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Advanced Spatial Analysis

Author: edited by Paul A. Longley and Michael Batty Publisher: ESRI Press, 2003, 460 pp. Description: Advanced Spatial Analysis: The CASA book of GIS describes cutting-edge developments in GIS applications at University College Londons Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). Drawn from archaeology, architecture, cartography, computer science, environmental science, geography, planning, remote sensing, geomatic engineering and transport studies, these applications are emerging as the basis for spatial decision support systems across a wide range of industries and jurisdictions. Accessible and innovative, these projects show how spatial analysis is essential to solving problems and creating insight into how people live and how their quality of life can be enhanced.

ArcGIS and the Digital City: A hands-on approach for local government
Author: William E. Huxhold, Eric M. Fowler, and Brian Parr Publisher: ESRI Press, 2004, 322 pp. Description: When local governments decide to go digital and use a geographic information system (GIS) to store and access information, many tasks need to be done. ArcGIS and the Digital City: A Hands-on Approach for Local Government provides step-by-step exercises using real data with ArcGIS that take you through the process of building and using GIS data in a local government. Containing the authentic nuts and bolts of daily GIS activities, this is a textbook for GIS classes in urban planning plus a workbook for local governments. After doing the exercises in ArcGIS and the Digital City: A Hands-on Approach for Local Government, you will understand the power and the problems associated with working with real data in a GIS, and you will be able to use ArcGIS Desktop to address issues crucial to cities and counties. Please Note: The exercises in this book require that you have a licensed copy of ArcInfo 9.

ArcHydro: GIS for Water Resources

Author: David R. Maidment Publisher: ESRI Press, 2002, 218 pp. Description: Hydrology is the science dealing with the properties, distribution and circulation of water on the surface of the land, in the soil and underlying rocks, and in the atmosphere. In recent years, the field has been transformed as geographic information systems are increasingly used to model and analyse the dynamic hydrology at work on the planet. The ArcGIS Hydro data Model is a sophisticated template designed to get hydrologists (as well as scientists from other disciplines) up and running with computer models of their own study areas. ArcHydro: GIS for Water Resources is the definitive book on the subject. The companion CD-ROM includes a digital version of the data model ready for deployment in ArcGIS along with other helpful resources.

GIS Tutorial for Health

Author: Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. Publisher: ESRI Press, 2006, 338pp.

Description: GIS Tutorial for Health is a unique textbook for teaching geographic information system
(GIS) software to health professionals. This book is designed to help students use GIS to solve problems in health-care and gain hands-on experience visualizing and analyzing health-related data. The scenarios address substantive issues of health care policy and planning.

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ArcView GIS Means Business - Volume One

Author: Christian Harder Publisher: ESRI Press, 1997, 136 pp. Description: Written for business professionals, this book is a behind-the-scenes look at how some of Americas most successful companies have used desktop GIS technology. The book is loaded with full-colour illustrations and comes with a free trial copy of ArcView GIS 3.x software.

ArcGIS Means Business - Volume Two

Author: David Boyles Publisher: ESRI Press, 2002, 180 pp. Description: Aimed at both business professionals and the general reader who is seeking to learn more, GIS Means Business - Volume Two presents real-world stories of how companies, organisations and other entities have used GIS technology to their benefit to improve site selection, streamline routing, enhance safety, save time and costs, promote growth, educate a workforce, and sell products. This book, which is intended as either a stand-alone work or companion volume to ArcView GIS Means Business (published by ESRI Press in 1997), is packed with full-colour illustrations, maps, and other graphics that help tell the stories. Offered as a starting point to the reader's education of what GIS means to businesses worldwide, the book includes a foreword by Christian Harder, author of ArcView GIS Means Business, the first volume of GIS business stories, and Serving Maps on the Internet.

Beyond Maps: GIS and Decision Making in Local Government

Author: John O'Looney Publisher: ESRI Press, 2000, 240 pp. Description: This book looks beyond the mechanisms of systems and screens to show how local government can make geographical information systems true management tools. Exploring innovative ways to use GIS to improve local government operations, the book explains the unique capabilities of GIS, describes a wide spectrum of applications for local governments, and covers implementation issues and common pitfalls to look out for. Packed with case studies, this book helps you to find creative solutions to local government problems and integrate public values into decision making.

Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed

Author: David Rumsey and Edith M. Punt Publisher: ESRI Press, 2004, 160 pp. Description: David Rumsey's collection of historical maps is one of the largest and most complete of its kind. Focused for the most part on North and South America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the collection is comprised of more than 150,000 items: maps, atlases, and contextual supporting documents. Unlike similar collections, the delicacy and rarity of which necessitate careful storage and restricted-use policies, The Rumsey Collection is available in growing numbers on the Web -- and it is this conjunction of old and new technologies that is the heart of Cartographica Extraordinaire. The maps selected for Cartographica Extraordinaire tell a hundred distinct, exciting, important, and sometimes controversial stories, along two main paths of inquiry: how did a continental wilderness become a civilization, and how has the development of cartographic science changed the ways we perceive, describe, study, and use that land? Geographic information systems have come, as part of the digital revolution, to dominate the cartography of today, but GIS didn't leap into being out of nowhere; all its processes and capabilities have precursors in historical maps. Old maps can therefore tell us not only the stories of their subject matter, but stories about the nature of mapmaking as well: its exigencies and limitations, trends and developments -- its theory and practice and what that tells us about the people we were, are, and will be.

