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A guide for geographic analysts, modelers, software engineers, and GIS professionals, this book discusses agent-based modeling, dynamic feedback and simulation modeling, as well as links between models and GIS software. This collection also presents a state-of-the-art understanding of applications based on environmental, atmospheric, hydrological, urban, social, health, and economic models.
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Contributors with hands-on experience of modeling within and linking to commercial GIS (geographic information systems) software explain the tools, techniques, methods, and models currently available to geographic analysts, modelers, software engineers, and GIS professionals. Though geographical modeling is now used in a number of fields, the issues dealt with here pivot around socioeconomic and environmental applications of geography itself. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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