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ab initio discussion, February 1, 2007
This review is from: Geospatial Data Infrastructure : Concepts, Cases, and Good Practice (Spatial Information Systems (Cloth)) (Hardcover)
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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