GIS Library Books

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Advanced Spatial Analysis

Author: edited by Paul A. Longley and Michael Batty

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2003, 460 pp.

Description: Advanced Spatial Analysis: The CASA book of GIS describes cutting-edge developments inGIS applications at University College Londons Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). Drawn fromarchaeology, architecture, cartography, computer science, environmental science, geography, planning,remote sensing, geomatic engineering and transport studies, these applications are emerging as the basis fspatial decision support systems across a wide range of industries and juri sdictions. Accessible andinnovative, these projects show how spatial analysis is essential to solving problems and creating insight inhow people live and how their quality of life can be enhanced.

ArcGIS and the Digital City: A hands-on approachfor local government

Author: William E. Huxhold, Eric M. Fowler, and Brian Parr


Description: When local governments decide to go digital and use a geographic information system (GIS) store and access information, many tasks need to be done. ArcGIS and the Digital City: A Hands-onApproach for Local Government provides step-by-step exercises using real data with ArcGIS that take youthrough the process of building and using GIS data in a local government. Containing the authentic nuts anbolts of daily GIS activities, this is a textbook for GIS classes in urban planning plus a workbook for localgovernments. After doing the exercises in ArcGIS and the Digital City: A Hands-on Approach for LocalGovernment, you will understand the power and the problems associated with working with real data in a Gand you will be able to use ArcGIS Desktop to address issues crucial to cities and counties. Please Note: T

exercises in this book require that you have a licensed copy of ArcInfo 9.

ArcHydro: GIS for Water Resources

Author: David R. Maidment


Description: Hydrology is the science dealing with the properties, distribution and circulation of water on thsurface of the land, in the soil and underlying rocks, and in the atmosphere. In recent years, the field hasbeen transformed as geographic information systems are increasingly used to model and analyse thedynamic hydrology at work on the planet. The ArcGIS Hydro data Model is a sophisticated template designto get hydrologists (as well as scientists from other disciplines) up and running with computer models of theown study areas. ArcHydro: GIS for Water Resources is the definitive book on the subject. The companionCD-ROM includes a digital version of the data model ready for deployment in ArcGIS along with other helpfresources.

GIS Tutorial for Health

Author: Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2006, 338pp.

Description: GIS Tutorial for Health is a unique textbook for teaching geographic information system(GIS) software to health professionals. This book is designed to help students use GIS to solve problems inhealth-care and gain hands-on experience visualizing and analyzing health-related data. The scenarios

address substantive issues of health care policy and planning.

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ArcView GIS Means Business - Volume One

Author: Christian Harder


Description: Written for business professionals, this book is a behind-the-scenes look at how some ofAmericas most successful companies have used desktop GIS technology. The book is loaded with full-coloillustrations and comes with a free trial copy of ArcView GIS 3.x software.

ArcGIS Means Business - Volume Two

Author: David Boyles


Description: Aimed at both business professionals and the general reader who is seeking to learn more, GMeans Business - Volume Two presents real-world stories of how companies, organisations and other entithave used GIS technology to their benefit to improve site selection, streamline routing, enhancesafety, save time and costs, promote growth, educate a workforce, and sell products. This book, which isintended as either a stand-alone work or companion volume to ArcView GIS Means Business (published byESRI Press in 1997), is packed with full-colour illustrations, maps, and other graphics that help tell the storieOffered as a starting point to the reader's education of what GIS means to businesses worldwide, the bookincludes a foreword by Christian Harder, author of ArcView GIS Means Business, the first volume of GISbusiness stories, and Serving Maps on the Internet.

Beyond Maps: GIS and Decision Making in LocalGovernment

Author: John O'Looney


Description: This book looks beyond the mechanisms of systems and screens to show how localgovernment can make geographical information systems true management tools. Exploring innovative waysto use GIS to improve local government operations, the book explains the unique capabilities of GIS,describes a wide spectrum of applications for local governments, and covers implementation issues andcommon pitfalls to look out for. Packed with case studies, this book helps you to find creative solutions tolocal government problems and integrate public values into decision making.

Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical MapTransformed

Author: David Rumsey and Edith M. Punt


Description: David Rumsey's collection of historical maps is one of the largest and most complete of its kinFocused for the most part on North and South America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thecollection is comprised of more than 150,000 items: maps, atlases, and contextual supporting documents.Unlike similar collections, the delicacy and rarity of which necessitate careful storage and restricted-usepolicies, The Rumsey Collection is available in growing numbers on the Web -- and it is this conjunction of oand new technologies that is the heart of Cartographica Extraordinaire. The maps selected for CartographicExtraordinaire tell a hundred distinct, exciting, important, and sometimes controversial stories, along two mapaths of inquiry: how did a continental wilderness become a civilization, and how has the development ofcartographic science changed the ways we perceive, describe, study, and use that land? Geographicinformation systems have come, as part of the digital revolution, to dominate the cartography of today, butGIS didn't leap into being out of nowhere; all its processes and capabilities have precursors in historicalmaps. Old maps can therefore tell us not only the stories of their subject matter, but stories about the natureof mapmaking as well: its exigencies and limitations, trends and developments -- its theory and practice andwhat that tells us about the people we were, are, and will be.


