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This book is designed to serve as an introduction to the fascinating world of maps. It explains how to use maps to obtain information about a wide variety of topics. Throughout the book, maps are viewed in a broad framework. Thus, the discussion includes mental maps, aerial photographs, remotely sensed images, computer-assisted cartography, and geographical information systems, in addition to traditional printed maps. The writing style is neither formalistic nor casual, with an emphasis on clarity of explanation. The discussions assume that the reader has no specific prior knowledge of the topic, so that even novice map users can understand and use the information and techniques presented.
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Excellent course textbook.......2003-03-24
I received a copy of this book from the publisher when I was teaching a university course on cartography. The textbook for the semester had already been selected, so I used this book originally as a second resource while preparing lectures. By the end of the semester, I found myself using this book as the primary source for topics and explanations and suggested it be used in future semesters.
This book explains concepts such as projections and coordinate systems in ways that are easy to understand, particularly for new students. The explanations are thorough without bogging down in details. The figures are large, many take up a full page. They are helpful, relevant, and excellently reproduced. The chapters on terrain representation, contours, and topographic features are exceptionally good (there are almost 40 examples of terrain representation) The remote sensing and GIS chapters are brief and introductory, but those are topics best left for other books.
I was a little skeptical when I first saw this book, since it appeared to be a somewhat thin, and we were using Robinson's book, which is basically a standard. But, I would recommend this to any map student, teacher, or user. It packs a lot of information in its pages. I still use it as a reference (...).
Great Help.......2001-03-22
If I were stuck on a deserted Island like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, and I could only have one book, it would be this one. It would help me to get off the island and determine my global positioning! Lots of help.
A Cartographer's View of the World.......2000-10-02
When you've been working in a field for 30 years it's really difficult to drag yourself backwards and review data you already know, so when I signed up for a GPS (Global Positioning Sattelite) software course I looked at "Map Use & Analysis" by John Campbell as something I could just skip over, but since it was required reading I finally got it out. I was really pleased with the depth of material and the extremely clear explanations of all those mystifying cartography words. Anyone who has no idea about mapping or is a begining student will be able to use this book. The format is excellent with terms higligted and the index and dictionary are well coordinated. I feel that this book is such an excellent reference that I am buying a copy for myself. The only negative thing I have to say is that the illustrations, which are plentiful seem to wander several pages ahead of text, but they are carefully numbered and correspond exactly to the descriptions. Well done! Les L. Johnson
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Clear, up-to-date coverage of methods for analyzing geographical information in a GIS context
Geographic Information Analysis presents clear and up-to-date coverage of the foundations of spatial analysis in a geographic information systems environment. Focusing on the universal aspects of spatial data and their analysis, this book covers the scientific assumptions and limitations of methods available in many geographic information systems.
Throughout, the fundamental idea of a map as a realization of a spatial stochastic process is central to the discussion. Key spatial concepts are covered, including point pattern, line objects and networks, area objects, and continuous fields. Analytical techniques for each of these are addressed, as are methods for combining maps, exploring multivariate data, and performing computationally intensive analysis. Appendixes provide primers on basic statistics and linear algebra using matrices.
Complete with chapter objectives, summaries, "thought exercises," a wealth of explanatory diagrams, and an annotated bibliography, Geographic Information Analysis is a practical book for students, as well as a valuable resource for researchers and professionals in the industry.
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Crime analysis is an emerging profession in policing and a growing topic of interest in the criminal justice field.
Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping, one of the first texts to introduce crime analysis and crime mapping to an undergraduate audience, is enriched by author Rachel Boba’s unique perspective as a current professor and former crime analyst. The book offers a thorough introduction to the field as well as guidelines for its practice, making it a useful asset for current and future crime analysts and police practitioners as well as for students.
Key Features
- Provides an overview of the field as well as guidelines for its practice that will be valuable to professionals and students alike
- Features the most comprehensive introductory overview of crime analysis and mapping available
- Presents key concepts, definitions, and relevant criminological theory as well as methods and techniques of tactical, strategic, and administrative crime analysis
- Includes end-of-chapter exercises and instructor materials, as well as a CD with crime analysis software, data and exercises, to explicate key concepts
- References useful Internet sites that complement the topics discussed in the text
Intended Audience
Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping is designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in Criminology, Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, Criminal Investigation, GIS, Geography, and Sociology. This book will also be of interest to current and future crime analysts and other police practitioners. In addition, it is valuable for practitioner training in crime analysis and crime mapping.
