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Chrisman, N.R. (1997) Exploring Geographic Information Systems. John Wiley and Sons.

deMers, M.N. (1997) Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems. John Wiley and Sons.

Huxhold, W.E. (1991) An Introduction to Urban Information Systems. New York, OUP.

Laurini, R. and Thompson, D. (1992) Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems. London, Academy Press.

Maguire, D.J., Goodchild, M.F. and Rhind, D.W. (eds.) (1991) Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications. Avon, Longman Scientific and Technical.

Martin, D. (1991) Geographical Information Systems and their Socioeconomic Applications. London, Routledge.

Peuquet, D.J. and Marble, D.F. (eds.) (1990) Introductory Readings in Geographic Information Systems. London, Taylor and Francis.

Star, J. and Estes, J. (1990) Geographical Information Systems: An Introduction. Englewoods Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall.

Bernhardsen, T. (1992) Geographic Information Systems. Viak IT/Norwegian Mapping Authority, Arendal, Norway.

Bernhardsen, T. (1996) Geographic Information Systems. Halsted Press.

Bernhardsen, T. (1999) Geographic information systems : an introduction. Wiley, New York.

Burroughs, P.P. & McDonnel, R.A. 1998, Principles of GIS, Oxford University Press, pp. 299.

Berry, J.K. (1995) Beyond Mapping: Concepts, Algorithms and Issues in GIS. GIS World Books, Fort Collins, USA.

Burrough, P.A. (1986) Principles of Geographic Information Systems for Land Resource Assessment. Monographs on Soil and Resources Survey No. 12, Oxford Science Publications, New York.

Campbell J.B. (1983) Mapping the Land: aerial imagery for land use information. Resource Publications in Geography, Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C.

Curran, P.J. (1985) Principles of Remote Sensing. Longman Scientific and Technical Group, Essex, England.

Dana, P.H. (1997) Global Positioning System Overview. NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience,
URL: http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/giscc/units/u017/u017.html

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) (1996) Working with the ArcView Spatial Analyst.

Foote, K.E. and Lynch, M. (1995) Database Concepts. The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, The University of Colorado at Boulder. URL: http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/sources/sources_f.html

Goodchild, M. (1997) Rasters. NCGIA Core Curriculum in Geographic Information Science. Unit 055, URL: http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/giscc/units/u055/u055.html.

Harrison, B.A. and Jupp, D.B.L. (1989) Introduction to Remotely Sensed Data: Part One of the microBRIAN Resource Manual, CSIRO Publications, Melbourne.

Hobbs, R.J., Wallace, J.F. and Campbell, N.A. (1989) Classification of vegetation in the Western Australian wheatbelt using Landsat MSS data. Vegetatio 80, 91-105.

Hunter, G.J. (2000) Data Acquisition. Lecture Notes, 451-312 GIS and Remote Sensing for Environmental Science, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne.

Johnston, R.M. and Barson, M.M. (1990) An Assessment of the use of Remote Sensing Techniques in Land Degradation Studies. Bureau of Rural Resources, Bulletin No. 5, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

McGowan, E. (1998) Planning a digitising project. The NCGIA GIS Core Curriculum for Technical Programs. Unit 12. URL: http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/cctp

Piwowar, J.M. and LeDrew, E.F. (1995) Hypertemporal analysis of remotely sensed sea-ice data for climate change studies. Progress in Physical Geography 19(2), 216-242.

Quattrochi, D.A. and Pelletier, R.E. (1990) Remote sensing for analysis of landscapes: an introduction. In: Turner, M.G. and Gardner, R.H. (eds.) Quantitative Methods in Landscape Ecology: the analysis and interpretation of landscape heterogeneity. Springer-Verlag, New York, 51-76.

Richards, J.A. (1986) Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis: an introduction, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Schaeffer, J. (1998) Using GPS Data. The NCGIA GIS Core Curriculum for Technical Programs. Unit 24. URL: http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/cctp

Tomlin, C.D. (1990) Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modelling. Prentice Hall, New Jersey. Trimble Navigation Limited (2000) web site http://www.trimble.com/

Bishop, I. (1998) Analysis of Cell Neighbourhoods, lecture slides, University of Melbourne.

vector overlay processes

Burroughs, P.P. & McDonnel, R.A. (1998) Principles of GIS, Oxford University Press, pp. 162 -166.

Escobar, F. (1998) Vector Overlay Processes, Sample Theory, Lecture Notes. The University of Melbourne.

ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) (1990) PC Overlay Users Guide, ch.2.

Hunter, G.J. (1998) Boolean Operations, 451-620 Lecture Notes, The University of Melbourne.

Sikorski, R. (1969) Boolean Algebra, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp.3-13.

Star, J. & Estes, J. (1990), Geographic Information Systems An Introduction, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, pp. 147-148.

Tomlin, D. (1990) Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling, Prentice-Hall Inc., New Jersey, pp. xi-xiv, 14-22, 96-99, 119-122.

buffers

Burroughs, P.P. & McDonnel, R.A. (1998) Principles of GIS, Oxford University Press, pp. 299.

Escobar, F. (1998), Buffers, Sample Theory, Lecture Notes. The University of Melbourne.

Hunter, G.J. (1998) Boolean Operations, 451-620 Lecture Notes, The University of Melbourne.

raster analysis

Berry, J.K. (1995) Beyond Mapping: Concepts, Algorithms and Issues in GIS. GIS World Books, Fort Collins, USA.

Burrough, P.A. (1986) Principles of Geographic Information Systems for Land Resource Assessment. Monographs on Soil and Resources Survey No. 12, Oxford Science Publications, New York.

Curran, P. J. (1998) Principles of Remote Sensing, Longman Scientific and Technical, Essex.

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) (1996) Working with the ArcView Spatial Analyst.

Itami, R.M. and Rawlings, R.J. (1993) SAGE Introductory Guidebook. Digital Land Systems Research.

Tomlin, C.D. (1990) Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modelling. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey.

line generalisation algorithms

Hunter, G.J. (1998) 'Generalisation Techniques for Spatial Data', 451-620 Lecture Notes, The University of Melbourne.

McMaster, R.B. & Shea, S. (1992) Generalisation in Digital Cartography, The Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., pp.3, 71-91.

Burrough, P.A. (1986) Principles of Geographic Information Systems for Land Resource Assessment. Monographs on Soil and Resources Survey No. 12, Oxford Science Publications, New York.

Curran, P. J. (1998) Principles of Remote Sensing, Longman Scientific and Technical, Essex.

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) (1996) Working with the ArcView Spatial Analyst.

Fisher, P.F. (1996) Extending the applicability of viewsheds in landscape planning. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 62: 297-302.

Hadrian, D.R., Bishop, I.D. and Mitcheltree, R. (1988) Automated mapping of visual impacts in utility corridors. Landscape and Urban Planning, 16: 261-282.

Klinkenberg, B. (1990) Digital Elevation Models. National Centre for Geographic Information Analysis Unit 38. URL: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/courses/klink/gis.notes/ncgia/u38.html#UNIT38

 
 
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