GIS for biologists
Subtitle: a practical introduction for undergraduates
By: Colin D. MacLeod
Series: PSLS; PSLS series
Publisher: Pictish Beast Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Glasgow, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781909832176
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Biology; Geographic information systems
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The basics of GIS; title: Common concepts and terms in GIS; title: The importance of projections, coordinate systems and datums in GIS; title: Types of GIS data layers; title: Starting a GIS project; title: Translating biological tasks into the language of GIS; title: GIS and statistical analysis; title: Using a GPS to gather data for a GIS project; title: An introduction to GIS software; title: How to use the GIS software interfaces; title: Exercise one: How to make your first map; title: Exercise two: How to create your own feature data layers; title: Exercise three: How to work with raster data; title: Exercise four: How to join data from different layers together; title: Exercise five: Answering biological research questions with GIS Part one: Identifying spatial patterns in an emerging infectious disease; title: Exercise six: Answering biological research questions with GIS Part two: Identifying patterns in species diversity.