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6999
Publisher: New Age Publications (Academic)
Number Of Pages: 352
GIS Basics Book Description
In today`s world - the flow of information especially digital information has become the critical ingredient for success in any activity. That is why, the period we live in is often referred to as an information age. It is a simple fact that everything human beings do, do takes place at a certain location on the earth - it has a geographic component, although we tend not to think about it much. The digital information revolution of the late twentieth century has allowed this geographic information to be more easily accessed, analyzed and used than ever before. This led to the development of GIS as a discipline and emergence of GIS as a core of digital technology.
Traditionally, the discipline of Geography dealt with spatial description and analysis. Now in the era of multi-disciplinary approach, students, researchers, professionals from different disciplines find their way into the emerging discipline of GIS making it popular. The rapid expansion and popularization of GIS means that now GIS is not just for the specialists, but for everyone, but these GIS users have different requirements. There are numerous amounts of GIS learning material available in the form of textbooks as well as posted on various websites. These literatures in general tend to be rather advanced and designed for specialists while requirements of GIS beginners are somewhat ignored. The present book is an attempt to provide basic fundamentals of GIS for beginners.
The book is spread over twelve chapters providing indepth explanations of key concepts, issues and topics which are easy to follow and understand. It also contains wide range of highly effective and explanatory diagrams, tables, boxes and glossary for additional informations on specific topics.
About the Author(s):
Dr. Shahab Fazal
is currently Reader in the Department of Geography at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He obtained his graduation and post graduation from Rajasthan University in 1st Division. Later he joined AMU and completed his Ph.D. His research interests are in Land use - Land transformation issues in urban fringe and GIS. He has published five books and thirty two research articles in various national and international journals such as - Land Use Policy, Environment and Urbanization, Landscape and Urban Planning, Habitat International, Asian Profile, Annals of the Indian Geographers, The Geographer, etc.
He was also recipient of prestigious doctoral and post doctoral fellowships such as - CSIR Fellowship, Canadian Government - Shastri Faculty Research Fellowship, British Government - Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology Young Scientist Project, etc. He was also member of Indo German Joint Research Team working for DST - DAAD Research Project. Currently he is working on two major research projects sponsored by ICSSR and UGC.
He was visiting scientist at Leipzig University, Germany, Montreal University, Canada, and Kingston University, Great Britain. He has also participated in many national and international conferences and delivered several lectures.
Contents:
Geographical Information Systems - Representing Geography
History and Development of GIS
GISs Roots in Cartography
Spatial Data Structure and Models
The Nature and Source of Geographic Data
GIS and the Real World Model
Basic Data Models in GIS
Advanced Data Models
Geographic Query and Analysis
Selection of a GIS
The future of GIS
GIS Project Design and Management.
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Publisher: New Age Publications (Academic)
Number Of Pages: 352
GIS Basics Book Description
In today`s world - the flow of information especially digital information has become the critical ingredient for success in any activity. That is why, the period we live in is often referred to as an information age. It is a simple fact that everything human beings do, do takes place at a certain location on the earth - it has a geographic component, although we tend not to think about it much. The digital information revolution of the late twentieth century has allowed this geographic information to be more easily accessed, analyzed and used than ever before. This led to the development of GIS as a discipline and emergence of GIS as a core of digital technology.
Traditionally, the discipline of Geography dealt with spatial description and analysis. Now in the era of multi-disciplinary approach, students, researchers, professionals from different disciplines find their way into the emerging discipline of GIS making it popular. The rapid expansion and popularization of GIS means that now GIS is not just for the specialists, but for everyone, but these GIS users have different requirements. There are numerous amounts of GIS learning material available in the form of textbooks as well as posted on various websites. These literatures in general tend to be rather advanced and designed for specialists while requirements of GIS beginners are somewhat ignored. The present book is an attempt to provide basic fundamentals of GIS for beginners.
The book is spread over twelve chapters providing indepth explanations of key concepts, issues and topics which are easy to follow and understand. It also contains wide range of highly effective and explanatory diagrams, tables, boxes and glossary for additional informations on specific topics.
About the Author(s):
Dr. Shahab Fazal
is currently Reader in the Department of Geography at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He obtained his graduation and post graduation from Rajasthan University in 1st Division. Later he joined AMU and completed his Ph.D. His research interests are in Land use - Land transformation issues in urban fringe and GIS. He has published five books and thirty two research articles in various national and international journals such as - Land Use Policy, Environment and Urbanization, Landscape and Urban Planning, Habitat International, Asian Profile, Annals of the Indian Geographers, The Geographer, etc.
He was also recipient of prestigious doctoral and post doctoral fellowships such as - CSIR Fellowship, Canadian Government - Shastri Faculty Research Fellowship, British Government - Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology Young Scientist Project, etc. He was also member of Indo German Joint Research Team working for DST - DAAD Research Project. Currently he is working on two major research projects sponsored by ICSSR and UGC.
He was visiting scientist at Leipzig University, Germany, Montreal University, Canada, and Kingston University, Great Britain. He has also participated in many national and international conferences and delivered several lectures.
Contents:
Geographical Information Systems - Representing Geography
History and Development of GIS
GISs Roots in Cartography
Spatial Data Structure and Models
The Nature and Source of Geographic Data
GIS and the Real World Model
Basic Data Models in GIS
Advanced Data Models
Geographic Query and Analysis
Selection of a GIS
The future of GIS
GIS Project Design and Management.
Download link: 6998
or
7004
7005
7006