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Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping and Medicine

Author: Tom Koch Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, 408 pp Description: A comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relationship to the battle against disease, this look at medical mapping advances a radical argument that maps are not merely representations of spatial realities but a way of thinking about relations between viral and bacterial communities, human hosts, and the environments in which diseases flourish. The history of medical mapping is tracedfrom its growth in the 19th century during an era of trade and immigration to its renaissance in the 1990s during a new era of globalization. Referencing maps older than John Snow's famous cholera maps of London in the mid-19th century, this survey pulls from the plague maps of the 1600s, while addressing current issues concerning the ability of GIS technology to track diseases worldwide.

Children Map the World: Selections from the Barbara

Petchenik Childrens World Map Competition
Author: Edited by Jacqueline M. Anderson, Jeet Atwal, Patrick Wiegand, and Alberta Auringer Wood Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, 128 pp Description: This book presents a collection of 100 stunning reproductions of map-inspired artworks by children. The images are culled from the entries over the first decade of an annual competition sponsored by the International Cartographic Association. In the words of the editors, "It is a stimulating collection of children's work, maps that reveal core values in surprisingly subtle and complex expressions. The messages embedded in the maps are sometimes complex and culturally unfamiliar. Yet the maps are accessible and inspirational to us all."

Community Geography: GIS in Action

Author: Kim Zanelli English and Laura S. Feaster Publisher: ESRI Press, 2003, 296 pp Description: Using real-world case studies and hands-on software exercises, Community Geography: GIS in Action will show students how geographic analysis can give them a new way of looking at the world, and inspire them to investigate issues and solve problems in their own communities. Seven case studies describe innovative GIS projects undertaken by students, teachers, and community partners in the United States and Canada. They encompass issues that matter, such as discovering and mapping landfills in residential neighborhoods, tracking water quality, helping police to monitor crime hot spots, and taking inventories of community trees. Each case study is followed by a practical step-by-step exercise that incorporates spatial thinking, the tools of GIS software, geographic inquiry methods, and real data from the case studies.

Community Geography: GIS in Action Teachers Guide

Author: Lyn Malone, Anita M. Palmer, and Christine L. Voigt Publisher: ESRI Press, 2003, 152 pp. Description: This companion to Community Geography: GIS in Action provides the how-to for teachers seeking to use the book in their classrooms. Fifteen middle school and high school companion lesson plans include: Correlation to national geography, science, and technology standards Required materials and estimated time of completion - Authentic assessments - Answer keys - Lesson introductions and conclusions Teacher tips - Evaluation rubrics

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Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook

Author: R.W. Greene Publisher: ESRI Press, 2002, 160 pp. Description: GIS technology has become the one unifying component that every community can use to plan for, respond to, and recover from, major disasters, whether these are natural events such as hurricanes, or the man-made destruction of terrorist attack. By giving responders and disaster managers a way to analyse each stage of a disaster visually and to synthesise complex information sets, GIS permits swifter decisionmaking and better communication. Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook is a hands-on guide for both emergency-operations and GIS managers, as well as for government decision-makers, on ways to best implement GIS into disaster management. The book takes readers through the five stages of management Identification and Planning, Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery - and shows how GIS processes can be incorporated into each. Using real-word examples from agencies across the USA, the book offers practical insights on using GIS technology to bring efficiency and speed to life-saving work.

Connecting Our World: GIS Web Services

Author: Winnie Tang and Jan Selwood Publisher: ESRI Press, 2003, 160 pp Description: Connecting Our World: GIS Web Services examines a dozen of the most innovative ways that GIS Web services are being disseminated and are drawn from around the world. They encompass national mapping service delivery in New Zealand, digital map creation for on-the-run journalists in the U.S., locationbased services in Scandinavia and the use of enterprise information portals in Australia. Connecting Our World: GIS Web Services is an essential guide for forward-thinking managers in any enterprise who are interested in fully leveraging the power of spatial data and information.

Conservation Geography: Case Studies in GIS, Computer mapping and Activism

Author: Charles L. Convis Jr. (Editor) Publisher: ESRI Press, 2001, 250 pgs. Description: Conservation Geography tells of the ways GIS is revolutionising the work of non-profit organisations and other groups worldwide that are committed to conservation. From New York City to Kenya this book clearly shows the power of computers and GIS in transforming the way environmental problems and conservation issues are identified, measured, and ultimately, solved.

Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling

Author: David Arctur and Michael Zeiler Publisher: ESRI Press, 2004, 408 pp. Description: ESRI has been working with our GIS user community during the last several years to develop a set of "best practices" geodatabase designs for various application domains. These database designs are intended to help GIS users rapidly become productive with the geodatabase and to share "what really works" among our user and developer communities. Building accurate geodatabases is the foundation for meaningful and reliable GIS. By documenting actual case studies of successful ArcGIS implementations, Designing Geodatabases makes it easier to envision your own database plan

Designing Better Maps

Author: Cynthia A. Brewer Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, 220 pp
Description: In a groundbreaking new book, noted cartographer and GIS expert Cynthia Brewer teaches in no-nonsense terms how to design powerful map layouts suited to whatever the ultimate mapping goal. Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users breaks down the myriad of decisions about colour, font, and symbology that must be made correctly to create maps that effectively communicate the message intended by the mapmaker. Poorly designed maps are not just hard on the eyes, they can actually convey misinformation and result in poor decision making. The author demystifies the basics of good cartography, walking the reader through layout design, scales and north arrows, projections, colour selection, font choices, and symbol placement. Recognizing the need for integration with other publishing and design programs, the text also covers various export options. The creation of publication-worthy maps is the goal. A technical appendix describes the author's popular Colour Brewer application, an online tool designed to help people select good colour schemes for maps and other graphics.

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Disaster Response: GIS for Public Safety

Author: Gary Amdahl Publisher: ESRI Press, 2001, 136 pp. Description: This book examines the use of GIS to optimise response to natural and human-made disasters. Case studies illustrate the best new strategies for mitigation, response, and recovery from both natural and human disasters. A wide variety of disasters and scenarios are represented, including lethal mudslides and wildfires, demonstrating how GIS is making emergency management a faster and more accurate means of helping people cope.

Enterprise GIS for Energy Companies

Author: Christian Harder Publisher: ESRI Press, 1999, 120 pp. Description: Enterprise GIS for Energy Companies describes the variety of ways that utility companies integrate GIS technology to keep a country up and running monitoring energy supplies and asset distribution, tracking sources of problems, and optimising customer services.

Extending ArcView GIS

Author: Tim Ormsby and Jonell Alvi Publisher: ESRI Press, 1999, 540 pp. (CD Included) Description: This sequel to the award winning Getting to Know ArcView GIS is written for those who understand basic GIS concepts and are ready to extend the analytical power of the core ArcView GIS software. The book consists of short conceptual overviews followed by detailed exercises framed in the context of real problems.

The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1: Geographic Patterns and Relationships
Author: Andy Mitchell Publisher: ESRI Press, 1999, 188 pp. Description: By the author of the best-selling GIS classic Zeroing In: GIS at Work in the Community comes an important new book about how to do real analysis with a geographic information system. The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1: Geographic Patterns and Relationships focuses on six of the most common geographic analysis tasks.

The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2: Spatial Measurements & Statistics
Author: Andy Mitchell Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, 252 pp. Description: In The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2: Spatial Measurements and Statistics, Mitchell takes us deeper, showing how an emerging set of tools that rely on spatial statistics provides GIS users the capability to conduct detailed, mathematical analysis of geographic information. This second volume introduces statistical tools, geared specifically for geographic analysis, that are relatively new to GIS software packages and thus to most GIS users. It shows the tools in use in many different applications, explains which tools are best with which situations, and provides guidance on interpreting the results you get.

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Fun with GPS

Author: Donald Cooks Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, 152 pp. Description: Focusing on the lighter aspects of geospatial technology, Fun with GPS, delivers what the title promises. Based on his vast personal experience as a GPS enthusiast, GIS industry legend Donald Cooke shows how these ubiquitous little deviceswhen properly integrated with some kind of mapping softwarecan provide endless entertainment and useful information. In dozens of illustrated examples, Cooke shows how GPS devices can be attached to just about anything (or anyone), including runners, race cars, sailboats, windsurfers, hockey players, wild animals, and household pets. He even describes how users can track themselves on a map in real time flying across the country! Cooke advocates that GPS technology in the classroom reinforces science, math, and geography curricula; provides groundwork for projectbased learning; and shows students that their schoolwork is important and relevant.

Geographic Information Systems and Science

Author: Paul Longley, Michael Goodchild, David Maguire, and David Rhind Publisher: John Wiley & Sons and ESRI Press, 2001, 480 pp. Description: This book explores many of the "real-world" applications of this rapidly evolving field and illuminates some of the growing commonalities between the concerns of business, government, and science. Designed for readers who are already familiar with GIS, this richly illustrated, full-colour book is aimed at those who need clear and succinct information about this fast-developing technology.

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop - Basics of ArcView, ArcEditor & ArcInfo - (Second Edition, updated for ArcGIS 9 Desktop)
Author: Tim Ormsby, Eileen Napoleon, Robert Burke, Carolyn Groessl, and Laura Feaster Publisher: ESRI Press, 2001, 552 pp. (CD Included) Description: Available now, Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop, Second Edition is a comprehensive update to this best-selling workbook. The second edition revises existing material and adds new exercises based on ArcGIS Desktop version 9, the latest release of the world's leading geographic information systems (GIS) software. Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop is a workbook for learning ArcGIS, the newest GIS technology from ESRI. The book aims to introduce the user to the three GIS products that comprise ArcGIS, ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo, as well as the core software that forms the building blocks of ArcGIS: ArcMap, ArcCatalog, and ArcToolbox. Richly detailed illustrations and step-by-step exercises teach basic GIS tasks, from mapmaking, to spatial analysis, to database creation.

