Intelligent GIS: Location Decisions and Strategic Planning [Paperback]

Mark Birkin (Author), Graham Clarke (Author), Martin P. Clarke (Author), Alan Wilson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1996 | ISBN-10: 0470236140 | ISBN-13: 978-0470236147 | Edition: 1

Spatial modelling and GIS are closely linked both in their uses by industry and as academic disciplines. Intelligent GIS sets out the principles and applications of spatial modelling and GIS and demonstrates its use in location decisions and strategic planning. The book shows how Intelligent GIS can be used to analyse the huge amount of data available to industry to help it make informed decisions. Intelligent GIS will be invaluable reading for:

• GIS professionals
• students of Geography, Business Studies, and Marketing
• business decision-makers

Intelligent GIS:

• demonstrates the importance of geographical thinking in business
• considers the type of data available and how it can be used
• shows how performance indicators can provide management information
• shows how the geographical modelling processes can aid policy-making
• illustrates the use of these methods in four service sectors: retailing, financial services, health care, and education
• provides examples drawn from academic research, and real-life case studies from throughout the world

The authors have international reputations in applied spatial analysis and GIS. They are well-known in the business community for the profitable use of intelligent GIS.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book describes the principles and applications of spatial modeling and GIS and demonstrates its use in location decisions and strategic planning. It shows how it can be used to analyze the huge amount of data available to industry to help researchers make informed decisions. Considers the type of data available and how it can be used. Shows how performance indicators can provide management information. Illustrates the use of these methods in four service sectors: retailing, financial services, health care, and education.

From the Back Cover

Spatial modelling and GIS are closely linked both in their uses by industry and as academic disciplines. Intelligent GIS sets out the principles and applications of spatial modelling and GIS and demonstrates its use in location decisions and strategic planning. The book shows how Intelligent GIS can be used to analyse the huge amount of data available to industry to help it make informed decisions. Intelligent GIS will be invaluable reading for:

• GIS professionals
• students of Geography, Business Studies, and Marketing
• business decision-makers

Intelligent GIS:

• demonstrates the importance of geographical thinking in business
• considers the type of data available and how it can be used
• shows how performance indicators can provide management information
• shows how the geographical modelling processes can aid policy-making
• illustrates the use of these methods in four service sectors: retailing, financial services, health care, and education
• provides examples drawn from academic research, and real-life case studies from throughout the world

The authors have international reputations in applied spatial analysis and GIS. They are well-known in the business community for the profitable use of intelligent GIS.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470236140
• ISBN-13: 978-0470236147
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,826,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent GIS: Location Decisions and Strategic Planning, April 2, 2001

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This review is from: Intelligent GIS: Location Decisions and Strategic Planning (Paperback)

This text, explore and discuss the geographic modeling and how it is used to improve planning by providing spatial information, and uses examples taken from real situations. The books offers a bief introduction about local decision and planning in organizations, it dicuss applications in retail planning, including a chapter that focuses on the automobile industry, health-care planning and analysis, urban and water-resource planning, and financial services. The book's uses range form regression techniques and choice models to spatial interaction models and market indicators, it may be useful to suplement a second or third level geography course to emphatize some real-word applications of geography theory. The bok is an extraordinary resourse and it is readable.