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With an accessible breadth of contentand intuitive A-Z organization, this new edition of the encyclopedia is an invaluable reference for newcomers to the field of GIS, as well as researchers, students, developers and professionals who are interested in exploring this new dynamic area. Praise For The First Edition: \"The focus here, however, is on the mathematical and computational aspects of GIS … . This is very welcome to those practitioners who have been less exposed to some of the mathematical and computational aspects of GIS. This is also very welcome to the researcher or graduate student within any of the interdisciplinary areas that use GIS. … I highly recommend it.\" (Pascal V. Calarco, ACM Computing Reviews, November, 2008) \"This single-volume reference work is a highly welcome … addition to the rapidly advancing field of geographic information systems. 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