Getting to Know ArcObjects

Author: Robert Burke Publisher: ESRI Press Description: Getting to Know ArcObjects teaches the basics of VBA programming, then progresses quickly to ArcObjects. Readers learn what ArcObjects are, use object model diagrams to find out what individual objects do, and program objects to execute specific GIS tasks. Getting to Know ArcObjects supports the selflearner and makes a practical lab manual for instructors in the classroom. Those who are new to programming, or just new to ArcObjects, will find this book to be the perfect starting place for getting the most out of ArcGIS and the objects on which it is built. CD-ROM includes the complete set of ArcObjects object model diagrams, spatial data used in the exercises, all code written in the exercises (which readers can adapt for their own projects), and results. Required software: ArcView 8.3, ArcEditor 8.3, or ArcInfo 8.3 software is required to complete the exercises in this workbook.

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A to Z GIS
Editors: Tasha Wade and Shelley Sommer Publisher: ESRI Press Description: With definitions written, developed, and contributed by more than 150 subject-matter experts, A to Z GIS: An Illustrated Dictionary of Geographic Information Systems is packed with the following features: More than 1,800 terms Nearly 400 full-color illustrations Seven encyclopedia-style appendix articles about annotation and labels, features, geometry, layers in ArcGIS software, map projections and coordinate systems, remote sensing, and topology A to Z GIS is an indispensable guide and companion for anyone involved in the expanding field of geographic information systems technology.

GIS and Land Records: The Parcel Data Model

Author: Nancy von Meyer Publisher: ESRI Press, 2004, 184 pp. Description: GIS and Land Records: The ArcGIS Parcel Data Model is the definitive book about the data model developed as a framework for land record information in an ArcGIS environment. It captures the collective experience gained from more than 20 years of managing parcel information using GIS. This book demonstrates how the data model supports real GIS work, including the update and maintenance of data content by tax assessors, planners, recorders, environmental mangers, public works officials, safety officials, and others. Data designers learn how parcel information within their own jurisdictions can be implemented in a geodatabase using the ArcGIS parcel data model. Parcel managers and GIS professionals learn how to move existing applications into a geodatabase. This book shows how the parcel data can be easily customized to satisfy different situations. In fact, the data model provides a quicker less-expensive solution to data migration, the longest and costliest part of a GIS project.

GIS For Everyone, Third Edition

Author: David Davis Publisher: ESRI Press 2003, 160 pp. Description: Now everyone can create smart maps for school, work, home, or community action, using a personal computer. Whether you're a student, businessperson, homemaker, or community activist, this book is your passport to the fascinating and useful world of geographic information and the software that brings it to your desktop, a geographic information system (GIS).

GIS for Health Organisations

Author: Laura Lang Publisher: ESRI Press, 2000, 112 pp Description: Health management is a rapidly developing field. In this book, you will see how physicians, public health officials, insurance providers, hospitals, epidemiologists, researchers, and HMO executives use GIS to focus resources to meet the needs of those in their care.

GIS for Landscape Architects

Author: Karen C. Hanna Publisher: ESRI Press, 1999, 120 pp. Description: Through actual examples, you will learn how landscape architects, land planners and designers now rely on GIS to create visual frameworks within which spatial data and information are gathered, interpreted, manipulated, and shared. From Karen Hanna, noted landscape architect and GIS pioneer.

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GIS for Water Management in Europe

Author: Mike Bedford Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, 148 pp. Description: On the European continent, nations already geographically unified are becoming even more closely aligned in other ways: administratively, politically, and economically. Nowhere are these alliances more clearly defined than in connection with the issue of freshwater resources in Europe. GIS for Water Management in Europe shows the many imaginative ways that European organizations, agencies, and governments are using GIS technology to bring unity to a diverse group of problems. Author Mike Bedford shows how drinking-water distribution, flood control, and pollution mitigation constitute only a few of the challenges facing Europeans that are being tackled with GIS-based analytical, visualization, and data management tools.

GIS in Public Policy: Using GIS for More Effective Government

Author: R.W. Greene Publisher: ESRI Press, 2000, 120 pp. Description: This book shows how policy makers and others on the front lines of public service, such as teachers, administrators, analysts, legislators, and police, are putting GIS to work. GIS is allowing them to distribute tax money more fairly, to protect life and property more effectively, and to serve urban and rural constituencies in new and more efficient ways. GIS in Public Policy vividly shows the very real benefits of this technology for anyone with an interest in, or influence over, the ways our institutions shape our lives.

GIS in Schools
Author: Richard Audet and Gail Ludwig Publisher: ESRI Press, 2000, 128 pp. Description: GIS In Schools documents the ways classrooms, and learning, are being transformed in elementary, middle, and high schools across North America. It includes case studies that show what can happen when students are given real-life problems to solve, along with the GIS technology to help solve them - new enthusiasm for learning, new dialogues between teachers and students, and new levels of interaction among schools and communities.

