Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems

Designed to make the complexity of this rapidly-growing high-tech field accessible to beginning students, this text provides a basic, non-technical and student-friendly introduction to GIS. The book clearly links theory and practice, and helps apply the material to the real world by providing interviews with practising GIS professionals. It features simple explanations, many illustrations and photographs, extensive chapter-end study aids, and generic laboratory assignments for use with any GIS software.