A Path through Recent GIS Literature
Author(s): Sandra Lach Arlinghaus
Source: Geographical Review,
Vol. 86, No. 1, (Jan., 1996), pp. 101-107
Published by: American Geographical Society
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/215144
This article contains a
comparative review of nine books on geographical information systems.
The books are: Bringing Geographical
Information Systems into Business,
1994, by David J. Grimshaw; Managing
Geographic Information System
Projects, by William E. Huxhold and Allan G. Levinsohn; Managing
Geographic Information Systems, by Nancy J. Obermeyer and
Jeffrey K.
Pinto; Introduction to Disjunctive
Kriging and Non-linear
Geostatistics, by Jacques Rivoirard; Network and Discrete Location:
Models, Algorithms, and Applications, by Mark S. Daskin; Neural Nets:
Applications in Geography, edited by Bruce C. Hewitson and
Robert G.
Crane; Ground Truth: The Social
Implications of Geographic Information
Systems, edited by John Pickles; Thematic Mapping from Satellite
Imagery: A Guidebook, edited by Jean Denegre; and The AGI Source Book
for Geographic Information Systems 1995, edited by David R.
Green and
David Rix.
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