How this book works
The purpose of this book is to show you—the GIS
professional, app developer, web designer, or
virtually any other type of technologist—how to
become a GIS and imagery ace. Or put another
way, to become someone who is a smarter, more
skillful, and more powerful applier of image data
within a GIS. Imagery is suddenly a big deal, and
those who are adept at finding it, analyzing it, and
understanding what it actually means are going to
be in demand in the years ahead
Audience
There are several potential audiences for this book.
The first is the worldwide professional GIS and
mapping community, the people who work with
maps and geospatial data every day, in particular
those who wish to do more with imagery in their GIS
applications. If you’re a data scientist, cartographer,
part of a government agency staff, urban planner, or
other GIS professional, you already may be leveraging
the web and pushing geographic information out to
the public. You may already instinctively recognize the
inherent value of imagery as an amazing data capture
technology that integrates well with traditional vector based geospatial data.
Another audience includes people new to GIS with
an interest in things you can do with imagery—
people like amateur drone pilots flying missions
to map school campuses, real estate developers
planning redevelopment projects, or citizen
scientists and bloggers reporting about climate
change who are perhaps coming to GIS through an
interest in imagery.
Finally, this book will be of interest to people
who just love to explore the world and look
at fascinating pictures of the earth. For these “armchair” geographers and the rest, this
book and the electronic companion found at
TheArcGISImageryBook.com offer a wealth of
gorgeous and sometimes troubling images as
well as links to powerful imagery-based web apps
and maps that weave interesting stories about our
planet. The only prerequisite to benefit from this
book is a desire to better understand your world
through imagery and mapping, plus a roll-up-your sleeves attitude.
Learn by doing
This is a book that you do as well as read, and all
you really need is a personal computer with web
access. The adventure starts when you engage
yourself in the process by opening the links,
exploring maps and apps that others have made,
and then doing the lessons to create your own
maps and apps. These resources (over 200 maps,
apps, videos, and images in all) are hyperlinked at
TheArcGISImageryBook.com
This is a book about applying imagery in ArcGIS,
the web GIS platform, and is the second in a series
of Big Idea titles. If you’re new to GIS, you may
want to check out the first in the series, The ArcGIS
Book: 10 Big Ideas About Applying Geography
to Your World. While this volume is designed as a
stand-alone work, many readers will also find the
original book of interest.
A word on interactive content
When you see references in the text to interactive
web content, you will need to be in either the
web version or the interactive PDF version of this
book at www.thearcgisimagerybook.com
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