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Data analysis and statistics for geography, environmental science, and engineering
This practical, classroom-tested textbook helps readers learn quantitative methodology, including how to implement advanced analysis methods using an open-source software platform. Based on the author's many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate students in several countries, the book brings together principles of statistics and probability, multivariate analysis, and spatial analysis methods applied to a variety of geographical and environmental models. Theory is accompanied by practical hands-on computer exercises, progressing from easy to difficult. The text also presents a review of mathematical methods, making the book self-contained.
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Geographical Information Systems
Web services, cloud computing, location based services, NoSQLdatabases, and Semantic Web offer new ways of accessing, analyzing, and elaborating geo-spatial information in both real-world and virtual spaces. This book explores the how-to of the most promising recurrent technologies and trends in GIS, such as Semantic GIS, Web GIS, Mobile GIS, NoSQL Geographic Databases, Cloud GIS, Spatial Data Warehousing-OLAP, and Open GIS. The text discusses and emphasizes the methodological aspects of such technologies and their applications in GIS.
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Geographical information retrieval in textual corpora
This book addresses the field of geographic information extraction and retrieval from textual documents.Geographic information retrieval is a rapidly emerging subject, a trend fostered by the growing power of the Internet and the emerging possibilities of data dissemination.
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Innovative Software Development in GIS
At a time when people use more and more geographic information and tools, the management of geographical information in software systems still holds many challenges and motivates researchers from different backgrounds to propose innovative solutions.
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Using geodata & geolocation in the social sciences : mapping our connected world
Covering context, concepts, and theories, as well as the practice of how to capture and visualise geodata, this text introduces readers to the Geoweb and how best to incorporate location-based data into research.
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Mapping
Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for the non-specialist reader. Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplines Represents the first in-depth summary of the \"new cartography\" that has appeared since the early 1990s Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readers Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studies Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory.
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