KEITH C. CLARKE

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DEPARTMENT OFGEOGRAPHY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA



 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

GETTING STARTED WITH 

GEOGRAPHIC
INFORMATION
SYSTEMS

BY K. C.CLARKE 

DR. KEITH C. CLARKE is a research cartographer and professor. He holds the B.A. degree with honours from Middlesex Polytechnic, London, England, and the M.A. and Ph. D. from the University of Michigan, specializing in Analytical Cartography. He joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1996. Dr. Clarke's most recent research has been on environmental simulation modeling, on modeling urban growth using cellular automata, on terrain mapping and analysis, and on the history of the CORONA remote sensing program. Dr. Clarke is the former North American Editor of the International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, and is series editor for the Prentice Hall Series in Geographic Information Science. He is the author of the textbooks, Analytical and Computer Cartography (Prentice Hall, 1995), Getting Started with GIS (1997) and about eighty book chapters, journal articles, and papers in the fields of cartography, remote sensing, and geographic information systems. In 1990 and 1991 Dr. Clarke was a NASA /American Society for Engineering Education Fellow at Stanford University, and in 1992 served as Science Advisor to the Office of Research, National Mapping Division of the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia. Since 1997, he has been the Santa Barbara Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis.

Otherwise, Dr. Clarke enjoys watching the New York Yankees, using his hot tub, and his family.
 

The background mosaic is Clarke's rendition of the world in the Azimuthal Equidistant Polar projection.
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