The history of Geographic Information Systems : perspectives from the pioneers / Timothy W. Foresman, editor.
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Upper Saddle River, NJ :
Prentice Hall PTR,
©1998.
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| Series: | Prentice Hall series in geographic information science.
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Table of Contents:
- GIS early years and the threads of evolution
- The Canada geographic information system
- Academic origins of GIS
- Topology and TIGER : the Census Bureau's contribution
- Raster based GIS
- Investments in personal computing
- Land information systems : development of multipurpose parcel-based systems
- AM/FM entry : 25-year history
- Remote sensing and GIS in agriculture and forestry-the early years
- Development of remote sensing digital image processing and raster GIS
- GIS development in the Department of Interior
- GIS technology takes root in the Department of Defense
- A quarter century of GIS at Oak Bridge National Laboratory
- State and local government GIS initiatives
- The incubation of GIS in Europe
- The development of GIS in Australia : from infancy towards maturity
- Canada today
- International application of GIS
- What next? Reflections from the middle of the growth curve.