Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems (Apic Studies in Data Processing)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: March 19, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9780124383807
Subjects: Applications of Computing; Computer graphics software; Databases & data structures; Geography; Information Storage & Retrieval; Mathematical Geography; Computers; Computers - Certification; Computer Books: General; Certification Guides - General; Earth Sciences - General; Computers / Technical Skills; Computers-Information Storage & Retrieval; Information storage and retrieval systems; Science / Earth Sciences; Science-Earth Sciences - General; Computer Graphics - General
First sentence: Today in Redlands, California, a group of people is building a digital data equivalent of the world land map represented on almost three hundred sheets of aeronautical charts at a scale of approximately one-to-one million, showing cultural and physical features of inhabited continents.