A Primer of GIS : Fundamental Geographic and Cartographic Concepts

PART I Communication and Geographic Understanding Goals of Cartography and GI: Representation and Communication 3(31) Choices in How We Make Representations 34(19) GI and Cartography Issues 53(22) PART II Principles of GI and Cartography Projections 75(27) Locational and Coordinate Systems 102(25) Databases, Cartography, and Geographic Information 127(12) Surveying, GPS, Digitization 139(21) Remote Sensing 160(14) Positions, Networks, Fields, and Transformations 174(19) PART III Advanced Issues in GI and Cartography Cartographic Representation 193(28) Map Cultures, Misuses, and GI 221(14) Administration of Spaces 235(18) PART IV GI Analysis: Understanding Our World GI Analysis and GIS 253(18) Geostatistics 271(19) Futures of GIS 290(11) Index 301