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Information and access to ArcGIS Online at Dartmouth College.
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Introductions to GIS

  • Defining GIS
  • Encyclopedias on GIS

Essentially, the merging of cartography, statistical analysis, and database technology (K.-T. Chang 2014). The critical functionalities of any GIS package are: data capture, storage, management, retrieval, analysis, and display. See Eldrandaly (2007) Applied GIS 3, 5, 4 for a really useful guide to the different types of GIS package, and their strengths and weaknesses. See C. P. Lo and A. Yeung (2007) on GIS and spatial problem-solving.

M. Cope and S. Elwood, eds (2009) explain that qualitative GIS aims to look at how individuals understand space and what the impacts of these understandings are for the production of socio-spatial relations. For an example, see Verd and Porcel (2011) Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research 13, 2 on the way qualitative GIS was used to study the social production of urban space. A geographic resources analysis support system is a free, open source GIS capable of handling raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphic data (K.-T. Chang 2014).

Mayhew, S. (2015). "Geographic information systems." In A Dictionary of Geography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 17 Feb. 2022

  • GIS Lounge
    GIS 101
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    From GISlounge.com which is an information portal for GIS.
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    What is GIS?
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    This web site is courtesy of Esri, the creator of the software ArcGIS and associated apps. They want you to use their software, so they do provide you reasons and instruction for using it.
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    A spatial system that creates, manages, analyzes, and maps all types of data.
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at the CDC
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    This page is from their working group on Geography and Geospatial Science. They use GIS in public health.
  • Cover artEncyclopedia of geographic information science by Karen Kemp, ed.
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781412913133
    Geographic information science (GIS) is an emerging field that combines aspects of many different disciplines. As a result, GIS literature is spread widely across the academic spectrum and the vocabulary is an amalgam of all of these fields. Often, given the specialized disciplinary orientations of authors, some expectation of foundational knowledge is assumed in much of the literature, making it difficult for readers from different disciplines to understand the full context of what they are reading. The Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science provides a condensed but rich resource about themes broadly across the field. It also provides details about the key foundations of GIS, no matter what their disciplinary origins, and is, therefore, an important resource for both academic and corporate libraries. ...
  • Cover artEncyclopedia of GIS by Shashi Shekhar; Hui Xiong, eds.
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780387308586
    The Encyclopedia of GIS provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide, contributed by experts and peer-reviewed for accuracy, and alphabetically arranged for convenient access. The entries explain key software and processes used by geographers and computational scientists. ...
  • Cover artInternational encyclopedia of geography: people, the Earth, environment, and technology by Douglas Richardson; Noel Castree; Michael F. Goodchild; Audrey Kobayashi; Weidong Liu; Richard A. Marston, eds.
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780470659632
    Representing the definitive reference work for this broad and dynamic field, The International Encyclopedia of Geography arises from an unprecedented collaboration between Wiley and the American Association of Geographers (AAG) to review and define the concepts, research, and techniques in geography and interrelated fields. The Encyclopedia assembles a truly global group of scholars for a comprehensive, authoritative overview of geography around the world.

Summer Programs at ESRI

ESRI offers 2 summer programs for interested undergraduate and graduate students. Click here for more information. The deadline is usually mid-March.

There are also other opportunities around the country. Click here for more information.

Regional Conferences

  • Conferences & Events
    Want to see what conferences are happening around geospatial information and processes? Here is a list of regional, national and international user conferences centered on ESRI.
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