Fundamentals of Geographical Information Systems

Michael N. DeMers

  • 出版商: Wiley
  • 出版日期: 2008-02-01
  • 售價: $1,083
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 464
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0470129069
  • ISBN-13: 9780470129067
  • 相關分類: 地理資訊系統 Gis
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商品描述

Locate your place in the exciting field of GIS

In existence since 1962, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are really coming into their own today. And not just in your car's GPS system or your cell phone's tracking capabilities. GIS is finding applications throughout science, government, business, and industry, from regional and community planning, architecture, and transportation to public health, crime mapping, and national defense.

Michael DeMers's Fundamentals of Geographic Information, Fourth Edition brings an already essential text up to date, capturing the significant developments in the field and responding to the needs of a diverse set of readers, from geographers to students in a host of other fields.

If you are a non-geographer or new to GIS, get a quick introduction to the "lay of the land" of GIS through the new "Spatial Learner's Permit" section. Then join in the excitement of discovery with GIS databases as you absorb the such concepts and skills as digital geographic data and maps, GIS data models, spatial analysis, measurement and classification, cartographic modeling, and GIS design.

Responding to both the needs and technical skills of today's students, this Fourth Edition:
* Makes concepts accessible to students from a wide range of backgrounds
* Offers more practical and relevant coverage of GIS design and implementation
* Reflects the latest changes in GIS applications
* Examines in greater depth the underlying computer science behind GIS
* Uncovers the most recent developments on GIS research
* Expands coverage of the increasingly robust literature on cartographic visualization
* Includes Web-based labs and links to current and updated dataset resources

Taking an open-ended, hands-on approach that gets you to ask your own questions about the underlying concepts, the Fourth Edition helps you not only master the basics but acquire the active problem-solving skills that are a key component of success in the GIS industry.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

在令人興奮的地理資訊系統(GIS)領域中找到你的位置

地理資訊系統(GIS)自1962年以來一直存在,如今正迎來自己的時代。它不僅僅存在於你的汽車GPS系統或手機的追蹤功能中。GIS在科學、政府、商業和工業各個領域都有應用,從區域和社區規劃、建築和交通到公共衛生、犯罪地圖和國家防衛。

迈克尔·德梅尔(Michael DeMers)的《地理信息基础》第四版將一本已經成為必讀書籍的教材更新至最新,捕捉到該領域的重大發展,並滿足了各種讀者的需求,從地理學家到其他領域的學生。

如果你不是地理學家或對GIS不熟悉,可以通過新的“空間學習許可證”部分快速了解GIS的基礎知識。然後,通過GIS數據庫的發現之旅,掌握數字地理數據和地圖、GIS數據模型、空間分析、測量和分類、制圖建模以及GIS設計等概念和技能。

為了滿足當今學生的需求和技術技能,第四版具有以下特點:
* 使概念對來自不同背景的學生易於理解
* 提供更實用和相關的GIS設計和實施內容
* 反映GIS應用的最新變化
* 更深入地探討GIS背後的計算機科學
* 揭示GIS研究的最新發展
* 擴大對制圖可視化日益豐富的文獻的涵蓋範圍
* 包括基於網絡的實驗室和鏈接到當前和更新的數據集資源

第四版採用了開放式、實踐性的方法,讓你提出自己對基本概念的問題,幫助你不僅掌握基礎知識,還獲得在GIS行業中成功所需的積極解決問題的能力。