Understanding Earth
For our ancestors, geographic knowledge was crucial for survival. For our own survival today, geographic knowledge plays an equally important role.
GIS for the Oceans
Prof. Dawn Wright introduces the grand challenges in marine science and discusses how GIS can help meet the challenges. A series of case studies illustrate how GIS is already being successfully used in these areas.
Essays on Geography and GIS
Vol. 3 of Esri's popular collection of ArcNews articles written by academicians and scientists, and dealing with trends in geography, geospatial matters, and GIS.
Geomedicine: Can Geographic Information Make Me Healthy?
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.
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.
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.
Managing GIS
Featuring a wide variety of important topics from spatial data management to enterprise GIS, these 14 articles are reprinted from a regular column in ArcNews written by members of URISA focusing on GIS management issues.