Most geoscientists are aware of recent IT developments, but cannot spend time on obscure technicalities. Few have considered their implications for the science as a whole. Yet the information industry is moving fast: electronic delivery of hyperlinked multimedia; standards to support interdisciplinary and geographic integration; new models to represent and visualize our concepts, and control and manage our activities; plummeting costs that force the pace. To stay on course, the scientist needs a broad appreciation of the complex and profound interactions of geoscience and IT, not previously reviewed in a single work. This book brings together ideas from many sources that bear on the geoscience information system.
- ISBN10 0080436722
- ISBN13 9780080436722
- Publish Date 19 December 2000 (first published 1 January 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 November 2009
- Publish Country NL
- Publisher Elsevier Science & Technology
- Imprint Pergamon
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 148
- Language English