Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science
- Karen Kemp - University of Southern California, USA
The Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science provides a condensed but rich resource about themes broadly across the field. It also provides details about the key foundations of GIS, no matter what their disciplinary origins, and is, therefore, an important resource for both academic and corporate libraries.
Key Themes:
- Conceptual Foundations
- Cartography and visualisation
- Design aspects
- Data modeling
- Data manipulation
- Geocomputation
- Geospatial data
- Societorial Issues
- Spatial analysis
- Organizational and institutional aspects
"Most of the topics in this encyclopedia will remain important for years to come. Many of the topics here are germane to geography such as the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem, spatial autocorrelation, mental maps, and scale. For these reasons as well as for its sheer readability and usefulness, I believe that this book will serve as a practical reference for geography and GIS educators, practitioners, and university students long into the future. It's not a reference for taking up space on the shelf, but one for the top of the desk, to be referred to often."
—ESRI