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Geographical Information Systems, Three Volume Set is a computer system used to capture, store, analyze and display information related to positions on the Earth’s surface.… Read more
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Geographical Information Systems, Three Volume Set is a computer system used to capture, store, analyze and display information related to positions on the Earth’s surface. It has the ability to show multiple types of information on multiple geographical locations in a single map, enabling users to assess patterns and relationships between different information points, a crucial component for multiple aspects of modern life and industry. This 3-volumes reference provides an up-to date account of this growing discipline through in-depth reviews authored by leading experts in the field.
VOLUME EDITORS
Thomas J. Cova
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Ming-Hsiang Tsou
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States
Georg Bareth
University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Chunqiao Song
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Yan Song
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Kai Cao
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Elisabete A. Silva
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Researchers, graduate students and professors in the field of GIS and related areas of research, from geography and environment to power and energy and information technology. Professionals in governmental departments and institutions, such as military groups and operations, taxation, town planning, natural disaster and emergency relief planning
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Professor Bo Huang is Professor and Director of the MSc Program in Geoinformation Science in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is also the Associate Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science.
Prior to this, he held faculty positions at the University of Calgary, Canada, and the National University of Singapore. He has been involved in numerous GIS projects focussing around spatio-temporal statistics for land cover, land use change modelling, image fusion for environmental monitoring, spatial optimization for sustainable urban and land use planning, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and web/wireless GIS for location-based service. Bo Huang has been the recipient of several awards in the last few years including Chang Jiang Scholars Chair Professorship from the Ministry of Education of China. He is Executive Editor of Annals of GIS and Asia-Pacific Editor of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science.