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This book is a revised and updated version of a collection of presentations given by a group of distinguished researchers in the field of Geographic Information Science who gathered in Manchester in July 2001 and contains a collection of essays and discussions on this theme. It delves into subjects such as the nature of geographic information, the fundamental principles associated with it, how geographic information can be quantified, and how it can be communicated and related to the other information sciences. Foundations of Geographic Information Science should be useful for graduate students, researchers, and high-level professionals.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This book is a revised and updated version of a collection of presentations given by a group of distinguished researchers in the field of Geographic Information Science who gathered in Manchester in July 2001 and contains a collection of essays and discussions on this theme. It delves into subjects such as the nature of geographic information, the fundamental principles associated with it, how geographic information can be quantified, and how it can be communicated and related to the other information sciences. Foundations of Geographic Information Science should be useful for graduate students, researchers, and high-level professionals.
Autorenporträt
Matt Duckham is a visiting researcher at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of Maine, USA. He completed his PhD in spatial data quality at the University of Glasgow, UK, at the end of 1999, and worked for two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Keele, UK. He is currently co-authoring, with Michael Worboys, the second edition of the text book Geographic Information Systems: A Computing Perspective.