Professors: For a sample syllabus, please go to 'sample chapters and materials' at left. For a chapter-by-chapter exam guide, please contact Customer Care at 1.800.818.7243 (6am - 5pm PT). Subject to verification of textbook adoption.
We'd like to thank our reviewers for this text, all of whom contributed to the high quality of this book. They are:
Hank Brightman, Saint Peter's College
Sutham Cheurprakobkit, Kennesaw State University
Bill Van Cleve, California State University, Fullerton
Donald Dixon, CSU Sacramento
Gene Evans, Camden County College
Bob Feliciano, Rio Hondo Community College
Laurie Garo, University of North Carolina
James W. Golden, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
David R. Karp, Skidmore College
Leslie Kennedy, Rutgers University
Christopher Maxwell, Michigan State University
Jon'a F. Meyer, Rutgers University
Kurt Nelson, Clackamas Community College
April Pattavina, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Many thanks for all of your help making this project a reality!
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Excellent.......2007-08-27
Very easy to read and informative; it's a good introduction to Crime Analysis. As an intern, I already have some knowledge of the subject and this is helping to reinforce it.
Comprehensive goal oriented book !.......2005-10-17
I don't have time for a lot of theory. I need instructional material that must be on target. This well structured book brought me a much needed guideline of both crime analysis and crime mapping. My new system, GREAT.i, will be greatly aided by this comprehensive work.
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- A great reference and very well illustrated
- Excellent reference
- Excellent for beginners of GIS.
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From selecting sites for new hospitals, schools, and factories, to managing forests and rivers, to creating and maintaining highways and bridges, public and private organizations are often called on to make decisions on geographic questions that involve a multitude of alternatives and often conflicting evaluation criteria. This book presents a formal mechanism for dealing with these situations, capturing the information in a Geographic Information System and processing it to derive optimal recommendations for confronting these complex questions.
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A great reference and very well illustrated.......2004-01-26
This book is a must for everyone wanting to learn more about decision making and wanting to understand the concepts behind it. The examples draw heavily on raster GIS, still the concepts behind various techniques and approaches are explained to the point. This books covers all and more of what you will ever need to know. The perfect and crisp clear step by step illustrations make this book a great textbook for academic teaching as well. My students were actually in awe that seemingly difficult concepts could be boiled down to a few simple pictures.
Excellent reference.......2002-10-22
This book is very well written and contains tons of useful information. I wouldn't try to do a GIS decision model without it. It describes common modeling mistakes to avoid and provides plenty of examples. I haven't found any other texts that are this in-depth, describing every step of the modeling process in detail.
Excellent for beginners of GIS........1999-10-17
Very good introduction about the combination of GIS technologies and multi-criteria analysis. The combination of both provide a good tool for planning and decision making
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How to conduct accurate analysis using powerful GIS software tools.
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analyzing spatial patterns concepts.......2006-05-22
This book presents concepts of analyzing spatial patterns include mapping where things are, mapping the most and least, mapping density, finding what's inside, finding what's nearby, and mapping change. Some of the best sections were tables comparing methods, for example: comparing standard classification schemes, contrasting mapping density versus building a density surface, methods to determine if features are inside another and straight-line distance versus network versus surface distance methods of comparing distance. There was no discussion of systematically analyzing variability in geospatial data, which would be important in understanding statistical differences. The section on mapping change surprisingly stayed away from discussions of level of trend.
Although good on concepts, this does not mention the specific tool in ArcGis or the various extensions. I would have appreciated some cross-reference to specific ArcGIS tutorial or help on methods to do these.
Great place to begin.......2006-03-19
Some ESRI books are only extended marketing brochures. This is not. If you need a book that will help you understand GIS analysis, this is a great place. Mastering the techniques described in this book will cover 75% of the demands in the market. The book is referenced and so if you need more you can seek out the sources used to write the book.
This book is for GIS analysts, not for folks interested in building databases. This is an essential reference for GIS analysts. that is heavily booked marked and sits on the self near my desk so I can refer to it. It is useful for people starting out and experienced GIS users.
It is weak on network analysis and remote sensing. So look elsewhere for that.
