Geographic Information Systems in Education

The Handbook of Geographic Information Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 540-556

  Kerski, Joseph J ^a  

^a ESRI   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided drafting (CAD); Data sets; Education; Geographic information systems; Global positioning systems (GPS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555176209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470690819.ch30     Document Type: Chapter

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