Mission-Critical Mapping: GIS for Defense and Intelligence
Edited by Christopher Oxendine and Matt Artz
Mission-Critical Mapping: GIS for Defense and Intelligence is a collection of real-life stories that demonstrate how defense and intelligence organizations use GIS to improve operations and readiness, collect intelligence, collaborate, and provide humanitarian assistance. By using ArcGIS technology, these organizations can integrate data, perform analytics, and create a decision-support framework that encompasses all defense functions, improving decision-making in dynamic environments. The book includes a section that provides ideas, strategies, and tools to help readers jump-start the use of GIS in their own defense and intelligence operations. October 2024, 160 pp.; print ISBN: 9781589487994 and ebook ISBN: 9781589488007.
Spatial Data Science
By John P. Wilson
In Spatial Data Science, author John P. Wilson reveals how spatial data scientists and GIS practitioners can add big data to their workflows and use ArcGIS technology to support new spatial data science methods. Over six chapters, the book explains the growth of spatial data over the past few decades as well as cloud computing, data science, big data, and the Esri geospatial cloud. Anyone who is studying GIS or working in computer science, engineering, statistics, and information and library science would benefit from reading this book. November 2024, 220 pp.; print ISBN: 9781589486102 and ebook ISBN: 9781589486119.