A Great Starting Point.......2002-08-30
You have to take this book for what it is. An extremely basic, starting point for any would-be GIS Analyst. The book contains wonderful examples of how one may use GIS to analyze "real world problems" using both raster and vector models. This book in essence shows people how GIS can be used to analyze problems, without specifically showing them how to analyze problems. I would recommend this book for people who are new to GIS analysis and IT managers who's departments use GIS. While this book will not demonstrate how GIS problems are solved, it illustrates what kinds of problems can be solved using a GIS, any GIS. This book, although it is published by a software company, is not a software manual by any stretch of the imagination (and it was not intended to be one). The examples can be replicated on any commercially available GIS package.
Note: Do not buy this book if you are an advanced GIS user, you probably already know most of what is contained in the book.
Good 2nd Book for GIS beginners.......2000-04-20
After reading "GIS for Everyone", which shows you how to do some basic things with GIS, this book shows you what to do. There's an ample supply of examples in this book, although somewhat repetative. The extensive use of color was surprising given the relatively low cost of this book compared to similar titles. Some of the GIS images are quite small and a small reading magnifier will help seeing the differences that, for example, changes in cell size can make in GIS images.
This book helps you make the transition from making maps to doing GIS analysis.
call it GIS Analysis for dummies.......1999-12-07
while it doesn't get into specifics about actually using any GIS software, this book explains in layman's terms the basics of spatial relationships. if you're ready to start getting beyond just making maps with GIS, this is an excellent place to start.
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A guide for geographic analysts, modelers, software engineers, and GIS professionals, this book discusses agent-based modeling, dynamic feedback and simulation modeling, as well as links between models and GIS software. This collection also presents a state-of-the-art understanding of applications based on environmental, atmospheric, hydrological, urban, social, health, and economic models.
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A collection of case studies..........2007-09-29
...rather than a "how to" or tutorial ESRI book, but nonetheless interesting for learning different approaches to solving spatial problems. The math content is minimal, but the target audience is probably the researcher rather than the GIS practitioner. The individual chapters are well-written, but since they span such a broad range of topics (see the TOC below) few people are likely to read this book cover-to-cover. I was content to have been able to borrow it from the library.
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GIS and Modeling Overview
Michael F. Goodchild
Towards a GIS Platform for Spatial Analysis and Modeling
David J. Maguire
Approaches to Modeling in GIS: Spatial Representation and Temporal Dynamics
Michael Batty
Tools and Techniques: Introduction by David J. Maguire
Assessing the Uncertainty Resulting from Geoprocessing Operations
Konstantin Krivoruchko and Carol A. Gotway Crawford
Spatial Statistical Modeling in a GIS Environment
Luc Anselin
Linking General-Purpose Dynamic Simulation Models with GIS
Ian Miller, Stefan Knopf, and Rick Kossik
Dynamic, Geospatial Landscape Modeling and Simulation
Thomas Maxwell and Alexey Voinov
Socioeconomic applications: Introduction by Michael Batty
Urban Growth Using Cellular Automata Models
Michael Batty and Yichun Xie
A Data Model to Represent Plans and Regulations in Urban Simulation Models
Lewis D. Hopkins, Nikhil Kaza, and Varkki G. Pallathucheril
Urban Land-Use Transportation Models
Michael Wegener
Retail and Service Location Planning
Mark Birkin
Simulating Spatially Explicit Networks for Dispersion of Infectious Diseases
Ling Bian and David Liebner
The Use of GIS in Transport Modeling
Thomas Israelsen and Rasmus Dyhr Frederiksen
The Integration of Case-Based Reasoning and GIS in a Planning Support System
Anthony G. O. Yeh
Environmental Applications: Introduction by Michael F. Goodchild
Hydrologic Modeling
David R. Maidment, Oscar Robayo, and Venkatesh Merwade
Environmental Modeling with PCRaster
Peter A. Burrough, Derek Karssenberg, and Willem van Deursen
Transition Potential Modeling for Land Cover Change
J. Ronald Eastman, Megan E. Van Fossen, and Luis A. Solrzano
Modeling the Interaction Between Humans and Animals in multiple-use Forests: A Case Study of Panthera Tigris
Sean Ahearn and J. L. David Smith
Integration of Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Models of Land Use: Prospects and Challenges
Dawn C. Parker
Generating Prescribed Patterns in Landscape Models
Jiunn-Der Duh and Daniel G. Brown
GIS, Spatial Analysis, and Modeling: Current Status and Future Prospects
David J. Maguire, Michael Batty, and Michael F. Goodchild
GOT PhD ?.......2006-01-18
I'm a GIS manager with 23 years of real-world experience, I am the program director for the GIS degree program at Tarrant County College where I also teach advanced GIS classes ... This book was way over my head. It's first 5 pages are a matrix of the authors and their academic qualifications - there are 36 of them. That should have been a warning of the complexity of the speach.
