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The history of geographic information systems

perspectives from the pioneers

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"The History of Geographic Information Systems represents the first authoritative review on the evolution of geospatial technology.".

"This collection of original works provides both the expert and novice alike with a comprehensible appreciation of the historical events and pioneers responsible for today's GIS technology and applications. These authors represent key individuals who helped lead the development of GIS from the days of punch card computers of the early 1960s to the age of the Internet and World Wide Web.

These authors' contributions helped bring to national, state, and federal agencies the powerful new suite of geospatial tools for issues ranging from land use management to population enumeration."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Prentice Hall PTR
Language
English
Pages
397

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Table of Contents

GIS early years and the threads of evolution
The Canada geographic information system
Academic origins of GIS
Topology and TIGER : the Census Bureau's contribution
Raster based GIS
Investments in personal computing
Land information systems : development of multipurpose parcel-based systems
AM/FM entry : 25-year history
Remote sensing and GIS in agriculture and forestry-the early years
Development of remote sensing digital image processing and raster GIS
GIS development in the Department of Interior
GIS technology takes root in the Department of Defense
A quarter century of GIS at Oak Bridge National Laboratory
State and local government GIS initiatives
The incubation of GIS in Europe
The development of GIS in Australia : from infancy towards maturity
Canada today
International application of GIS
What next? Reflections from the middle of the growth curve.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Upper Saddle River, NJ
Series
Prentice Hall series in geographic information science

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
910/.285
Library of Congress
G70.212 .H57 1998, G70.212.H57 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 397 p. :
Number of pages
397

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL411464M
Internet Archive
historyofgeograp0000unse_n9b4
ISBN 10
0138621454
LCCN
98113380
OCLC/WorldCat
38176619
LibraryThing
9233262
Goodreads
3868831

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19018322W

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