The Limits Of Simplicity: Toward Geocomputational Honesty In Urban Modeling
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Biography Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Director (Santa Barbara) of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. Author of three books and about 80 articles in GIS, cartography and remote sensing. Former President of the Cartographic and Geographic Information Society. Only person to have given two Geocomputation keynote lectures.
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