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Learn Crime Analysis with ArcGIS: Second Edition Published

May 29, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

Esri Press recently released the second edition of GIS Tutorial for Crime Analysis.

New ArcGIS Pro Spatial Analysis Workbook

August 16, 2017By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

Esri Press has released Making Spatial Decisions Using ArcGIS Pro: A Workbook.

Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Project Workbook - ISBN: 978-1-58948-242-5, 378 pages, US$79.95

New GIS Workbook

July 1, 2011By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

Esri Press has released a new GIS tutorial book: Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Project Workbook, explains the methods, tools, and processes needed to apply full-scale GIS analysis to a spatially based problem. Readers are guided through a hypothetical project of selecting a suitable location for a park near the Los Angeles […]

Land use map from CARETS Final Report, 1979.

GIS From the Past: CARETS

In the early 1970s, a joint pilot project between NASA and the USGS sought to test out the feasibility of integrating data from Landsat and high-altitude aircraft sensors into a regional land use database.

Geospatial Climate Models Show How Fire Seasons Are Changing

Changing technologies, including new satellite systems, and better climate and fire modeling, including the integration of these tools and data capture methods, will likely mean improved fire modeling in the future.

Elements of a Map

Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships are visualized. Maps therefore become important documents. There are several key elements that should be included each time a map is created in order to aid the viewer in understanding the communications of that map and to document the source of […]

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