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Encyclopedia of GIS "Geographical Information Sciences"

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-0-387-35973-1

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provides up-to-date information on emerging topics such as spatial big data, smart-phone GIS, urban computing and mobile recommender systems. It also expands the first edition’s rich set of GIS-related commercial and societal applications such as geo-targeting, geo-fencing and understanding climate changes, while enabling more comprehensive coverage of classical GIS topics such as map projections, global positioning systems and spatial cognition. The entries explain the key software, data sets and processes used by geographers and computational scientists. Additionally, the reference emphasizes the role of GIS in business and mobile intelligence. By offering more diversified GIS-related topics from theory and research than most of the other available literature, the authors equip newcomers to the field with principles as well as applications.


Subject: Computer Science, Computer Science, Reference Module Computer Science and Engineering, IR (information retrieval), Milieukunde, Computer, Automation