Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 320 pages
- Published by: Oxford University Press, USA October 19, 2000
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0198233817
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0198233817
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Book Dimensions:
9.6 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Description
This book provides a clear conceptual framework, consistent terminology, reference cases, and recommended practices for design, implementation, and management of GII. It is meant for professionals in higher education, practitioners faced with the design, implementation, and maintenance of GII in municipalities, other levels of government and private sector enterprise, as well as the international financial institutions involved with underwriting GII projects.
About The Author
Richard Groot is a Professor at the International Institute for Aerospace Surveys and Earth Sciences in the Netherlands.
John Douglas McLaughlin is a Professor of Land Studies at the Faculty of Geodesy and Geomatics and Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, Canada
Reader ReviewsPerhaps you might think of this book as an ab initio explanation of how to use geospatial data. Primarily written for the benefit of geographers and urban planners. Explaining how they can use this very rich source of data to annotate their designs and aid planning. Hence there is a section on what is termed foundation technologies. About such things as client-server architecture and various types of computer networks. All the way down to the different transmission media like coaxial cables or optical fibre. Then, the discussion goes onto the higher levels of perhaps having a federated database including what this means, of course. More generally, you are shown how various types of geospatial data can be attached for objects that have a fixed location. Such data might include soil type, water level, humidity etc. Unsurprisingly, GPS gets a lot of attention by the text. Its ease of use, and the continuing fall in price of devices with GPS functionality, can transform a lot of geographic field applications. Related to this is a concomitant discussion of remote sensing, as a means of getting a massive amount of information at essentially one instance, of a given area.
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