and Map Projections: For Remote Sensing, GIS and Surveying has become a key book for many students and professionals around the world. While retaining the benefits of the first edition - clear presentation assuming no prior knowledge, a …