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Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping andMedicine

Author: Tom Koch

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, 408 pp

Description:A comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relationship to thebattle against disease, this look at medical mapping advances a radical argument that maps a

not merely representations of spatial realities but a way of thinking about relations between virand bacterial communities, human hosts, and the environments in which diseases flourish. Thhistory of medical mapping is tracedfrom its growth in the 19th century during an era of tradeand immigration to its renaissance in the 1990s during a new era of globalization. Referencingmaps older than John Snow's famous cholera maps of London in the mid-19th century, thissurvey pulls from the plague maps of the 1600s, while addressing current issues concerning thability of GIS technology to track diseases worldwide.

Children Map the World: Selections from the BarbaraPetchenik Childrens World Map Competition

Author: Edited by Jacqueline M. Anderson, Jeet Atwal, Patrick Wiegand, and Alberta AuringeWood


Description: This book presents a collection of 100 stunning reproductions of map-inspiredartworks by children. The images are culled from the entries over the first decade of an annuacompetition sponsored by the International Cartographic Association. In the words of theeditors, "It is a stimulating collection of children's work, maps that reveal core values insurprisingly subtle and complex expressions. The messages embedded in the maps aresometimes complex and culturally unfamiliar. Yet the maps are accessible and inspirational tous all."Community Geography: GIS in Action

Author: Kim Zanelli English and Laura S. Feaster


Description: Using real-world case studies and hands-on software exercises, Community Geography: GISAction will show students how geographic analysis can give them a new way of looking at the world, and

inspire them to investigate issues and solve problems in their own communities. Seven case studies descriinnovative GIS projects undertaken by students, teachers, and community partners in the United States andCanada. They encompass issues that matter, such as discovering and mapping landfills in residentialneighborhoods, tracking water quality, helping police to monitor crime hot spots, and taking inventories ofcommunity trees. Each case study is followed by a practical step-by-step exercise that incorporates spatialthinking, the tools of GIS software, geographic inquiry methods, and real data from the case studies.

Community Geography: GIS in Action TeachersGuide

Author: Lyn Malone, Anita M. Palmer, and Christine L. Voigt


Description: This companion to Community Geography: GIS in Action provides the how-to for teachersseeking to use the book in their classrooms. Fifteen middle school and high school companion lesson plans

include: Correlation to national geography, science, and technology standards Required materials andestimated time of completion - Authentic assessments - Answer keys - Lesson introductions and conclusionTeacher tips - Evaluation rubrics


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Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook

Author: R.W. Greene


Description: GIS technology has become the one unifying component that every community can use to plafor, respond to, and recover from, major disasters, whether these are natural events such as hurricanes, orthe man-made destruction of terrorist attack. By giving responders and disaster managers a way to analyseeach stage of a disaster visually and to synthesise complex information sets, GIS permits swifter decision-making and better communication. Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook is a hands-on guide for bothemergency-operations and GIS managers, as well as for government decision-makers, on ways to bestimplement GIS into disaster management. The book takes readers through the five stages of management Identification and Planning, Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery - and shows how GISprocesses can be incorporated into each. Using real-word examples from agencies across the USA, the booffers practical insights on using GIS technology to bring efficiency and speed to life-saving work.

Connecting Our World: GIS Web Services

Author: Winnie Tang and Jan Selwood


Description: Connecting Our World: GIS Web Services examines a dozen of the most innovative ways thaGIS Web services are being disseminated and are drawn from around the world. They encompass nationalmapping service delivery in New Zealand, digital map creation for on-the-run journalists in the U.S., locationbased services in Scandinavia and the use of enterprise information portals in Australia. Connecting OurWorld: GIS Web Services is an essential guide for forward-thinking managers in any enterprise who areinterested in fully leveraging the power of spatial data and information.

Conservation Geography: Case Studies in GIS,Computer mapping and Activism

Author: Charles L. Convis Jr. (Editor)

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2001, 250 pgs.

Description: Conservation Geography tells of the ways GIS is revolutionising the work of non-profitorganisations and other groups worldwide that are committed to conservation. From New York City to Kenythis book clearly shows the power of computers and GIS in transforming the way environmental problems aconservation issues are identified, measured, and ultimately, solved.

Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in GIS DataModeling

Author: David Arctur and Michael Zeiler


Description: ESRI has been working with our GIS user community during the last several years to developset of "best practices" geodatabase designs for various application domains. These database designs areintended to help GIS users rapidly become productive with the geodatabase and to share "what really workamong our user and developer communities. Building accurate geodatabases is the foundation for meaningand reliable GIS. By documenting actual case studies of successful ArcGIS implementations, DesigningGeodatabases makes it easier to envision your own database plan

Designing Better Maps

Author:Cynthia A. Brewer


Description:In a groundbreaking new book, noted cartographer and GIS expert Cynthia Brewer teaches inno-nonsense terms how to design powerful map layouts suited to whatever the ultimate mapping goal.Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Usersbreaks down the myriad of decisions about colour, font, andsymbology that must be made correctly to create maps that effectively communicate the message intendedby the mapmaker. Poorly designed maps are not just hard on the eyes, they can actually conveymisinformation and result in poor decision making. The author demystifies the basics of good cartography,walking the reader through layout design, scales and north ar rows, projections, colour selection, font choiceand symbol placement. Recognizing the need for integration with other publishing and design programs, thetext also covers various export options. The creation of publication-worthy maps is the goal. A technicalappendix describes the author's popular Colour Brewer application, an online tool designed to help peopleselect good colour schemes for maps and other graphics.


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Disaster Response: GIS for Public Safety

Author: Gary Amdahl


Description: This book examines the use of GIS to optimise response to natural and human-made disasteCase studies illustrate the best new strategies for mitigation, response, and recovery from both natural andhuman disasters. A wide variety of disasters and scenarios are represented, including lethal mudslides andwildfires, demonstrating how GIS is making emergency management a faster and more accurate means ofhelping people cope.

Enterprise GIS for Energy Companies



Description: Enterprise GIS for Energy Companies describes the variety of ways that utility companiesintegrate GIS technology to keep a country up and running monitoring energy supplies and asset distributiotracking sources of problems, and optimising customer services.

Extending ArcView GIS

Author: Tim Ormsby and Jonell Alvi

Publisher: ESRI Press, 1999, 540 pp. (CD Included)

Description: This sequel to the award winning Getting to Know ArcView GIS is written for those whounderstand basic GIS concepts and are ready to extend the analytical power of the core ArcView GISsoftware. The book consists of short conceptual overviews followed by detailed exercises framed in thecontext of real problems.

The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1:Geographic Patterns and Relationships

Author: Andy Mitchell


Description: By the author of the best-selling GIS classic Zeroing In: GIS at Work in the Community comesan important new book about how to do real analysis with a geographic information system. The ESRI Guidto GIS Analysis, Volume 1: Geographic Patterns and Relationships focuses on six of the most common

geographic analysis tasks.

The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2: SpatialMeasurements & Statistics



Description: In The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2: Spatial Measurements andStatistics, Mitchell takes us deeper, showing how an emerging set of tools that rely on spatialstatistics provides GIS users the capability to conduct detailed, mathematical analysis ofgeographic information. This second volume introduces statistical tools, geared specifically forgeographic analysis, that are relatively new to GIS software packages and thus to most GISusers. It shows the tools in use in many different applications, explains which tools are best wiwhich situations, and provides guidance on interpreting the results you get.


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Fun with GPS

Author: Donald Cooks


Description: Focusing on the lighter aspects of geospatial technology, Fun with GPS, deliverwhat the title promises. Based on his vast personal experience as a GPS enthusiast, GISindustry legend Donald Cooke shows how these ubiquitous little deviceswhen properly

integrated with some kind of mapping softwarecan provide endless entertainment and usefuinformation. In dozens of illustrated examples, Cooke shows how GPS devices can be attacheto just about anything (or anyone), including runners, race cars, sailboats, windsurfers, hockeyplayers, wild animals, and household pets. He even describes how users can track themselveon a map in real time flying across the country! Cooke advocates that GPS technology in theclassroom reinforces science, math, and geography curricula; provides groundwork for projectbased learning; and shows students that their schoolwork is important and relevant.

Geographic Information Systems and Science

Author: Paul Longley, Michael Goodchild, David Maguire, and David Rhind

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons and ESRI Press, 2001, 480 pp.

Description: This book explores many of the "real-world" applications of this rapidly evolving field andilluminates some of the growing commonalities between the concerns of business, government, and sciencDesigned for readers who are already familiar with GIS, this richly illustrated, full-colour book is aimed atthose who need clear and succinct information about this fast-developing technology.

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop - Basics ofArcView, ArcEditor & ArcInfo - (Second Edition,updated for ArcGIS 9 Desktop)

Author: Tim Ormsby, Eileen Napoleon, Robert Burke, Carolyn Groessl, and Laura Feaster


Description: Available now, Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop, Second Edition is a comprehensive update tthis best-selling workbook. The second edition revises existing material and adds new exercises based on

ArcGIS Desktop version 9, the latest release of the world's leading geographic information systems (GIS)software. Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop is a workbook for learning ArcGIS, the newest GIS technologyfrom ESRI. The book aims to introduce the user to the three GIS products that comprise ArcGIS, ArcView,ArcEditor, and ArcInfo, as well as the core software that forms the building blocks of ArcGIS: ArcMap,ArcCatalog, and ArcToolbox. Richly detailed illustrations and step-by-step exercises teach basic GIS tasksfrom mapmaking, to spatial analysis, to database creation.

Getting to Know ArcObjects

Author: Robert Burke

Publisher: ESRI Press

Description: Getting to Know ArcObjects teaches the basics of VBA programming, then progresses quicklyto ArcObjects. Readers learn what ArcObjects are, use object model diagrams to find out what individualobjects do, and program objects to execute specific GIS tasks. Getting to Know ArcObjects supports the selearner and makes a practical lab manual for instructors in the classroom. Those who are new toprogramming, or just new to ArcObjects, will find this book to be the perfect starting place for getting the moout of ArcGIS and the objects on which it is built. CD-ROM includes the complete set of ArcObjects objectmodel diagrams, spatial data used in the exercises, all code written in the exercises (which readers can adafor their own projects), and results. Required software: ArcView 8.3, ArcEditor 8.3, or ArcInfo 8.3 software isrequired to complete the exercises in this workbook.


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A to Z GIS

Editors: Tasha Wade and Shelley Sommer

Publisher: ESRI Press

Description: With definitions written, developed, and contributed by more than 150 subject-matter experts, Ato Z GIS: An Illustrated Dictionary of Geographic Information Systemsis packed with the following features:

More than 1,800 terms Nearly 400 full-color illustrations Seven encyclopedia-style appendix articles about annotation and labels, features, geometry, layers inArcGIS software, map projections and coordinate systems, remote sensing, and topology

A to Z GISis an indispensable guide and companion for anyone involved in the expanding field of geographinformation systems technology.

GIS and Land Records: The Parcel Data Model

Author: Nancy von Meyer


Description: GIS and Land Records: The ArcGIS Parcel Data Model is the definitive book about the datamodel developed as a framework for land record information in an ArcGIS environment. It captures the

collective experience gained from more than 20 years of managing parcel information using GIS. This bookdemonstrates how the data model supports real GIS work, including the update and maintenance of datacontent by tax assessors, planners, recorders, environmental mangers, public works officials, safety officialand others. Data designers learn how parcel information within their own jurisdictions can be implemented ia geodatabase using the ArcGIS parcel data model. Parcel managers and GIS professionals learn how tomove existing applications into a geodatabase. This book shows how the parcel data can be easilycustomized to satisfy different situations. In fact, the data model provides a quicker less-expensive solutiondata migration, the longest and costliest part of a GIS project.

GIS For Everyone, Third Edition

Author: David Davis

Publisher: ESRI Press 2003, 160 pp.

Description: Now everyone can create smart maps for school, work, home, or community action, using apersonal computer. Whether you're a student, businessperson, homemaker, or community activist, this boois your passport to the fascinating and useful world of geographic information and the software that brings ityour desktop, a geographic information system (GIS).

GIS for Health Organisations

Author: Laura Lang


Description: Health management is a rapidly developing field. In this book, you will see how physicians,public health officials, insurance providers, hospitals, epidemiologists, researchers, and HMO executives usGIS to focus resources to meet the needs of those in their care.

GIS for Landscape Architects

Author: Karen C. Hanna

Publisher: ESRI Press, 1999, 120 pp.Description: Through actual examples, you will learn how landscape architects, land planners and designenow rely on GIS to create visual frameworks within which spatial data and information are gathered,interpreted, manipulated, and shared. From Karen Hanna, noted landscape architect and GIS pioneer.


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GIS for Water Management in Europe

Author: Mike Bedford


Description:On the European continent, nations already geographically unified are becomingeven more closely aligned in other ways: administratively, politically, and economically.Nowhere are these alliances more clearly defined than in connection with the issue of

freshwater resources in Europe. GIS for Water Management in Europeshows the manyimaginative ways that European organizations, agencies, and governments are using GIStechnology to bring unity to a diverse group of problems. Author Mike Bedford shows howdrinking-water distribution, flood control, and pollution mitigation constitute only a few of thechallenges facing Europeans that are being tackled with GIS-based analytical, visualization, adata management tools.

GIS in Public Policy: Using GIS for More EffectiveGovernment

Author: R.W. Greene


Description: This book shows how policy makers and others on the front lines of public service, such asteachers, administrators, analysts, legislators, and police, are putting GIS to work. GIS is allowing them todistribute tax money more fairly, to protect life and property more effectively, and to serve urban and ruralconstituencies in new and more efficient ways. GIS in Public Policy vividly shows the very real benefits of thtechnology for anyone with an interest in, or influence over, the ways our institutions shape our lives.

GIS in Schools

Author: Richard Audet and Gail Ludwig


Description: GIS In Schools documents the ways classrooms, and learning, are being transformed inelementary, middle, and high schools across North America. It includes case studies that show what canhappen when students are given real-life problems to solve, along with the GIS technology to help solve the- new enthusiasm for learning, new dialogues between teachers and students, and new levels of interactionamong schools and communities.

GIS In Telecommunications

Author: Lisa Godin

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2001, 120 pages.

