Geographic Information System: Management and Technology Perspectives

by Rajul Gajendra Joshi, Sarita Seshagiri

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The ingenuity of mankind lies in integrating science and technology. One offspring of the human ingenuity is GIS, where geography, technology, management science and information come to play for commercial purpose. Geographic information system is a computer based mapping and analysis tool that captures spatial data and enables its storage, retrieval, manipulation and analysis. It is a tool that draws heavily on geography to represent the real world in the form of a computerized model. GIS gives access to intelligent information by linking location to the inputs. For example, it can locate people from addresses or street numbers from a network. Geographical information system is a small but significant stride in the knowledge economy, where information is the lifeline. This information revolution is mutely changing the tricks of economic, socio-cultural and political scene. To keep pace with this revolution individual and the organizations need to be competitive and responsive. Information access bestows greater power to both organization and individual to sustain this information revolution. This book on GIS is divided into three sections. The first section "Introduction and Management Perspective" introduces the concept of GIS, the second section "GIS Technology Perspective" provides the technological dimension of GIS, various models and architecture. The business applications of GIS is discussed in the third section of the book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rajul Gajendra Joshi

Rajul Gajendra Joshi holds and MBA in business information technology from University of Technology, Sydney. She was working as a Faculty Associated at Icfai Business School Research Centre, Banglore Prior to joining Icfai she worked in India with IISC's Centre for Scientific adn Industrial Consulting and in Australia with a retail firm. Presently, she is a Faculty member at the MIT School of Government and School of Business, Pune, India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sarita Seshagiri

Sarita Seshagiri holds M.A. and M.Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She also holds a Ph.D. from National University of Singapore, Singapore. She worked as a Consulting Editor at Icfai Business School Research Centre, Bangalore. She has about three years of experience in Social Anthropology studies on the IT industry and cross cultural issues. Presently she is working as a Research Consultant at Motorola Labs, Bangalore.