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M a k i n g E ve r y t h i n g E a s i e r !

G I S

Learn to:

• Use GIS technology as it applies to

your business

• Retrieve, analyze, and interpret

geographic data

• Recognize geographic patterns and

distributions

• Design and implement a GIS

Michael N. DeMers

Associate Professor of Geography,

New Mexico State University

GIS

FOR

DUMmIES

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by Michael N. DeMers

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About the Author

Michael DeMers is an Associate Professor of Geography at New Mexico

State University and has been teaching GIS-related courses since 1983. He is

the author of Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (4th Edition),

which has been translated into both Russian and simple Chinese, and GIS

Modeling in Raster , currently being translated into Arabic.

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