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Introduction to Geographic Information Systems with Data Set CD-ROM

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, 6e is designed to provide students in a first or second GIS course with a solid foundation in both GIS concepts and the use of GIS. Introduction...More

Teaching Science with Geospatial Technology: Designing Effective Professional Development for Secondary Teachers

The emerging field of using geospatial technology to teach science and environmental education presents an excellent opportunity to discover the ways in which educators use research-grounded...More

Exploring the Urban Community: A GIS Approach

Authored by accomplished urban geographers and GIS experts, Exploring the Urban Community: A GIS Approach leverages the modern geographer’s toolset, employing the latest GIS methodology to the...More

The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship

Geographic information systems have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to...More

Research Trends in Geographic Information Science

In June/July 2008 the Institute for Geoinformation and Cartography at the Vienna University of Technology organized a scientific colloquium in this city, where 15 well-known scientists presented...More

Education and Technology for a Better World: 9th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers in Education

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on computers in Education, WCCE 2009, held in Bento GonÃ§alves, Brazil, in July 2009. The 48 revised full...More

Fundamentals of Computational Geoscience: Numerical Methods and Algorithms

This monograph aims to provide state-of-the-art numerical methods, procedures and algorithms in the field of computational geoscience, based on the authors' own work during the last decade....More

Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS: A Workbook Approach to Learning GIS, Second Edition

Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS, Second Edition serves as both an easy-to-understand introduction to GIS and a hands-on manual for the ArcGIS 9.3 software. This...More

GIS Investigations: Earth Science

Michelle Hall and The SAGUARO Project team have developed a series of four GIS INVESTIGATIONS over the course of the last few years. These materials have been extensively class-tested at both...More

Analyzing Our World Using GIS: Our World GIS Education, Level 3

The third volume in the Our World GIS Education series promotes inquiry-based learning in world geography and other disciplines through the use of geographic information systems (GIS), a...More