GIS In Telecommunications
Author: Lisa Godin Publisher: ESRI Press, 2001, 120 pages. Description: Global competition is forcing telecommunication companies to stretch their boundaries as never before, requiring efficiency and innovation in every aspect of the enterprise if they are to survive, if they are to prosper, and especially if they are to come out on top. The book walks the reader through a number of GIS based innovations by leading telecommunication companies, where some of the industries most daunting tasks have been simplified.

GIS, Spatial Analysis and Modeling

Author: Edited by David Maguire, Michael Batty and Michael Goodchild Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, pages. Description: GIS, Spatial Analysis and Modeling is an anthology of new papers from some of the leading thinkers and innovators in the GIS world. The text serves as a snapshot in time of the state of the art (circa 2005) in GIS-based spatial analysis and modeling software applications. Editors David Maguire, Micheal Batty, and Michael Goodchild show just how far geoanalytical methods and tools have progressed in recent years. The numerous real-world examples describe an interesting range of socioeconomic and environmental applications.

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GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9

Author: Wilpen Gorr and Kristen S. Kurland Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, 374 pages. Description: GIS Tutorial, a Workbook for ArcView 9 is a revolutionary new teaching tool designed with both self-study users and classroom students in mind. The book offers nine stepby-step, hands-on chapters for learning ArcView 9 software and was developed by Wilpen Gorr and Kristen Kurland and tested at the GIS labs at Carnegie Mellon University. This title is released by ESRI Press for the first time to the wider global GIS marketplace. Students use a proven hands-on approach that simulates how a GIS project would be developed in the real world. So-called Your Turn exercises included throughout the tutorials give students access to real data with a tangible, clearly-defined end product as the goal. A companion CD includes additional Challenge exercises for each tutorial chapter and integrative cases that cut across chapters. The book also includes a full working copy of ArcView software (good for 180 days from installation) and the sample data required to run the exercises.

GIS Worlds: Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures

Author: Ian Masser Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, 336 pages. Description: As the world's governments increasingly come to terms with the fact that geospatial technologies must be a central component of their national information systems, the need for standards and uniformly accepted ways of storing and sharing geographic information has never been greater. In GIS Worlds author Ian Masser, one of the world's leading thinkers on the subject, describes the emergence of the spatial data infrastructure (SDI) phenomenon and shows the relative diffusion and evolution of SDIs around the world. Masser explores the implementation of SDIs from a practical perspective and outlines a method of institution building for regional, continental, and global SDIs. This timely and important title promises to strengthen even further the need for intelligent governance and strong leadership in the GIS and spatial data communities.

Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling Support with GIS

Author: Compiled and edited by Dr. David Maidment and Dr. Dean Djokic, Publisher: ESRI Press, 2000, 232 pp. Description: The papers in this book were among those presented at the 1999 ESRI International User Conference on hydrologic and hydraulic water quantity modelling support using GIS. Although the models featured were developed for specific applications, the techniques presented apply to any hydrologic and hydraulic model that requires spatial input or that produces spatial output.

Integrating GIS with and the Global Positioning System

Author: Karen Steede-Terry Publisher: ESRI Press, 2000, 112 pp. Description: This is an introduction to the powerful synergy between GIS and GPS technologies. This book covers the basics of GPS what the components are, how they work in theory and in practice, how accuracy can be improved almost to the pinpoint and presents several case studies that illustrate some of the ways the power of GPS is being harnessed to the depth of GIS: accuracy in measurement and completeness of coverage

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Making Community Connections

Author: Lyman Orton and Noel Fritzinger Publisher: ESRI Press, 2003, 194 pp. Description: This book is designed to bring teams of teachers and their students together with community members to study a problem, a resource, a condition, or any matter of interest and importance to the community. The school work includes gathering and examining existing information, discovering new facts through field investigation, and mapping the resource using GIS/GPS tools. Exercises within the book provide a body of research to the community which can be used to address immediate concerns and help plan for the future. The materials in Making Community Connections have been constructed to provide a solid foundation and flexible framework for original projects created and developed by students, their teachers, and their communities, allowing explorations and investigations of places and problems of interest and concern to them.

Managing Natural resources with GIS

Author: Laura Lang Publisher: ESRI Press, 1998, 132 pp. Description: Find out how GIS technology helps people design solutions to such pressing challenges as wildfires, urban blight, air and water degradation, species endangerment, disaster mitigation, coastline erosion, and public education. The experiences of public and private organisations provide real-world examples.

Mapping the News: Case Studies in GIS and Journalism

Author: David Herzog Publisher: ESRI Press, 2003, 164 p Description: Mapping the News: Case Studies in GIS and Journalism shows how GIS and computerassisted reporting are revolutionizing the news business. Packed with full-color illustrations, maps, and other graphics that help describe the ten case studies, the book also contains an introduction to GIS and how it works. Two detailed appendixes can help journalists immediately get started with GIS and also learn how to acquire free data to aid in news gathering and information analysis. Taken together, the case-study examples and resources in Mapping the News make the volume an important guide for newsroom managers, journalists, and student journalists who want to enhance their reporting abilities and strengthen their competitive edge.

