LibGuides: Urban Planning and Design: Mapping Resources

About GIS

Welcome to the guide for GIS!

Geographic Information System (GIS) "integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. (ESRI)"

GIS : Introduction
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What is GIS?
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a cross-disciplinary tool for viewing and analyzing information with a spatial component. Working with superimposed maps and data in GIS brings a new perspective to fields including marketing, health and emergency services, agriculture, archaeology, environmental science, energy and more. Described by Esri, a GIS software company, in the resource page What is GIS?, "GIS reveals deeper insights into data, such as patterns, relationships, and situations—helping users make smarter decisions".

Urban Planning and Design

Geosciences books

Plate Tectonics

Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Geostatistical Modeling and Kriging

Landslide Risk Assessment

Essential Earth Imaging for GIS

About GIS