A Primer of GIS

Second Edition
Fundamental Geographic and Cartographic Concepts

Francis Harvey

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I. Your World and Geographic Information Technology

1. Goals of Cartography and GI: Representation and Communication

2. Choices in How We Make Representations

3. GI and Cartography Issues

4. The Many Uses of GIS with Case Examples

5. Projections

II. The Functions and Methods of GIS

6. Locational and Coordinate Systems

7. Databases, Cartography, and Geographic Information

8. Surveying, GPS, Digitization

9. Remote Sensing

10. Locations and Fields: Discrete and Nondiscrete Geographic Information

III. Techniques and Practices

11. Cartographic Representation

12. Map Cultures, Misuses, and GI

13. Administration of Spaces

14. Online Mapping and Geocoded Worlds

IV. Fundamentals of Geographic Information Analysis: Understanding the World

15. GI Analysis and GIS

16. Geospatial Statistics

17. Considering the Past and Future of GIS