The ideas and techniques of virtual reality are now being made available for the creation of artificial or virtual geographies (a virtual geography refers to the creation of artificial geographies for use in research and teaching, using ideas and techniques from the field of virtual reality - VR). Such virtual geographies are currently being constructed and used at a number of sites and include virtual cities, landscape visualization, visualising past and future geographies, visualising abstract concepts and taking people on virtual field courses. This text covers through the window VR...

This text presents the latest information on incorporating spatial analysis tools into GIS, and includes concepts and applications from both the environmental and socio-economic sciences.