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Warviews: Visualizing and Animating Geographic Data on Civil War.

High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and Possible Mass Graves in Sheberghan, Afghanistan.

Programs
AAAS Science and Human Rights Program

ISFEREA - Geo-Spatial Information Analysis for Global Security and Stability

Data and Tools
Geographic Information Support Team. Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) of the University of Georgia

Global Land Cover Facility. University of Maryland Department of Geography

Armed Conflict Location and Event Data. Raleigh, Clionadh, Andrew Linke and Havard Hegre.

Geographic Information Systems and Science

Citation: Published by Wiley, March 2005.
URL: http://www.amazon.com/Geographic-Information-Systems-Science-Longley/dp/047087001X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263314292&sr=1-1

The first edition of Geographic Information Systems and Science has taken the GIS textbook market by storm, selling over 22,000 copies since publication. It is the most current, authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the field, that goes from fundamental principles to the big picture.

GISS 2e builds on the success of the first edition:

    * Completely revised with a new five part structure: Foundations; Principles; Techniques; Analysis; Management and Policy
    * All new personality boxes of current GIS practitioners
    * New chapters on Distributed GIS, Map Production, Geovisualization, Modeling, and Managing GIS
    * Specific coverage of current hot topics:
          o GIS and the New World Order
          o Security, health and well-Being
          o Digital differentiation in GIS consumption
          o The core organizing role of GIS in geography
          o The greening of GIS
          o Grand challenges of GIS science
          o Science and explanation

A new suite of instructor resources including a companion website with an on-line lab resource and personal student sullabus and a cehensive Instructor's Manual that maps the textbook to various disciplines and levels of courses.