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Geographic Information Analysis

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I bought this book to assist with me the geographic analysis of human rights violations in Zimbabwe. I have no prior experience or qualifications in geography or GIS, but have taken to the field through the necesssity of the work that I do. This book is a technical and mathematical introduction to geographical information analysis. It helps you understand the principles of eg kriging, or the different sorts of geographical data (point, line and polygon) and the kinds of analysis one can do with them. It does this fairly efficiently and it has certainly given me some ideas on possible future paths to take.
However, it is more of a technical guide to the methods than an ideas book. And although I did not understand everything on the first pass, I must say that I imagine more experienced or technical people would be rather disappointed at the depth of the content. It seems a bit simple, and is clearly aimed as an undergrad primer.

Easy to understand
Sympathetic to the beginner
They appear earnest in their attempt to educate by providing appendices on fundamentals of statistics and matrix maths
Other books failed to explain MAUP, spatial autocorrelation to me where this one did
Nice to read a book by cogent authors who make the subject enjoyable.

I think that this book presents the subject of spatial analyses in a very organized and logical manner. It also has an appendix that contains explanations of basic statistical and mathematical theories that are discussed in the book. This book is a great text book and a great reference book for GIS practitioners.

Geographic Information Analysis

This book explores and explains the theoretical underpinnings of Geographic information analysis that are easy to ignore when utilizing GIS to manipulate data. A good book for students in geography, GIS and GIS practicioners who are desireous of understanding the foundations upon which some functionalities in GIS software are built. An affordable resource book that is easy to understand.

I read this book because it was required for a graduate level environmental science course. Although it progresses nicely, it gets caught up in the research history pertaining to every model, process etc.. It also lacks application in many instances and guidance on how to conduct the actual analysis. I would recommend this text to be used in purely geography classes and not by separate disciplines that dabble in geography.

I've just read the first two chapters and i must say that they are SPECTACULAR!!!