Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS

Jochen Albrecht is Associate Professor, Deputy Department Chair, and GIS Certificate Adviser in the Department of Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York

Creating Digital Data Accessing Existing Data Handling Uncertainty Spatial Search Spatial Relationships Combining Spatial Data Location-Allocation Map Algebra Terrain Modeling Spatial Statistics Geocomputation Epilogue Four-dimensional Modeling

"Albrecht's slim volume is an important contribution to users and teachers of geographic information systems. It is a distillation of the core functions available in contemporary workstation GIS systems, functions likely to become common on Web mapping systems like Google Earth and MS Virtual Earth. Well written and up-to-date, this book is an excellent complement to the voluminous documentation provided by software and solutions vendors." -CHOICE -- E.J. Delaney * CHOICE * "Well written and up-to-date, this book is an excellent complement to the voluminous documentation provided by software and solutions vendors. A must-have for libraries, practitioners, and researchers using GIS." -- E.J. Delaney * Choice Magazine *