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Article Excerpt
Integrated Geospatial Technologies: A Guide to G PS, GIS, and Data Logging by Jeff Thurston, Thomas Poilker, and J. Patrick Moore. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003. ISBN 0-471-24409-0, 266p. Hardcover $80.
The fields of geographical information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), remote sensing, surveying, cartography, and geographic visualization have all experienced dramatic changes in how geospatial data is now collected, manipulated, managed, and disseminated. Technology has been the driving force behind this transformation of what the authors define as geotechnologies (e.g. GIS, GPS. etc.) that has also brought new directions in spatial analyses and subsequent products (e.g., real-time telemetry data of animal animal habitats, sophisticated statistical spatial analysis, and modeling). It is now not enough to be competent in a single technology such as GIS, rather it is more imperative to become proficient in understanding the integration of geospatial data using a variety of geo-based technologies. Without this kind of integration, these collective fields cannot independently tackle the kinds of complex problems that our world faces today. Integrated Geospatial Technologies considers how these individual geospatial technologies blend together, their individual roles, and the kinds of uses to which they can be applied.
Given the tendency for most texts to focus on a single geospatial technology (e.g., remote sensing), Integrated Geospatial Technologies breaks from the mold by clearly encouraging the interdisciplinary approach. In the preface, the authors argue that in writing this text, the traditional single-subject approach was abandoned in favor of combining a variety of concepts and issues focused on a central topic for better illustration of the integrative nature of geospatial technologies. To achieve this end, the text provides copious examples of the synergistic nature of geo-based technologies and the multitude of enlightening information that can be generated. Moreover, the authors go to great length to minimize weighty theoretical discussions, and utilize a direct and concise writing style aimed towards geospatial professionals. This audience will greatly benefit from this text since it presents a constructive overview of today's integrative geospatial technologies.
The text includes nine chapters that concisely introduce a variety of topics dealing with the incorporation of geospatial technologies....
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