Book: Application of Geographical Information System (GIS) in social science and humanities

This is the first book in Vietnam written on GIS application in the field of social sciences and humanities, with outstanding advantages: Presenting a combination of theory, practical guidance, and specific application through case studies; The content presented combines basic knowledge and advanced knowledge, suitable for learners who are researchers, lecturers and students in the humanities and social sciences.

Author: Asso Pro. Nguyen An Thinh, Dr. Nguyen Van Hong

Cover: Soft

Format: 16 x 24 cm

Number of pages: 262

Price: 89.000

Place of publication:Vietnam National University, Hanoi Publishing House

ISBN: 978-604-324-189-7

 

Geographical Information System – GIS integrates five key components: hardware, software, data, people, and methods that are designed effectively to receive, store, control, analyze, and display all geographic data. The first target of GIS is to deal with data systems in a geospatial environment

The development of GIS technology plays an important role in solving basic and advanced issues of the humanities and social science. Aspects of GIS application research are economics, human geography, tourism, sociology, ethnography, languages, and cultures. GIS is applied in some specific aspects such as archeology, history, political science, psychology. It is increasingly expanded to provide modern and accurate tools in spatial data analysis, database, and spatial modeling.

GIS software can be sorted into different categories: open source GIS software and exclusive or commercial GIS software in which MapInfo Professional® ("MapInfo Pro", or "MapInfo" or "Map") is a product of GIS Desktop software (Commercial software) designed by Pitney Bowes Software, USA. Besides, ArcGIS software is a GIS software product of ESRI Company which is considered top GIS system providing a comprehensive solution from collecting, entering data, editing, analyzing, and distributing information on the Internet to different levels such as personal geodatabase management or corporate databases

Based on GIS application in social science and humanities, practicing database analysis with two popular GIS software of Mapinfo and ArcGIS Desktop, the authors proposed GIS application in practice with two case studies of land price under market value and analysis of spatial access to socio-economic services. This is the first book written application of GIS in Vietnam in social science and humanities with prominent advantages including a presentation with theory, guiding practice and special application via case study; combination between basic knowledge with advanced knowledge designed to suit to learners who are maybe researchers, lecturers, and students of the sector of social science and humanities

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