Innovations in GIS 2

Abstract

Whither GIS? This book - the second in Taylor & Francis's new series - presents geographical information systems research at the cutting edge, deriving from presentations made to the second GIS Research UK Conference (GISRUK) Leicester, UK, 1994, a transdisciplinary focus meeting supported by the Association of Geographic Information (AGI) and the UK Regional Research Laboratories Initiative, and comprising contributions - all fully reviewed for publication - from leading experts from geography, computer science, land use and resources, environmental science, ecology, and urban and regional planning. The book is founded on the premise that GIS is "the province of no one discipline', and its mission is thus to foster communication, to demonstrate the commonality of problems, and to offer alternative solutions from a variety of sources. It focuses on data base issues - attributes, their location, their appropriate and rapid retrieval; spatial analysis - the statistical interrogation of spatial and aspatial attributes; decision-making - the interface between people and computational support; visualization - beyond the metaphor of the static, paper, map; and applications - extending the use and usefulness of GIS. -Publishers