Description Desktop GIS explores the world of Open Source GIS software and provides a guide to navigate the many options available. Discover what kind of GIS user you are and lay the foundation to evaluate the options and decide what software is best for you. Desktop GIS examines the challenges associated with …

Description This book covers fundamental aspects of spatial data modelling specifically on the aspect of three-dimensional (3D) modelling and structuring. Realisation of "true" 3D GIS spatial system needs a lot of efforts, and the process is taking place in various research centres and universities in some …

Description In an age of unprecedented proliferation of data from disparate sources the urgency is to create efficient methodologies that can optimise data combinations and at the same time solve increasingly complex application problems. Integration of GIS and Remote Sensing explores the tremendous potential that lies …

Description This undergraduate and postgraduate text will familiarise readers with interval arithmetic and related tools to gain reliable and validated results and logically correct decisions for a variety of geometric computations, and the means for alleviating the effects of the errors. It also considers computations …

Description If you think you want to dabble in open source geospatial Web Services, this is a good book to learn about the fundamentals. I would have liked to see more coverage of OGC standards. Book Info Author(s): Tyler Mitchell Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Year: 2005 ISBN: 9780596008659,0596008651

Description A superficial book that mentions everything from fuzzy logic to Ito's lemma and knows what a Main Street economic consultant would. It fails completely as far as Matlab and Simulink are concerned: the code is sketchy, and model diagrams sufficiently incomplete and uncommented to be useless. The positive …

Description Easy to read. Comprehensive. Easily one of the best IT books that I own. I am in Australia, but the US emphasis did not detract from my learning experience. Book Info Author(s): Scott Davis Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf, Year: 2007 ISBN: 0974514098,9780974514093

Description There is not much choice. If you want to use free GIS software and you are starting out, you'll pretty much need to buy this book to get an overview of the possibilities. Not that it's perfect, the book is necessarily a little outdated now, since the versions of such software such as Quantum GIS are no …

Description Designed for both experienced marine cartographers and less technically oriented conservationists, this wide-ranging collection of case studies shows how geographic information system (GIS) software is helping scientists study the world's oceans and seas, map various areas of interest, and help preserve …

Description This book provides an excellent introduction and overview of Historical GIS. It is very well laid out, providing an overall introduction to the capabilities of GIS in its traditional context before moving on to case studies of how historical users have utilized Historical GIS.I appreciate how the book …