GIS Fundamentals

This comprehensive, accessible, and reasonably priced GIS text is bigger and better!

• Introduction to GIS that also covers advanced topics

• Features dozens of in-depth examples

• Hundreds of explanatory figures

• Study questions with answers

7th Edition Improvements

• Thoroughly updated, including new material on modeling, datums, global navigation, remote sensing, and databases

• Updated student study questions

• Updated glossary, data sources, and formulas

• Available in print, digital, and FlexEd formats

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Contents (PDF with detailed contents)

1. Introduction

2. Data Models

3. Geodesy, Datums, Map Projections, and Coordinate Systems

4. Maps, Data Entry, Editing, and Output

5. Global Navigation Satellite Systems and Coordinate Surveying

6. Aerial and Satellite Images 

7. Digital Data 

8. Attribute Data and Tables

9. Basic Spatial Analysis

10. Topics in Raster Analysis

11. Terrain Analysis

12. Spatial Estimation: Interpolation, Prediction, and Core Area Delineation

13. Spatial Models and Modeling

14. Data Standards and Data Quality

15. New Developments in GIS