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GIS for Science
Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics, Volume 2
Series: GIS for Science
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Ideal for professional and citizen scientists, geography enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the application of GIS technology to scientific research and environmental issues.
GIS for Science, Volume 2: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analyticsshows readers how scientists working on the world's most pressing problems apply geographic information systems-GIS.
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Merging the rigour of the scientific method with the technologies of GIS
GIS for Science, Volume 2: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics brings to life a continuing collection of current, real-world examples of scientists using geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial data science to expand our understanding of the world. Co-edited by Esri Chief Scientist Dawn Wright and Esri Technology Writer and Information Designer Christian Harder and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond, these case studies are part of a global effort to find ways to sustain a liveable environment for all life on this planet.
The contributors of GIS for Science, Volume 2: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics represent a cross-section of scientists who employ data gathered from satellites, aircraft, ships, drones, and myriad other remote-sensing and on-site technologies. This collected data is brought to life with GIS and the broader realm of spatial data science to study a range of issues relevant to our understanding of planet Earth—including epidemiology in light of the COVID-19 pandemic; sustainable precision agriculture; predicting geological processes below the surface of the earth; leveraging GIS for near real-time disaster response, recovery, resilience, and reporting; and the latest innovations in monitoring air quality, among others.
Their stories also show in very practical terms how ArcGIS software and the ArcGIS Online cloud-based system work as a comprehensive geospatial platform to support research, collaboration, spatial analysis, and science communication across many settings and communities. A rich supplementary website—gisforscience.com—includes actual data along with additional maps, videos, web apps, story maps, workflows and snippets of computer code, including Python notebooks, for readers curious to learn more.
Written for professional scientists, the swelling ranks of citizen scientists, and anyone interested in science and geography, GIS for Science, Volume 2: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics offers wonderful examples of our impulse to dream, discover, and understand, as coupled with the rigour and discipline of the scientific method and the foundation of geography. See how scientists from a variety of disciplines are solving some of the world's most pressing problems using geographic information systems—GIS.
Series: GIS for Science
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Praised for its vivid imagery, clarity, and cutting-edge examples, the book is hailed as a modern manual for spatial analysis essential to understanding Earth's complexity. Experts applaud its integrative approach and state-of-the-art GIS techniques for addressing pressing environmental challenges and advancing geoscience.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781589485877
Publisher: ESRI Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 February 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.,U.S.
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Foreword by Jared Diamond
- Edited by Dawn J. Wright
- Edited by Christian Harder
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 254.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 232
About the Author
Esri Chief Scientist Dawn J. Wright is a professor of geography and oceanography at Oregon State University. In 2007, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education named her US Professor of the Year for the State of Oregon. She is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a new fellow of Stanford University's Aldo Leopold Leadership Program in science communication. Her research interests include geographic information science; ocean informatics and cyberinfrastructure; benthic terrain and habitat characterization; and the processing and interpretation of high-resolution bathymetry, video, and underwater photographic images. Wright received a PhD in physical geography and marine geology from the University of California, Santa Barbara; an MS in oceanography from Texas A&M University; and a BS with honors from Wheaton College in Illinois. She is also certified by the GIS Certification Institute as a GIS professional (GISP). She coauthored several books for Esri Press, including Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions, second edition (2016). Christian Harder is a technology writer and information designer at Esri. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books on GIS, including Understand GIS, The ArcGIS Book (Esri Press, 2017) and The ArcGIS Imagery Book (Esri Press, 2016).
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