Each chapter is written by a different author, and it's almost as if they try to speak in the most complex terms, and to be more complex than the last chapter. Written by pure acedemics FOR pure academics.
Make no mistake, the subject matter is not that complex - just the language. I would reccomend the "ESRI Guide to Spatial Analysis Volume 2" for a better primer on spatial analysis and how to make it work for you.
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Backed by the collective knowledge and experience of the world's leading Geographic Information Systems (GIS) company, the concepts and methods presented in this volume will allow users to unleash the full analytic power of their GIS. The most commonly used spatial statistical tools are described in detail along with their applications in a range of disciplines, from crime analysis to habitat conservation. GIS users will learn how features are distributed, how to analyze the pattern created by the features, and how to determine the relationships between them. Four general statistical concepts are discussed, including testing statistical significance, defining spatial neighborhoods and weights, and using statistics with spatial data. Advice on determining which statistical tool to use in a given situation is also provided.
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The explosive development of interactive multimedia products on CD-ROM and the Internet, via the WWW, has generated immense interest in this field. The approach to producing interactive multimedia mapping products is quite unique and there has been an upsurge of interest in developing methodologies that best exploit both the technology and communication effectiveness of multimedia mapping. This book is addressed to professional cartographers interested in moving into multimedia mapping, for cartographers already involved in this field who wish to discover the approaches that other practitioners in multimedia cartography have already taken and for students and academics in the mapping sciences and related geographic fields wishing to update their knowledge of cartographic design and production.
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Potential cartography changes from multimedia.......2000-06-20
I think the book brings a very helpful review of the cartography state of art facing new tools to represent reality. It is balanced between theory and practical examples. Finally, it shows how multimedia will impact in the way we think and construct maps.
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"The Steinbergs have produced a very relevant book for the times. . . . While many books have emerged on the details of GIS, few resources exist to help teach the merger of GIS with more standard research methods. The Steinbergs accomplish this goal in a way that is readily accessible even to undergraduates."
—Theodore Wagenaar,
Miami University
"The Steinbergs take the reader through all of the essential foundations of GIS… using examples drawn from the social sciences throughout. This book will be essential reading for any social scientist looking for a straightforward introduction to GIS."
—Mike Goodchild,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place is the first book to take a cutting-edge approach to integrating spatial concepts into the social sciences. In this text, authors Steven J. Steinberg and Sheila L. Steinberg simplify GIS (Geographic Information Systems) for practitioners and students in the social sciences through the use of examples and actual program exercises so that they can become comfortable incorporating this research tool into their repertoire and scope of interest. The authors provide learning objectives for each chapter, chapter summaries, links to relevant Web sites, as well as suggestions for student research projects.
Key Features:
- Presents step-by-step guidance for integrating GIS with both quantitative and qualitative research
- Provides an introduction to the use of GIS technology written at an accessible level for individuals without GIS experience while providing depth and guidance appropriate to experienced GIS users
- Offers an associated interactive Web site—http://www.socialsciencegis.org—to provide a forum for sharing experience and ideas, input to the authors, and a variety of other examples, data, and information related to the topics covered in the text
Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences offers a nuts-and-bolts introduction to GIS for undergraduate and graduate students taking methods courses across the social sciences. It is an excellent textbook for courses dedicated to GIS research and its applications in the fields of Sociology, Criminology, Public Health, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, and Environmental Studies. It is also a valuable resource for any social scientist or practitioner interested in applying GIS technology to his or her work.
An Instructor's Resource CD, containing PowerPoint slides, test questions, and suggested Web site links, among other items, is also available to all professors adopting this text.
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This new book explores the rapidly expanding applications of spatial analysis, GIS and remote sensing in the health sciences, and medical geography. For the practitioner or researcher this book is full of useful techniques if your work applies to environmental and public health, biostatistics, epidemiology, health services, medical geography, medical entomology and much more. Professionals from many other fields will also find new applications for these powerful combined-technologies. This book in the Health Sciences is a springboard to extend existing uses - or create new ones - by highlighting practical applications without bogging you down in detailed technical data requirements and manipulations, software and hardware specifications, or the mathematics of geotechniques. It will help you understand the feasibility of developing the GIS/RS capabilities of your organisation.
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