Integrated Geospatial Technologies: A Guide to GPS, GIS, and Data Logging (Book Review‪)‬

Integrated Geospatial Technologies: A Guide to G PS, GIS, and Data Logging by Jeff Thurston, Thomas Poilker, and J. Patrick Moore. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003. ISBN 0-471-24409-0, 266p. Hardcover $80. The fields of geographical information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), remote sensing, surveying, cartography, and geographic visualization have all experienced dramatic changes in how geospatial data is now collected, manipulated, managed, and disseminated. Technology has been the driving force behind this transformation of what the authors define as geotechnologies (e.g. GIS, GPS. etc.) that has also brought new directions in spatial analyses and subsequent products (e.g., real-time telemetry data of animal animal habitats, sophisticated statistical spatial analysis, and modeling). It is now not enough to be competent in a single technology such as GIS, rather it is more imperative to become proficient in understanding the integration of geospatial data using a variety of geo-based technologies. Without this kind of integration, these collective fields cannot independently tackle the kinds of complex problems that our world faces today. Integrated Geospatial Technologies considers how these individual geospatial technologies blend together, their individual roles, and the kinds of uses to which they can be applied.