GIS Technologies and Their Environmental Applications (Hardcover)

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technologies are rapidly finding applications in many areas including environmental conservation, resource utilisation, cartography, urban planning, risk assessment, pollution control and transport management systems. Containing most of the papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Geographical Information Systems in the Next Millennium, this book addresses these and other applications. The primary aim of the conference, held in Udine, Italy in July 1998, was to review state of the art GIS technology and to monitor its development in various applied fields. The topics discussed are divided into eight sections: Environmental Management, Applications, Economic Development Management, Data Acquisition, Database Technology, Spatio Temporal Modelling, the WWW and Geographical Information, and GIS Systems.