AUTHOR
Dr.
Zhong-Ren Peng
Department of Urban Planning
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Phone: 414-229-5887
E-mail: zpeng@uwm.edu
Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou
Department
of Geography
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-4493
Phone: 619-594-0205
E-mail: mtsou@mail.sdsu.edu
PUBLISHER
John
Wiley and Son Inc.ey
and Son Inc.
This Book will be Available in March, 2003.
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Intenet GIS: Distributed Geographic Information Services, authored by Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng and Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou, is a complete text book that guilds the readers through the newly development in the field of geographic information science along with the popularity of the Internet. Dr. Goodchild gaves highly evaluation of the book. In his foreword to the book, he said:
A text on the theories
of
distributing and processing
geographic information
via World Wide Web
A guild to
cutting-edge technologies on maintream GIS, destop GIS, Internet GIS and
mobile GIS
A reference to
the updated applications and future developing trend
in Internet GIS
With more and more geographic information produced in the digital format, more and more necessities have risen to promote the availability and accessiblity of the spatial information thus to enhance data interchanging and sharing within the agency and between the agencies. To those who want to explore the ideas behind the Internet GIS, this book presents a thorough discussion on the theories involved and related.
Since the advent of geographic information system in 1980s, GIS has been evloved quickly from desktop GIS to mobile GIS taking great advatanges of the quick-developing technolgoies in multiple disciplines, such as computer science, telecommunications, etc. This book guilds you through the development of GIS, comparing and contrasting the similaries and differentials among those GISs based on differnt technolgoies.