Geographical information systems (GIS) are computer-based systems for the collection, storage and presentation of spatial information. This book on geographic information management is concerned with how we think about developing geographic information systems (GIS) applications. The book centres on five key themes: spatial and analytical techniques; data integration; area transformation; error propagation and the design of user interfaces. Potential applications of GIS are reviewed including environmental monitoring and natural and technical hazard management. The book contains 12 commissioned contributions from specialists drawn from the findings of the Regional Research Library Initiative funded by Britain's Economic and Social Research Council. The issues discussed in this book, whether methodological or in application fields, are intended to have a bearing on how we collect and handle geographic data. They raise questions of standards, such as spatial units, definitiions of attributes, organizational issues where data are treated as a corporate resource and the technical knowledge of staff and decision-takers. It is a wide field and it is a field which will become increasingly important as the tools themselves, the GIS's, become cheaper and more widely used. The book is aimed at all users of GIS, including students of geography, surveying, town planning and real estate management as well as local authority planning officers and central government departments.

Handling Geographical Information: Methodology and Potential Applications

Masser, Ian

Reference

Longman Scientific and Technical

Science & Math

Blakemore, Michael

Earth Sciences

Longman Pub. Group

In describing the emergence of the spatial data infrastructure (SDI) phenomenon, this book covers the diffusion and evolution of SDIs around the world, and indicates the countries in which SDIs are far along, and those in which more work is needed. The implementation of SDIs from a practical perspective and a method of institution building for regional, continental, and global SDIs is outlined. This guide offers recommendations about how SDI stakeholders around the world can leverage the work already done and maintain the momentum that is currently driving the global SDI phenomenon.

GIS Worlds: Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures

Travel

Esri Press

Written by one of the world's leading experts on spatial data infrastructures (SDIs), this book explores existing European SDIs and the efforts of the European Union to create a framework for a multinational Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) in order to exploit the many opportunities being created by modern geographic information technologies. The institutional and decision-making context within which SDIs must be developed requires partnerships between the public and private sectors, and concerted government action will play a key role in helping INSPIRE oversome political and institutional barriers. The author discusses the steps needed to create a legal framework for the wide-ranging project and identifies key strategic issues for future SDI development.

Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures

Computers & Technology

Crompvoets, Joep

Networking & Cloud Computing

The second edition of Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures explores the efforts of the European Union to create a framework for a multinational infrastructure for spatial information in Europe (INSPIRE); exploit the myriad opportunities created by modern GIS technologies; While offering an overview of the innovative activities being performed by public and private sectors to comply with the INSPIRE Directive, the book explains the rationale and the processes involved in SDI development and implementation.

SDI expert Ian Masser provides a practical introduction to the tasks involved in building a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) and makes clear how Europeans are taking advantage of geographic information technologies to help their citizens have quick access to location-based information. He also illuminates the critical collaboration that is necessary between public and private agencies to develop the ""infrastructure for spatial information in Europe"" (INSPIRE) the as well as the partnerships built between public and private sectors than enable sharing information and better decision-making. Europeans are building spatial data infrastructures (SDI) to create a multinational system of sharing information throughout the European Union and this book shows how.

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Handling Geographical Information: Methodology and Potential Applications

Handling Geographical Information: Methodology and Potential Applications

GIS Worlds: Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures

Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures

Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures

Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures