GIS Fundamentals, Applications and Implementations

Contents: Preface. 1. GIS--as a science and technology. 2. Applications of GIS and resource management. 3. GIS techniques and nature of data. 4. Database creation and analysis in GIS. 5. Errors in GIS and data output. 6. Advanced GIS applications--case studies. 7. Internet GIS. 8. Project implementation. 9. Glossary. 10. GIS resource banks. 11. Bibliography. Index.

"Geographic information systems or popularly known as GIS has been strengthening it's roots since the role of remote sensing has increased. It spreads it's branches to civil engineering, geosciences, forestry, disaster mitigation, ecology and environment and various other fields.

The book explains the concepts of GIS in a simple language. Topics like development of GIS, data structures, database concepts, map projections, requirement of hardware and software for implementing GIS, errors and removing errors, advanced analysis are a few chapters to be named which find place in this book.

Key features:

Covers fundamentals, applications and implementation techniques with special reference to Indian scenario.
Advanced topics like web GIS and GIS project management.
Complete information about all the GIS hardware and software requirements.
GIS resource bank and glossary, consisting of terminological words.
A multi-dimensional book useful for:
undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, policy makers and above all to a layman interested to know the basics of GIS."