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Description Economists, geographers and surveyors are beginning to recognise the powerful tool which a Geographical Information System (GIS) offers in effective property management. It provides a means of managing land and property information digitally and in a geographical context, and allows for rapid access to …
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Description The increased efficiency and profitability that the proper application of technology can provide has made precision agriculture the hottest developing area within traditional agriculture. The first single-source volume to cover GIS applications in agronomy, GIS Applications in Agriculture examines ways that …
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Description There are many books on the subject of using GIS technologies for watershed management. This book attempts to take a little from each, but it does so poorly. It adds nothing to the knowledge of this subject since it just borrows from all the others. It would have been better if the author asked experts in …
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Description This is an excellent hardcopy reference to MapServer, As others have noted, it is five years out of date, which can be confusing. For instance, a map document now requires an explicit MAP block containing the entire data and security fixes have broken some of the reference paths. Setting up the server is …
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Description The role of an editor in an anthology such as this one is to ensure that chapters follow each other in a logical sequence, don't overlap and, in the end, provide information much like a text book would. This book does none of that. It reads more like a scientific journal composed of random papers. The only …
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Description The difficulties inherent in assessing the accuracy of large-area spatial data sets, their subsequent analysis by GIS, and their importance to landscape characterization make the development of methods for robust accuracy assessment a critical challenge. In December 2002, the U.S. EPA sponsored a symposium …
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Description This volume collects the papers presented at the European Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '93) held on the island of Elba, Italy, inSeptember 1993. Spatial information theory includes disciplinary topics and interdisciplinary issues dealing with the conceptualization and formalization of …
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Description This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT'95, held near Vienna, Austria, in September 1995.Spatial Information Theory brings together three fields of research of paramount importance for geographic information systems technology, …
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Description This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT'97, held in Laurel Highlands, Pennsylvania, USA, in October 1997. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 66 submissions. Also included are seven …
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Description Statistical implicative analysis is a data analysis method created by Régis Gras almost thirty years ago which has a significant impact on a variety of areas ranging from pedagogical and psychological research to data mining. Statistical implicative analysis (SIA) provides a framework for evaluating the …
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