GIS for Earth Surface Systems: analysis and modelling of the natural environment. From: The Geographical Journal | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: Lane, Stuart | COPYRIGHT 2002 Royal Geographical Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

GIS for Earth Surface Systems: analysis and modelling of the natural environment. Edited by RICHARD DIKAU and HELMUT SAURER

Berlin: Gebruder Borntraeger, 1999, 197 pp. DM 68.00 ISBN 3 443 01041 5

This book is a novel and useful attempt to address some difficult questions associated with the use of GIS in physical geography. At the core of the issue is a basic contradiction. On the one hand, commercially-available GIS software and GIS-based undergraduate course...