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Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn the basics of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), how to think about and approach problems spatially, and how GIS can be applied to your role at work.
Millions of organizations around the world are using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to make maps that communicate, perform analysis, share information, and solve challenging problems. In this course, Jennifer Harrison, President of TeachMeGIS and a consultant in the GIS field for nearly...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. This surprising connection between time and place has been true for centuries and is now being explored in Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the companion book to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition of the same name. This beautifully illustrated book covers five major periods of navigation history. The first period, when explorers were navigating...
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This book illustrates how literature, history and geographical analysis complement and enrich each others disciplinary endeavors. The Hun-Lenox Globe, constructed in 1510, contains the Latin phrase 'Hic sunt dracones' ('Here be dragons'), warning sailors of the dangers of drifting into uncharted waters. Nearly half a millennium earlier, the practice of 'earth-writing (geographia) emerged from the cloisters of the great library of Alexandria, as a...
Author
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Archaeological 3D GIS provides archaeologists with a guide to explore and understand the unprecedented opportunities for collecting, visualising and analysing archaeological datasets in three dimensions. With platforms allowing archaeologists to link, query and analyse in a virtual, georeferenced space information collected by different specialists, the book highlights how it is possible to re-think aspects of theory and practice which relate to...
8) Geography
Series
Publisher
In association with Rosen Educational Services
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"As the study of the diverse environments and places of Earth's surface, geography seeks to answer the questions of why things are as they are, where they are. This insightful volume delves into physical geography, which is concerned with places, and human geography, which deals with the people in the places--how and why they live where they do, and how their social, economic, and cultural characteristics vary from one place to another. Other subjects...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Use Google Maps, Google Drive, Bing Maps, and other web technologies to analyze, map, and share GIS data.
When Geographic Information Systems (GIS) meet some of the world's most exciting web-mapping technology, such as Google Maps, you get richer, more interactive maps and better insights into your data. GIS on the web means using tools like Google Maps, Bing Maps, and Esri to create map mashups: multilayered visualizations that combine data from...
10) Real-World GIS
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Get practical solutions to real-world GIS challenges.
Geographic information systems, or GIS, is a way to approach mapping and spacial analysis using a computer environment. Learning GIS requires training in cartography, database management, and spatial analysis. But once you've built a solid foundation in the basics, how do you approach GIS challenges in the real world? In this course, Dr. Jason VanHorn helps you master practical, real-world GIS...
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