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GIS: A Computing Perspective

GIS: A Computing Perspective
By Michael Worboys, Matt Duckham

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GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition, provides a full, up-to-date overview of the subjects referred to as GIS, both Geographic Information Systems and the study of these systems: Geographic Information Science. Analyzing the subject from a computing perspective, the second edition explores conceptual and formal models needed to understand spatial information, and examines the representations and data structures needed to support adequate system performance. This volume also covers the special-purpose interfaces and architectures required to interact with and share spatial information and explains the importance of uncertainty and time in spatial information.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #69422 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-05-11
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 448 pages

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GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition, provides a full, up-to-date overview of the state-of-the-art in GIS, both Geographic Information Systems and the study of these systems-Geographic Information Science. Analyzing the subject from a computing perspective, the second edition explores conceptual and formal models needed to understand spatial information, and examines the representations and data structures needed to support adequate system performance. This volume also covers the special-purpose interfaces and architectures required to interact with and share spatial information, and explains the importance of uncertainty and time.

The second edition contains substantial new information, and has been completely reformatted to improve accessibility. Changes include:

  • The material on GIS architectures and interfaces and spatiotemporal information systems is almost entirely new. There is also a new chapter on spatial uncertainty
  • Complete revisions of the bibliography, index, and supporting diagrams
  • Supplemental material is offset at the top of the page, as are references and links for further study
  • Definitions of new terms are in the margins of pages where they appear, with corresponding entries in the index

    • Customer Reviews

    Awesome5
    Very technical and theoretical. The chapter on databases is excellent. Contains a lot of maths. It is invaluable if you are doing an MSc or higher in GIS. I didn't understand averything first read, but it eventually starts to make sense. This is not a criticism of the book, but of myself coming from a non-math background. Buy it!