Geographic Information Systems
Subtitle: Socioeconomic Applications
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780203432877
Subjects: Geographic information systems
Description: Second edition of successful text that takes into account recent advances in GIS development and new socioeconomic datasets including new census data. Written as an overview to GIS, it is an easy to use, non-technical introduction to the subject.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PLATES; FIGURES; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF GIS; 3 GIS APPLICATIONS; 4 THEORIES OF GIS; 5 DATA COLLECTION AND INPUT; 6 DATA STORAGE; 7 DATA MANIPULATION; 8 DATA OUTPUT AND DISPLAY; 9 TOWARDS A SOCIOECONOMIC GIS; 10 CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.