Synopses & Reviews
Updated for ArcGIS Desktop 10, GIS Tutorial 2: Spatial Analysis Workbook offers hands-on exercises to help GIS users at the intermediate level continue to build problem-solving and analysis skills. Inspired by the ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis book series, GIS Tutorial 2 provides a system for GIS users to develop proficiency in various spatial analysis methods, including location analysis; change over time, location, and value comparisons; geographic distribution; pattern analysis; and cluster identification. Whether used in combination with the ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis books or by itself, GIS Tutorial 2 is the perfect tool for anyone who is ready to take their knowledge of GIS to the next level. A DVD of data for working throung the exercises and a fully functioning 180-day trial version of ArcGIS Desktop 10 software on DVD are included.
Synopsis
A guide for geographic analysts, modelers, software engineers, and GIS professionals, this book discusses agent-based modeling, dynamic feedback and simulation modeling, as well as links between models and GIS software. This collection also presents a state-of-the-art understanding of applications based on environmental, atmospheric, hydrological, urban, social, health, and economic models.
About the Author
ESRI, Redlands, California.Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. He was Editor of Geographical Analysis between 1987 and 1990 and has served as Chair of the GIS Specialty Group of the Association of
American Geographers. Dr. Bradley O. Parks is GIS Coordinator for Great Lakes Research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Large Lakes Research Station, Grosse Ile, MI. Dr. Louuis T. Steyaert is a research physical scientist within the National Mapping Division of the U.S. Geological
Survey.
Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning and Director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London.