Description: Global competition is forcing telecommunication companies to stretch their boundaries as nevbefore, requiring efficiency and innovation in every aspect of the enterprise if they are to survive, if they areprosper, and especially if they are to come out on top. The book walks the reader through a number of GISbased innovations by leading telecommunication companies, where some of the industries most dauntingtasks have been simplified.

GIS, Spatial Analysis and Modeling

Author: Edited by David Maguire, Michael Batty and Michael Goodchild

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, pages.

Description: GIS, Spatial Analysis and Modelingis an anthology of new papers from some ofthe leading thinkers and innovators in the GIS world. The text serves as a snapshot in time ofthe state of the art (circa 2005) in GIS-based spatial analysis and modeling softwareapplications. Editors David Maguire, Micheal Batty, and Michael Goodchild show just how fargeoanalytical methods and tools have progressed in recent years. The numerous real-worldexamples describe an interesting range of socioeconomic and environmental applications.


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GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9

Author: Wilpen Gorr and Kristen S. Kurland


Description: GIS Tutorial, a Workbook for ArcView 9is a revolutionary new teaching tooldesigned with both self-study users and classroom students in mind. The book offers nine stepby-step, hands-on chapters for learning ArcView 9 software and was developed by Wilpen Go

and Kristen Kurland and tested at the GIS labs at Carnegie Mellon University. This title isreleased by ESRI Press for the first time to the wider global GIS marketplace. Students use aproven hands-on approach that simulates how a GIS project would be developed in the realworld. So-called Your Turn exercises included throughout the tutorials give students access toreal data with a tangible, clearly-defined end product as the goal. A companion CD includesadditional Challenge exercises for each tutorial chapter and integrative cases that cut acrosschapters. The book also includes a full working copy of ArcView software (good for 180 daysfrom installation) and the sample data required to run the exercises.GIS Worlds: Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures

Author: Ian Masser


Description:As the world's governments increasingly come to terms with the fact thatgeospatial technologies must be a central component of their national information systems, the

need for standards and uniformly accepted ways of storing and sharing geographic informatiohas never been greater. In GIS Worldsauthor Ian Masser, one of the world's leading thinkers the subject, describes the emergence of the spatial data infrastructure (SDI) phenomenon andshows the relative diffusion and evolution of SDIs around the world. Masser explores theimplementation of SDIs from a practical perspective and outlines a method of institution buildinfor regional, continental, and global SDIs. This timely and important title promises to strengtheeven further the need for intelligent governance and strong leadership in the GIS and spatialdata communities.

Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling Support with GI

Author: Compiled and edited by Dr. David Maidment and Dr. Dean Djokic,


Description: The papers in this book were among those presented at the 1999 ESRI International UserConference on hydrologic and hydraulic water quantity modelling support using GIS. Although the modelsfeatured were developed for specific applications, the techniques presented apply to any hydrologic andhydraulic model that requires spatial input or that produces spatial output.

Integrating GIS with and the Global PositioningSystem

Author: Karen Steede-Terry


Description: This is an introduction to the powerful synergy between GIS and GPS technologies. This bookcovers the basics of GPS what the components are, how they work in theory and in practice, howaccuracy can be improved almost to the pinpoint and presents several case studies that illustratsome of the ways the power of GPS is being harnessed to the depth of GIS: accuracy in measurement and

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Making Community Connections

Author: Lyman Orton and Noel Fritzinger


Description: This book is designed to bring teams of teachers and their students together with communitymembers to study a problem, a resource, a condition, or any matter of interest and importance to thecommunity. The school work includes gathering and examining existing information, discovering new factsthrough field investigation, and mapping the resource using GIS/GPS tools. Exercises within the book provia body of research to the community which can be used to address immediate concerns and help plan for tfuture. The materials in Making Community Connections have been constructed to provide a solid foundatioand flexible framework for original projects created and developed by students, their teachers, and theircommunities, allowing explorations and investigations of places and problems of interest and concern tothem.

Managing Natural resources with GIS

Author: Laura Lang


Description: Find out how GIS technology helps people design solutions to such pressing challenges aswildfires, urban blight, air and water degradation, species endangerment, disaster mitigation, coastlineerosion, and public education. The experiences of public and private organisations provide real-worldexamples.

Mapping the News: Case Studies in GIS and

Journalism

Author: David Herzog

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2003, 164 p

Description: Mapping the News: Case Studies in GIS and Journalism shows how GIS and computer-assisted reporting are revolutionizing the news business. Packed with full-color illustrations, maps, and othegraphics that help describe the ten case studies, the book also contains an introduction to GIS and how itworks. Two detailed appendixes can help journalists immediately get started with GIS and also learn how toacquire free data to aid in news gathering and information analysis. Taken together, the case-study exampland resources in Mapping the News make the volume an important guide for newsroom managers,

journalists, and student journalists who want to enhance their reporting abilities and strengthen theircompetitive edge.

Marine Geography: GIS for the Ocean and Seas

Author: Edited by Joe Breman


Description: Featuring real-world examples from ocean trenches, this collection of articles by leadingresearchers and marine biologists shows some of the many ways that GIS technology is contributing to ourunderstanding of the underwater environment. From improving oil spill response and mapping marinebiodiversity to protecting at-risk coastal areas and improving navigation safety in crowded travel corridors, tbooks shows how digital mapping and spatial analysis can serve as the integrated technology that allowsvarious stakeholders to communicate in a common language. Written in a friendly magazine style suitable fa non-technical audience, this case study book makes an excellent companion to the more scientificUndersea with GIS also available from ESRI Australia.

Measuring Up: The Business Case for GIS

Author: Christopher Thomas and Milton Ospina


Description: "Whether you work in the public or private sector, Measuring Up will help you gain insight abohow intelligent geographic information systems?digital versions of geography?encapsulate our knowledgeand provide a foundation to help us better serve our world by improving efficiencies, decision making,planning, accountability, and communication." (Jack Dangermond, ESRI President). Measuring Up presents75 articles from 22 business sectors. They tell us not only what people around the globe are doing with GISbut how these new business processes have improved communities and organizations


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Modelling Our World: The ESRI Guide toGeodatabase Design

Author: Michael Zeiler


Description: Modelling Our World is the comprehensive guide and reference to GIS data modelling ingeneral, and to the geodatabase model in particular. It shows how to make the right decisions aboutmodelling data decisions that will inform each aspect of a GIS project, from database design and data captuto spatial analysis and visual presentation.

Open Access: GIS in e-Government

Author: R.W. Greene


Description: A collection of case studies examining the ways local, state, federal, and regional governmenagencies are making themselves available online. Electronic payment of taxes, a streamlined applicationprocess for permits, increased inclusiveness of community members in community planning, and enhancedemergency capability, are just a few of the ways government agencies are using GIS to bring new meaningand new depth to their entire e-Government enterprise.

Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History

Author: Edited by Anne Kelly Knowles


Description: This pioneering book shows how GIS technology can illuminate the study of history. Itencompasses a broad range of history, from the Greek and Roman eras to the Salem witch trials, the DustBowl of the 1930s, and the shifting human mosaic of 20th-century New York City. In each chapter, leadingscholars explain how mapping and spatial analysis with GIS put geography at the heart of historical inquiry.Richly illustrated, Past Time, Past Place makes a vivid supplement to many courses in history, geography,sociology, anthropology, religious studies, and GIS. It will also fascinate arm-chair historians who read histowith an atlas at their side.

Planning Support Systems: Integrating GeographicInformation Systems, Models and VisualisationTools

Author: Richard K. Brail and Richard E. Klosterman (Editors)


Description: Planning Support Systems offers views of new possibilities in land use planning from theacknowledged experts in the field. The editors have assembled papers from colleagues working to expandunderstanding and applicability of a dozen of the most important aspects of computer-aided planning.

Remote Sensing for GIS Managers

Author: Stan Aronoff


Description:From satellite images of the ozone layer to radar readings of the ocean floor tohigh-resolution aerial photography, the use of remote-sensing technology as a primary datasource for GIS is mushrooming. In Remote Sensing for GIS Mangers, author Stan Aronoff

covers such topics as aerial photography, multispectral scanners, thermal infrared, radar, lidarand sonar in ways that make sense for GIS professionals attempting to utilize this rich andincreasingly affordable data source. The book is well illustrated and contains examples of awide range of earth resource applications, such as agriculture, forestry, geology, meteorology,urban infrastructure, and wildlife management.


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Serving Maps on the Internet



Description:Take an insiders look at how todays forward thinking organisations distribute mapbased information via the Internet. Case studies cover a range of applications for Internet Mapserver technology from ESRI. This book should interest anyone who wants to publish geospatdata on the World Wide Web.

Spatial Portals: Gateways to Geographic Informatio

Author: Winnie Tang and Jan Selwood


Description:The idea of a spatial portala new type of Web site designed to serve as a kind"air traffic controller" for geographic information-is revolutionizing the way GIS professionalsmanage, find, share, and use knowledge, from the local level to the world stage. In SpatialPortals: Gateways to Geographic Information, authors Winnie Tang and Jan Selwood present thorough overview of this evolving phenomenon and convincingly summarize the opportunitiesdevelopments, challenges, and issues that are now impacting the way today's GIS systems arbeing designed, developed, and managed.

System for Survival: GIS and SustainableDevelopment

Author: Allan Falconer and Joyce Foresman, Editors


Category: Other Publications

Description: Synthesising the vast amounts of data being collected about natural resources, population,health, education, public safety, and more - all within highly accurate and specific geographic contexts - GIScan help people assess and understand their community and environment, and change policy and practice all levels, from the individual to the international. A System for Survival: GIS and Sustainable Developmentdescribes examples of how GIS has been crucial in many democratic governance and civil liberty programsand serves to help make people more aware of how geographic technologies can play a creative andconstructive role as we deal with the monumental challenges humanity faces.

