Summary

Innovative teaching tools, the books in the Modules in Environmental Science series allow instructors to streamline texts to their coursework, picking and choosing topics of immediate interest. The newest volume in the series focuses on using GIS techniques in environmental science. Discussion includes GIS's methods of representation, its depiction of environmental properties, its representation of topography, and its analysis of environmental processes in spatial contexts. The book also details statistical methods used with spatial data, aspects of scale that influence accuracy and analysis, and the future of environmental GIS. Here is a thorough, reader-friendly look at current GIS techniques.