Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends

Download or read book Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends written by Albert, Donald P. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The availability of geographically referenced data, the proliferation of geospatial technologies, and advances in spatial analytics have been a boom to applied geographers.Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends is a resource for private and public sector applied geographers engaged as geospatial technicians, analysts, scientists, and managers. It includes chapters that highlight the use of geospatial technologies to explore applied geographic issues and problems; studies from economic geography, urban geography, population geography, medical geography, political geography, geography of education, geography of crime, and transportation geography are considered.