Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences
Subtitle: Investigating Space and Place
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: August 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780761928720
Subjects: Social research & statistics; Sociology; Research; Social Science; Spatial analysis (Statistics); Geographic information systems; Social Science / Research; Methodology; Social sciences
First sentence: In its simplest form, a geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to store, manipulate, analyze, and output map-based, or spatial, information.