Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS / Edition 1

by Jochen Albrecht

Overview

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412910163
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/18/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jochen Albrecht is Associate Professor, Deputy Department Chair, and GIS Certificate Adviser in the Department of Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York

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

Editorial Reviews

"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

Choice Magazine

"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

CHOICE - E.J. Delaney