Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems
The feel-good place to buy books
Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems by Keith Clarke
This text puts the high-tech field of geographic information systems within reach for students like you. It provides a basic, non-technical, and friendly introduction in one convenient source. It examines the basic GIS material that is traditionally found throughout the Geography curriculum—e.g., in Cartography, GIS spatial analysis, and quantitative methods. Clarke’s “learn-by-seeing” approach gives you clear, simple explanations, and an abundance of illustrations and photos.
Keith C. Clarke received his PhD and MA from the University of Michigan (Analytical Cartography, Geography), and his BA from Middlesex Polytechnic, London (Geography and Economics). He is professor of geography at UC Santa Barbara, where he runs the state-of-the-art GIS lab and regularly teaches GIS and intro cartography. Keith was Chair of the Department 2001 to 2006. He was elected President of CaGIS in 2001, was selected as UCGIS Educator of the Year in 2002, and is a recipient of the 2005 John Wesley Powell Award, the USGS's highest award for achievement. In 2006, he became a Fellow of the ACSM, the Chair of the NAS Mapping Sciences Committee, and was appointed to the National Geographic Committee on Research and Exploration; in 2007, Keith received a UK Leverhulme Trust award and Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship. He has worked on numerous funded research projects, including:
- UCIME: An NSF-funded project with the University of California at Santa Barbara, the United States Geological Survey and the Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop an integrated modeling environment (IME) for the cross-disciplinary study of a wide range of questions pertaining to urban change
- Project Gigaopolis: A USGS and NSF funded project that explores growing urban structure containing billions of people worldwide. It extends and refines the SLEUTH urban and land use change model enabling predictions at regional, continental and eventually global scales.
- Project CORONA: NSF funded project that included: The first photo taken from a satellite; The first recovery of an object from space and the first in mid-air; The first mapping of Earth from space; The first use of multiple re-entry vehicles; The first space program to fly 100 missions
- NGA Uncertainty Project: Funded by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency and NSF, the goal of this Uncertainty in Geospatial Information Representation, Analysis, and Decision Support project was to improve the mechanisms by which users of the defense geospatial information infrastructure are made aware of the presence of uncertainty in data, and its implications for decision-making
- IGERT in Interactive Digital Multimedia: An NSF funded integrative graduate education and research traineeship program. Clarke is the Pearson GIS series editor, and is the author of scores of GIS, Remote Sensing, and mapping articles and chapters for various journals and books. He is the author of Pearson's Getting Started with GIS 5e.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780131494985 |
| ISBN 10 | 0131494988 |
| Title | Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems |
| Author | Keith Clarke |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pearson Education (US) |
| Year published | 2010-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |