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Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images: An Introduction

This fourth and full color edition updates and expands a widely used textbook aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in remote sensing and GIS in Geography,...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

Mastering ArcGIS

Mastering ArcGIS is an introductory GIS text that is designed to offer everything you need to master the basic elements of GIS. The author's step-by-step approach helps students negotiate the...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

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop introduces principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ESRI's leading technology. Key concepts are combined with detailed illustrations and step-by-step...More

Local Positioning Systems-LBS Applications and Services

Indoor environments present opportunities for a rich set of location-aware applications such as navigation tools for humans and robots, interactive virtual games, resource discovery, asset...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

Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach (third edition)

With this third edition of Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach, we enter the new era of GRASS6, the first release that includes substantial new code developed by the International GRASS...More

Programming ArcObjects with VBA: A Task-Oriented Approach, Second Edition

If you're ready to take your knowledge of ArcGIS to the next level, then you need to learn how to work with ArcObjects. But with thousands of objects, properties, and methods, how can you ever...More

Learning and Using Geographic Information Systems: ArcGIS Edition

Learning and Using Geographic Information Systems: ArcGIS 9.x Edition has been written by two leading GIS researchers and educators from Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz School. Due to the...More