GIS for Emergency Preparedness and Health Risk Reduction (NATO Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences 11) (2002. 340 S. 240 mm)

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now provide powerful tools for the capture, manipulation, integration, interrogation, modelling, analysis and visualisation of data - tools that are already used for policy support in a wide range of areas at almost all geographic and administrative levels.