Revised and UpdatedThinking about GIS: GeographicInformation System Planning for Managers

Author: Roger Tomlinson


Description: The new paperback edition of this practical book for those charged with implementing ageographic information system now contains updated charts with year 20042005 numbers. Thinking AboGIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers, by eminent GIS pioneer Roger Tomlinson ispacked with planning wisdom from the man commonly referred to as the father of GIS, is the distillation ofTomlinsons wisdom gleaned from a career spent launching large-scale GIS implementations for clientsaround the globe. The book is targeted at two primary audiences: senior managers who oversee GIS andother information technologies in their organizations, and the more technical managers responsible for theactual implementation of these systems. By addressing the issues of concern to both audiences, the authorgives both groups a common platform on which to conduct serious GIS planning.

Think Globally, Act Regionally: GIS and Data Visualizationfor Social Science and Public Policy Research

Author: Richard LeGates

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, pp.

Description: In Think Globally, Act Regionally, author Richard LeGates argues that locationand spatial relationships are important dimensions in all the real-world concerns of socialscientists and public policy professionals, but social scientists and public policy professionalsother than geographersoften neglect the spatial aspect of phenomena. This book encouragestudents to apply what they learn in solving problems. Combining real-world examples withhands-on GIS exercises, this volume will serve well in many social science and public policycourses.


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Transportation GIS

Author: Laura Lang


Description: From monitoring rail systems and airplane noise levels to making bus routes more efficient animproving roads, this book describes how geographic information system software has emerged as the toolchoice for transportation planners.

Undersea with GIS

Author: Edited by Dawn Wright, Foreword by Sylvia Earle


Description: This collection of essays from experts in marine biology, oceanography, aquatic resourcemanagement, and other fields, charts the ways in which GIS is beginning to help improve understanding ofthe oceans. Issues discussed include efforts to map the sea's floor, tracking the journeys of whales and tunto preserve species in threatened areas, developing new kinds of nautical charts to give mariners anastonishing three-dimensional view of their progress through the water, and how GIS might be used to trackthe location of sunken vessels more efficiently. This book includes a companion CD-ROM containing aninteractive view of this progress.

Zeroing In: GIS at Work in the Community



Description: In 12 tales from the digital map age, this book shows how people use GIS in their daily jobs.The book shows GIS at work in every aspect of community life: schools, public safety, housing, economicgrowth, and more. An accessible and engaging introduction to GIS for anyone who deals with geographicinformation.

GIS for Environmental Management

Author: Robert Scally

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2006 187 pp.

Description:Complex environmental challenges increasingly demand sophisticated solutions. GIS forEnvironmental Managementoutlines the ways that GIS is fulfilling the need of humanity to better manage,protect, and preserve the environment.

GIS for the Urban Environment

Author: Juliana Maantay and John Ziegler


Description:GIS for the Urban Environmentfocuses on the use of GIS in urban planning and problem solviand is aimed at both large and small cities and metropolitan areas. It will be of interest to all students andpractitioners who want to learn more about how they might apply GIS to their daily practices, be they in urbaplanning, public health, urban environmental assessment, hazard and emergency management, geographicanalysis, or sustainable community development.


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Mapping Global Cities GIS Methods in UrbanAnalysis

Author: Ayse Pamuk


Description:Spatial thinking and analysis are essential for intelligent urban policymaking in a globallyconnected world. Urban planners need to understand how cities are organized and how residential patternsare shaped as a result of population and employment changes. Otherwise, they risk designing urban plansand policies that are unrealistic and exclusionary. Geographic information systems (GIS) can be usefullyapplied by planners to new urban development challenges in global metropolitan regions and megacities,particularly those where rapid demographic changes, including immigration, have spurred massive growth.

Charting the Unknown How Computer Mapping atHarvard Became GIS

Author: Nick Chrisman


Description:This book explores some of the themes addressed by this fertile interdisciplinary collaborationIt includes some of the early computer mapping software and experimentation in cartography. It alsointroduces some of the spatial analysis and applications to environmental planning conducted at the

Laboratory. It charts the cycles of expansion and decline as the creativity confronted challenges on manyfronts. Around the edges are glimpses of some of the key figures involved in this exploration.

Smart Land-Use Analysis The LUCIS Model

Author: Margaret H Carr and Paul D Zwick

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2007 277pp.

Description:Smart Land-Use Analysis presents the land-use conflict identification strategy (LUCIS), aproven method for using geographic information system (GIS) technology to analyze land-use suitability,stakeholder preferences, and conflicts between competing land interests. In the hands of a knowledgeableanalyst, LUCIS can provide a reliable projection as to which lands will remain in their current use and whichlands will likely change in the future. With this information, various land-use scenarios can be considered byplanners. For example, if development continues at its current rate and in the standard fashion, what will aland-use map for any region look like in 35 years? On the other hand, if development policies change, how

will things look different?