Marine Geography: GIS for the Ocean and Seas

Author: Edited by Joe Breman Publisher: ESRI Press, 2002, 224 pp. Description: Featuring real-world examples from ocean trenches, this collection of articles by leading researchers and marine biologists shows some of the many ways that GIS technology is contributing to our understanding of the underwater environment. From improving oil spill response and mapping marine biodiversity to protecting at-risk coastal areas and improving navigation safety in crowded travel corridors, this books shows how digital mapping and spatial analysis can serve as the integrated technology that allows various stakeholders to communicate in a common language. Written in a friendly magazine style suitable for a non-technical audience, this case study book makes an excellent companion to the more scientific Undersea with GIS also available from ESRI Australia.

Measuring Up: The Business Case for GIS

Author: Christopher Thomas and Milton Ospina Publisher: ESRI Press, 2004, 202 pp. Description: "Whether you work in the public or private sector, Measuring Up will help you gain insight about how intelligent geographic information systems?digital versions of geography?encapsulate our knowledge and provide a foundation to help us better serve our world by improving efficiencies, decision making, planning, accountability, and communication." (Jack Dangermond, ESRI President). Measuring Up presents 75 articles from 22 business sectors. They tell us not only what people around the globe are doing with GIS, but how these new business processes have improved communities and organizations

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Modelling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design

Author: Michael Zeiler Publisher: ESRI Press, 1999, 216 pp. Description: Modelling Our World is the comprehensive guide and reference to GIS data modelling in general, and to the geodatabase model in particular. It shows how to make the right decisions about modelling data decisions that will inform each aspect of a GIS project, from database design and data capture to spatial analysis and visual presentation.

Open Access: GIS in e-Government

Author: R.W. Greene Publisher: ESRI Press, 2001, 124 pages. Description: A collection of case studies examining the ways local, state, federal, and regional government agencies are making themselves available online. Electronic payment of taxes, a streamlined application process for permits, increased inclusiveness of community members in community planning, and enhanced emergency capability, are just a few of the ways government agencies are using GIS to bring new meaning and new depth to their entire e-Government enterprise.

Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History

Author: Edited by Anne Kelly Knowles Publisher: ESRI Press, 2002, 250 pp. Description: This pioneering book shows how GIS technology can illuminate the study of history. It encompasses a broad range of history, from the Greek and Roman eras to the Salem witch trials, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and the shifting human mosaic of 20th-century New York City. In each chapter, leading scholars explain how mapping and spatial analysis with GIS put geography at the heart of historical inquiry. Richly illustrated, Past Time, Past Place makes a vivid supplement to many courses in history, geography, sociology, anthropology, religious studies, and GIS. It will also fascinate arm-chair historians who read history with an atlas at their side.

Planning Support Systems: Integrating Geographic Information Systems, Models and Visualisation Tools
Author: Richard K. Brail and Richard E. Klosterman (Editors) Publisher: ESRI Press, 2001, 468 pages. Description: Planning Support Systems offers views of new possibilities in land use planning from the acknowledged experts in the field. The editors have assembled papers from colleagues working to expand understanding and applicability of a dozen of the most important aspects of computer-aided planning.

Remote Sensing for GIS Managers

Author: Stan Aronoff Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, 524 pages. Description: From satellite images of the ozone layer to radar readings of the ocean floor to high-resolution aerial photography, the use of remote-sensing technology as a primary data source for GIS is mushrooming. In Remote Sensing for GIS Mangers, author Stan Aronoff covers such topics as aerial photography, multispectral scanners, thermal infrared, radar, lidar, and sonar in ways that make sense for GIS professionals attempting to utilize this rich and increasingly affordable data source. The book is well illustrated and contains examples of a wide range of earth resource applications, such as agriculture, forestry, geology, meteorology, urban infrastructure, and wildlife management.

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Serving Maps on the Internet

Author: Christian Harder Publisher: ESRI Press, 1998, 144 pp. Description: Take an insiders look at how todays forward thinking organisations distribute mapbased information via the Internet. Case studies cover a range of applications for Internet Map server technology from ESRI. This book should interest anyone who wants to publish geospatial data on the World Wide Web.

Spatial Portals: Gateways to Geographic Information

Author: Winnie Tang and Jan Selwood Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, 196 pp. Description: The idea of a spatial portala new type of Web site designed to serve as a kind of "air traffic controller" for geographic information-is revolutionizing the way GIS professionals manage, find, share, and use knowledge, from the local level to the world stage. In Spatial Portals: Gateways to Geographic Information, authors Winnie Tang and Jan Selwood present a thorough overview of this evolving phenomenon and convincingly summarize the opportunities, developments, challenges, and issues that are now impacting the way today's GIS systems are being designed, developed, and managed.

System for Survival: GIS and Sustainable Development

Author: Allan Falconer and Joyce Foresman, Editors Publisher: ESRI Press, 2002, 122 pp. Category: Other Publications Description: Synthesising the vast amounts of data being collected about natural resources, population, health, education, public safety, and more - all within highly accurate and specific geographic contexts - GIS can help people assess and understand their community and environment, and change policy and practice at all levels, from the individual to the international. A System for Survival: GIS and Sustainable Development describes examples of how GIS has been crucial in many democratic governance and civil liberty programs, and serves to help make people more aware of how geographic technologies can play a creative and constructive role as we deal with the monumental challenges humanity faces.

