Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS and Remote Sensing: A Workbook

Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS and Remote Sensing is the first workbook to highlight the image processing capabilities inherent in ArcGIS software. Designed to complement remote sensing textbooks in an undergraduate curriculum, this workbook teaches students image processing and analysis skills with ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop. The book uses step-by-step instruction, guided activities that reinforce learned concepts, and independent projects that encourage students to solve problems using local data.

A DVD with Landsat imagery and other data accompanies the book along with access to ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop Advanced software (180-day use)

Kathryn Keranen, an instructor at James Madison University, has taught GIS and helped others learn to teach it for more than 20 years She co-authored (with Robert Kolvoord) the three-book Esri Press series: Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS (2008, 2012); Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS and Remote Sensing, (2014); and Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS and Lidar (2016).

Robert Kolvoord serves as dean of the College of Integrated Science and Engineering and as a professor of integrated science and technology at James Madison University. With Kathryn Keranen, he is a cofounder of the Geospatial Semester. Kolvoord also researches the impact of geospatial technologies on the spatial thinking skills of students.