Understanding Place GIS & Mapping Across theCurriculum.

Author: Sinton & Lund


Description:GIS mapping software is not the educational revolution of the 21st century, but it is a powerfutool for teaching and learning. Each case study in this volume describes how an experienced instructor hasused GIS in the service of his or her own teaching, within the traditions of a classical undergraduateeducation. Authors describe how they integrated mapping software into their syllabi, pursuing the learninggoals of their discipline, striving to create a realistic learning environment in which students practice inquiry

their field. Chapters span the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.


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Cartographic Relief Presentations

Author: Edward Imhof


Description The renowned Swiss cartographer, Eduard Imhof, devoted his career to raising the standards map design. In 1965, his breakthrough book published in German, Kartographische Gelandedarstellung, fila huge void in cartographic instruction. The book was translated into English in 1982 as Cartographic ReliePresentation, expanding its influence and reasserting Imhof's mission to improve the precision and readabilof maps. Cartographic Relief Presentationwas an expensive book with a limited press run that made it a rafind in recent years. This new edition of Cartographic Relief Presentationwas edited for clarity andconsistency but preserves Imhof's insightful commentary and analytical style. Color maps, aerial photograpand instructive illustrations are faithfully reproduced. The book offers guidelines for properly rendering terrain maps of all types and scales, whether drawn by traditional means or with the aid of a computer.Cartographic Relief Presentationwas among the essential mapping and graphical design books of thetwentieth century. Its continuing relevance for the twenty-first century is assured with this publication.

Research and Theory in Advancing Spatial DataInfrastructure Concepts

Author:Harlan Onsrud


Description Spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) have come a long way in the last two decades. In this timelyscholarly volume, Harlan Onsrud, past president of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association,presents the latest research by renowned international experts and offers insights into possible directions in

which SDIs may be headed. Firmly rooted in a broad societal context, the studies take technical, legal,economic, and institutional challenges head-on, with a strong emphasis on the needs of developing nationsThe research analyzes models for planning, financing, and implementing SDI initiatives and assesses theextent to which established SDI projects in Australia, India, and the European Union are contributing tonational economic competitiveness and social well-being. The book includes examples of how instrumentalSDIs can be in disaster preparedness and poverty management, and it examines the integration of intellectproperty rights within the framework of international SDI collaboration.

Thinking About GIS, Third Edition

Author:Roger Tomlinson

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2007 254pp

DescriptionThis book details a practical method for implementing a GIS developed by the man known as tfather of GIS. Dr. Roger Tomlinson has distilled a lifetime of professional experience into a clear andstructured format that guides readers step by step through planning for a geographic information system. Aproven success over many years of use in public- and private-sector organizations, the Tomlinson model

really works for the enterprise-wide project as well as the single-shop launch.

GIS Tutorial for Marketing

Author: Dr Fred L Miller


Description The value of geographic information system (GIS) technology for the business and marketingindustry has never been greater than it is today. Small and large businesses alike are finding GIS to be anindispensable analysis tool in site selection, market area analysis, sales territory management, customerprofiling, sales and service-call routing, and merchandising strategy development, to name just a few specifapplications. But software training geared toward this burgeoning discipline is scarce. Filled with relevant,scenario-based, hands-on exercises, GIS Tutorial for Marketingis an important and timely resource for thoswho want to take business and marketing research to the next level.

This ArcGIS software tutorial is designed to complement the standard curriculum of any undergraduatemarketing program. Each chapter focuses on a marketing scenario that relates to a specific course in themarketing curriculum. The non-sequential nature of the chapters allows marketing students to develop theirGIS skills as they progress through the marketing curriculum, whatever path they may take. This volume isalso an excellent resource for professionals who want to use GIS in marketing applications. No previous GIexperience is requiredthis book will give beginning students or professionals the knowledge and experienrequired to gain a distinctive edge in planning marketing strategies and solving marketing problems.

The book includes a DVD that contains a 180-day trial version of ArcGIS 9.2 and a data CD with tutorialdatasets and samples of ArcGIS Business Analyst and Community Tapestry data.


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GIS Tutorial, Second Edition (Updated for 9.2)

Author:Wilpen L. Gorr and Kristen S. Kurland


Description Workbook for ArcView 9 Demands for effective GIS training are growing as more and moreacademic and professional disciplines begin to rely on this powerful technology to create maps, collect dataand perform advanced analysis. Designed for a broad audience, GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9,Second Edition, meets this growing demand by combining ArcGIS tutorials and self-study exercises that stawith the basics and progress to more difficult functionality. Presented in a step-by-step format, the book canbe adapted to your specific training needs, whether these involve teaching GIS to a classroom of graduatestudents or using the book for individual study.

Within the tutorials, students will learn to use a range of GIS functionality, from creating maps and collectingdata to using geo-processing tools and models for advanced analysis. The reader-friendly exercises makeGIS Tutorialthe perfect choice for beginners and more experienced users of GIS, regardless of theirbackground.

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