This book provides a clear conceptual framework, consistent terminology, reference cases, and recommended practices for design, implementation, and management of GII. It is meant for professionals in higher education, practitioners faced with the design, implementation, and maintenance of GII in municipalities, other levels of government and private sector enterprise, as well as the international financial institutions involved with underwriting GII projects.
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Richard Groot is a Professor at the International Institute for Aerospace Surveys and Earth Sciences in the Netherlands.
John Douglas McLaughlin is a Professor of Land Studies at the Faculty of Geodesy and Geomatics and Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, Canada
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Perhaps you might think of this book as an ab initio explanation of how to use geospatial data. Primarily written for the benefit of geographers and urban planners. Explaining how they can use this very rich source of data to annotate their designs and aid planning. Hence there is a section on what is termed foundation technologies. About such things as client-server architecture and various types of computer networks. All the way down to the different transmission media like coaxial cables or optical fibre. Then, the discussion goes onto the higher levels of perhaps having a federated database including what this means, of course.
More generally, you are shown how various types of geospatial data can be attached for objects that have a fixed location. Such data might include soil type, water level, humidity etc. Unsurprisingly, GPS gets a lot of attention by the text. Its ease of use, and the continuing fall in price of devices with GPS functionality, can transform a lot of geographic field applications. Related to this is a concomitant discussion of remote sensing, as a means of getting a massive amount of information at essentially one instance, of a given area.
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Over the last three decades, governments and the private sector in the industrial world have invested tens of billions of dollars in the development of geospatial information systems designed largely to serve specific communities (forestry, urban planning, land records management, business geographics, etc.) within a local, national, and even international framework. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
geospatial data technologies, data service centre, task congruency, land information network, geospatial data infrastructure, clearinghouse server, geospatial data sets, exploratory cartography, geographic information infrastructure, local metadata, geospatial information systems, global metadata, digital geospatial data, cultural desirability, land information management, independent standards bodies, geospatial databases, ellipsoidal heights, public sector information, geomatics engineering, terrain description, thematic data, point raster, reference ellipsoid, national mapping agencies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, North Carolina, Ordnance Survey, World Wide Web, Federal Geographic Data Committee, European Commission, Mapping Sciences Committee, Main Road, New Jersey, North America, David Rhind, Geospatial Data Service Centre, Canadian Conference, Geolnformation International, Property Attribute, United States, Department of Surveying Engineering, European Union, Geographic Information Corporation, Industries Inc, National Academy Press, National Research Council, John Wiley, National Mapping Division, Official Journal New!
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Over the last three decades, governments and the private sector in the industrial world have invested tens of billions of dollars in the development of geospatial information systems designed largely to serve specific communities (forestry, urban planning, land records management, business geographics, etc.) within a local, national, and even international framework. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
geospatial data technologies, data service centre, task congruency, land information network, geospatial data infrastructure, clearinghouse server, geospatial data sets, exploratory cartography, geographic information infrastructure, local metadata, geospatial information systems, global metadata, digital geospatial data, cultural desirability, land information management, independent standards bodies, geospatial databases, ellipsoidal heights, public sector information, geomatics engineering, terrain description, thematic data, point raster, reference ellipsoid, national mapping agencies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, North Carolina, Ordnance Survey, World Wide Web, Federal Geographic Data Committee, European Commission, Mapping Sciences Committee, Main Road, New Jersey, North America, David Rhind, Geospatial Data Service Centre, Canadian Conference, Geolnformation International, Property Attribute, United States, Department of Surveying Engineering, European Union, Geographic Information Corporation, Industries Inc, National Academy Press, National Research Council, John Wiley, National Mapping Division, Official Journal New!
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- European Union (Aspects of Britain) by Central Office of Information in Front Matter, page 11, and page 37
- Sharing Geographic Information by Harlan J. Onsrud on page 82, page 243, and page 275
- Out and About Walking Guide to Great Britain 09: South Wa Pb (Out & About Walking Guides) by Ordnance Survey in Front Matter, and page 256
- The Information Infrastructure (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) by Harvard Business Review on page 11, and page 274
- The Information Infrastructure by Harvard Business School Press on page 12, and page 267
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