New Book - “Why where Matters: Understanding and profiting from GPS, GIS, and Remote Sensing”

By Stan Aronoff and co-authored with Dr. Bob Ryerson entitled “Why where Matters: Understanding and profiting from GPS, GIS, and Remote Sensing”. This book is a less technical book addressed to the business and public policy communities and is also written for the general reader with an interest in how the new geospatial technologies including GPS, GIS, and Remote Sensing are changing the way we live and work and how to benefit from them. You can view the website for the book at www.GeoEconomy.com where you can view summaries of the book chapters, testimonials from former Deputy Prime Minister John Manley as well as distinguished professionals in the field, and view the first few pages of each chapter. The book is richly illustrated in full colour. 
 

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