Intelligent GIS: Location Decisions and Strategic Planning

by M. Birkin, Alan G. Wilson, M. Clarke

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 189976125X
• ISBN13: 9781899761258
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Geoinformation International
• Length: 292 Pages

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Intelligent GIS: Location Decisions and Strategic Planning

This text, explore and discuss the geographic modeling and how it is used to improve planning by providing spatial information, and uses examples taken from real situations. The books offers a bief introduction about local decision and planning in organizations, it dicuss applications in retail planning, including a chapter that focuses on the automobile industry, health-care planning and analysis, urban and water-resource planning, and financial services. The book's uses range form regression techniques and choice models to spatial interaction models and market indicators, it may be useful to suplement a second or third level geography course to emphatize some real-word applications of geography theory. The bok is an extraordinary resourse and it is readable.