Introduction to Geographic Information Systems - (Third Edition) (Includes CD-ROM)

Author: (USA) Zhang Kangcong
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: The book consists of 19 chapters, comprehensively covering the themes and new developments of GIS. It also emphasizes the concepts and practices of GIS as a distinctive feature. The textbook adopts a structure of main text, additional annotation bars, key concepts and terms, review questions, and references, which helps readers better understand GIS topics and provides options for further reading. The textbook includes new and extended themes such as object-oriented data models, topological rules, spatial statistics, geographic coding, dynamic segmentation, visibility analysis, watershed analysis, and path analysis. Each chapter comes with a set of problem-solving exercises. Readers can use the guidelines in the book, the datasets on the accompanying CD-ROM, and ArcGIS 9.0 software to solve problems. Additionally, each chapter includes a challenging task designed to further strengthen readers' problem-solving skills. Besides providing exercise datasets, the CD-ROM also includes a list of URLs related to the ready-made GIS data and information referenced in the book.