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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

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems with Data Files CD-ROM, 5th Edition

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, 5e 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

Integrating Geographic Information Systems into Library Services: A Guide for Academic Libraries

With the onslaught of emergent technology in academia, libraries are privy to many innovative techniques to recognize and classify geospatial data above and beyond the traditional map...More

Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship

Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses GIS to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell present the first study comprehensively to define this emerging field,...More

Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship

In the last decade, historical GIS has emerged as a promising new methodology for studying the past. Historical GIS is the use of geographic information systems software and allied geospatial...More

Digital Geography: Geospatial Technologies in the Social Studies Classroom

A volume in International Social Studies Forum: The Series Series Editors Richard Diem, University of Texas at San Antonio and Jeff Passe, University of North Carolina, Charlotte The purpose of...More

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Towards a Global Licensing Framework for Geospatial Data

Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.