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Thinking about GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers

Author: Roger Tomlinson Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, 328 pp. Description: The new paperback edition of this practical book for those charged with implementing a geographic information system now contains updated charts with year 20042005 numbers. Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers, by eminent GIS pioneer Roger Tomlinson is packed with planning wisdom from the man commonly referred to as the father of GIS, is the distillation of Tomlinsons wisdom gleaned from a career spent launching large-scale GIS implementations for clients around the globe. The book is targeted at two primary audiences: senior managers who oversee GIS and other information technologies in their organizations, and the more technical managers responsible for the actual implementation of these systems. By addressing the issues of concern to both audiences, the author gives both groups a common platform on which to conduct serious GIS planning.

Think Globally, Act Regionally: GIS and Data Visualization

for Social Science and Public Policy Research
Author: Richard LeGates Publisher: ESRI Press, 2005, pp. Description: In Think Globally, Act Regionally, author Richard LeGates argues that location and spatial relationships are important dimensions in all the real-world concerns of social scientists and public policy professionals, but social scientists and public policy professionals other than geographersoften neglect the spatial aspect of phenomena. This book encourages students to apply what they learn in solving problems. Combining real-world examples with hands-on GIS exercises, this volume will serve well in many social science and public policy courses.

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Transportation GIS
Author: Laura Lang Publisher: ESRI Press, 1999, 132 pp. Description: From monitoring rail systems and airplane noise levels to making bus routes more efficient and improving roads, this book describes how geographic information system software has emerged as the tool of choice for transportation planners.

Undersea with GIS

Author: Edited by Dawn Wright, Foreword by Sylvia Earle Publisher: ESRI Press, 2001, 240 pp. (CD Included) Description: This collection of essays from experts in marine biology, oceanography, aquatic resource management, and other fields, charts the ways in which GIS is beginning to help improve understanding of the oceans. Issues discussed include efforts to map the sea's floor, tracking the journeys of whales and tuna to preserve species in threatened areas, developing new kinds of nautical charts to give mariners an astonishing three-dimensional view of their progress through the water, and how GIS might be used to track the location of sunken vessels more efficiently. This book includes a companion CD-ROM containing an interactive view of this progress.

Zeroing In: GIS at Work in the Community

Author: Andy Mitchell Publisher: ESRI Press, 1997, 128 pp. Description: In 12 tales from the digital map age, this book shows how people use GIS in their daily jobs. The book shows GIS at work in every aspect of community life: schools, public safety, housing, economic growth, and more. An accessible and engaging introduction to GIS for anyone who deals with geographic information.

GIS for Environmental Management

Author: Robert Scally Publisher: ESRI Press, 2006 187 pp. Description: Complex environmental challenges increasingly demand sophisticated solutions. GIS for Environmental Management outlines the ways that GIS is fulfilling the need of humanity to better manage, protect, and preserve the environment.

GIS for the Urban Environment

Author: Juliana Maantay and John Ziegler Publisher: ESRI Press, 2006 620 pp. Description: GIS for the Urban Environment focuses on the use of GIS in urban planning and problem solving, and is aimed at both large and small cities and metropolitan areas. It will be of interest to all students and practitioners who want to learn more about how they might apply GIS to their daily practices, be they in urban planning, public health, urban environmental assessment, hazard and emergency management, geographical analysis, or sustainable community development.

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Mapping Global Cities GIS Methods in Urban Analysis

Author: Ayse Pamuk Publisher: ESRI Press, 2006 08 pp. Description: Spatial thinking and analysis are essential for intelligent urban policymaking in a globally connected world. Urban planners need to understand how cities are organized and how residential patterns are shaped as a result of population and employment changes. Otherwise, they risk designing urban plans and policies that are unrealistic and exclusionary. Geographic information systems (GIS) can be usefully applied by planners to new urban development challenges in global metropolitan regions and megacities, particularly those where rapid demographic changes, including immigration, have spurred massive growth.

Charting the Unknown How Computer Mapping at Harvard Became GIS

Author: Nick Chrisman Publisher: ESRI Press, 2006 228 pp. Description: This book explores some of the themes addressed by this fertile interdisciplinary collaboration. It includes some of the early computer mapping software and experimentation in cartography. It also introduces some of the spatial analysis and applications to environmental planning conducted at the Laboratory. It charts the cycles of expansion and decline as the creativity confronted challenges on many fronts. Around the edges are glimpses of some of the key figures involved in this exploration.

Smart Land-Use Analysis The LUCIS Model

Author: Margaret H Carr and Paul D Zwick Publisher: ESRI Press, 2007 277pp. Description: Smart Land-Use Analysis presents the land-use conflict identification strategy (LUCIS), a proven method for using geographic information system (GIS) technology to analyze land-use suitability, stakeholder preferences, and conflicts between competing land interests. In the hands of a knowledgeable analyst, LUCIS can provide a reliable projection as to which lands will remain in their current use and which lands will likely change in the future. With this information, various land-use scenarios can be considered by planners. For example, if development continues at its current rate and in the standard fashion, what will a land-use map for any region look like in 35 years? On the other hand, if development policies change, how will things look different?

