Managing GIS 2
Featuring a wide variety of important topics from spatial data management to enterprise GIS, these eight articles are reprinted from a regular column in ArcNews written by members of URISA focusing on GIS management issues.

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The New Geographers
Inspiring stories about how new geographers are making a difference by applying GIS technology to the needs within their communities and the world.

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What is GIS
GIS is computer software that links geographic information (where things are) with descriptive information (what things are). Unlike a flat paper map, where what you see is what you get, GIS can present many layers of different information.

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Understanding Earth
For our ancestors, geographic knowledge was crucial for survival. For our own survival today, geographic knowledge plays an equally important role.

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Geomedicine: Geography and Personal Health
In this e-book, Bill Davenhall sets forth the notion that the emerging field of geomedicine will produce a new type of medical intelligence that will leverage national spatial data infrastructures to benefit personal health.

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The Ocean GIS Initiative
Marine professionals describe how they have used GIS for scientific exploration, ecosystem management, energy resource planning, and climate change analysis.

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Essays on Geography and GIS
Vol. 5 of Esri's popular collection of ArcNews articles written by academicians and scientists, and dealing with trends in geography, geospatial matters, and GIS.

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Changing Geography by Design: Selected Readings in GeoDesign
GeoDesign provides a design framework and supporting technology for professionals to leverage geographic information, resulting in designs that more closely follow natural systems.

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Climate Change is a Geographic Problem
GIS can help us gain a scientific understanding of Earth's systems at a truly global scale and make thoughtful, informed design decisions that ultimately allow humans and nature to coexist more harmoniously.

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