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What is Geographical Information Science (GIScience)

Chapter 311
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
Discipline with its own research basis which has emerged from the cooperation of GIS and other areas of study, such as cartography, remote sensing, photogrammetry, global positioning systems and geography.
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Representation of Geographic Phenomena
Claudio E.C. Campelo (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) and Brandon Bennett (School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch311
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