Understanding Place GIS & Mapping Across the Curriculum.

Author: Sinton & Lund Publisher: ESRI Press, 2007 284pp. Description: GIS mapping software is not the educational revolution of the 21st century, but it is a powerful tool for teaching and learning. Each case study in this volume describes how an experienced instructor has used GIS in the service of his or her own teaching, within the traditions of a classical undergraduate education. Authors describe how they integrated mapping software into their syllabi, pursuing the learning goals of their discipline, striving to create a realistic learning environment in which students practice inquiry in their field. Chapters span the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

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Cartographic Relief Presentations

Author: Edward Imhof Publisher: ESRI Press, 2007 436pp. Description The renowned Swiss cartographer, Eduard Imhof, devoted his career to raising the standards of map design. In 1965, his breakthrough book published in German, Kartographische Gelandedarstellung, filled a huge void in cartographic instruction. The book was translated into English in 1982 as Cartographic Relief Presentation, expanding its influence and reasserting Imhof's mission to improve the precision and readability of maps. Cartographic Relief Presentation was an expensive book with a limited press run that made it a rare find in recent years. This new edition of Cartographic Relief Presentation was edited for clarity and consistency but preserves Imhof's insightful commentary and analytical style. Color maps, aerial photographs, and instructive illustrations are faithfully reproduced. The book offers guidelines for properly rendering terrain in maps of all types and scales, whether drawn by traditional means or with the aid of a computer. Cartographic Relief Presentation was among the essential mapping and graphical design books of the twentieth century. Its continuing relevance for the twenty-first century is assured with this publication.

Research and Theory in Advancing Spatial Data Infrastructure Concepts

Author: Harlan Onsrud Publisher: ESRI Press, 2007 306pp. Description Spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) have come a long way in the last two decades. In this timely scholarly volume, Harlan Onsrud, past president of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association, presents the latest research by renowned international experts and offers insights into possible directions in which SDIs may be headed. Firmly rooted in a broad societal context, the studies take technical, legal, economic, and institutional challenges head-on, with a strong emphasis on the needs of developing nations. The research analyzes models for planning, financing, and implementing SDI initiatives and assesses the extent to which established SDI projects in Australia, India, and the European Union are contributing to national economic competitiveness and social well-being. The book includes examples of how instrumental SDIs can be in disaster preparedness and poverty management, and it examines the integration of intellectual property rights within the framework of international SDI collaboration.

Thinking About GIS, Third Edition

Author: Roger Tomlinson Publisher: ESRI Press, 2007 254pp Description This book details a practical method for implementing a GIS developed by the man known as the father of GIS. Dr. Roger Tomlinson has distilled a lifetime of professional experience into a clear and structured format that guides readers step by step through planning for a geographic information system. A proven success over many years of use in public- and private-sector organizations, the Tomlinson model really works for the enterprise-wide project as well as the single-shop launch.

GIS Tutorial for Marketing

Author: Dr Fred L Miller Publisher: ESRI Press, 2007 436pp Description The value of geographic information system (GIS) technology for the business and marketing industry has never been greater than it is today. Small and large businesses alike are finding GIS to be an indispensable analysis tool in site selection, market area analysis, sales territory management, customer profiling, sales and service-call routing, and merchandising strategy development, to name just a few specific applications. But software training geared toward this burgeoning discipline is scarce. Filled with relevant, scenario-based, hands-on exercises, GIS Tutorial for Marketing is an important and timely resource for those who want to take business and marketing research to the next level. This ArcGIS software tutorial is designed to complement the standard curriculum of any undergraduate marketing program. Each chapter focuses on a marketing scenario that relates to a specific course in the marketing curriculum. The non-sequential nature of the chapters allows marketing students to develop their GIS skills as they progress through the marketing curriculum, whatever path they may take. This volume is also an excellent resource for professionals who want to use GIS in marketing applications. No previous GIS experience is requiredthis book will give beginning students or professionals the knowledge and experience required to gain a distinctive edge in planning marketing strategies and solving marketing problems. The book includes a DVD that contains a 180-day trial version of ArcGIS 9.2 and a data CD with tutorial datasets and samples of ArcGIS Business Analyst and Community Tapestry data.

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GIS Tutorial, Second Edition (Updated for 9.2)

Author: Wilpen L. Gorr and Kristen S. Kurland Publisher: ESRI Press, 2007 374pp Description Workbook for ArcView 9 Demands for effective GIS training are growing as more and more academic and professional disciplines begin to rely on this powerful technology to create maps, collect data, and perform advanced analysis. Designed for a broad audience, GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9, Second Edition, meets this growing demand by combining ArcGIS tutorials and self-study exercises that start with the basics and progress to more difficult functionality. Presented in a step-by-step format, the book can be adapted to your specific training needs, whether these involve teaching GIS to a classroom of graduate students or using the book for individual study. Within the tutorials, students will learn to use a range of GIS functionality, from creating maps and collecting data to using geo-processing tools and models for advanced analysis. The reader-friendly exercises make GIS Tutorial the perfect choice for beginners and more experienced users of GIS, regardless of their background.

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