Remote Sensing category: 317 books
Thinking About GIS
Geographic Information System Planning for Managers
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers presents a planning model for designing data and technology systems that will meet any organization’s specific needs. Designed for two primary audiences, senior managers who oversee information technologies and technical specialists...
GIS Tutorial 2
Spatial Analysis Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
GIS Tutorial 2: Spatial Analysis Workbook provides hands-on exercises for intermediate-level GIS users to build problem-solving and analysis skills. A companion to the concepts in The Esri® Guide to GIS Analysis book series, GIS Tutorial 2 gives experience with various spatial analysis methods, including...
Thinking Big Data in Geography
New Regimes, New Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Thinking Big Data in Geography offers a practical state-of-the-field overview of big data as both a means and an object of research, with essays from prominent and emerging scholars such as Rob Kitchin, Renee Sieber, and Mark Graham. Part 1 explores how the advent of geoweb technologies and big data...
by Joseph Michael Pogodzinski, Richard M. Kos
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Economic Development and GIS shows why geographic information system (GIS) software is an essential tool for economic development planning and analysis. This book describes economic development policy problems then follows with methods and techniques to solve them with GIS. Featuring Esri Business Analyst...
Universal Ontology of Geographic Space
Semantic Enrichment for Spatial Data
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
A universal approach to the ontology of geographic space has already been, and is going to be, a comprehensive task for establishing more effective spatial models. The concept of a universal spatial ontology should be independent of location, culture, and time. It should be fundamental and universal...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
This book provides an introduction to HCI and usability aspects of Geographical Information Systems and Science. Its aim is to introduce the principles of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); to discuss the special usability aspects of GIS which designers and developers need to take into account when...
by Leonid Nadolinets, Eugene Levin, Daulet Akhmedov
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
With the advent of GPS/GNSS satellite navigation systems and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) surveying profession is nowadays facing its transformative stage. Written by a team of surveying experts, Surveyor’s Instruments and Technology gives surveying students and practitioners profound understanding...
Geographic Information Systems
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Developments in technologies have evolved in a much wider use of technology throughout science, government, and business; resulting in the expansion of geographic information systems. GIS is the academic study and practice of presenting geographical data through a system designed to capture, store, analyze,...
Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems
Applying the Technology to the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
The emphasis now placed on the concept of sediment cells as boundaries for coastal defence groups, and the development of SMPs, should help CPAs realise the importance of natural processes at the coast when designing defence and protection schemes. However, this will only be the case where defence...
The Map Reader
Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation
The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography...
Resources, Services and Risks
How Can Data Observatories Bridge The Science-Policy Divide in Environmental Governance?
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
This book discusses the role of observatories in supporting evidence-based decision-making. The book focuses on issues of data accessibility, monitoring frameworks and governance processes with regard to environmental resources – water, soil and waste. This publication highlights challenges related...
New Space Markets
Symposium Proceedings International Symposium 26–28 May 1997, Strasbourg, France
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Space is no longer the special, protected domain that it was in the past. Because of the importance of its practical applications, it is becoming integrated into the mainstream of economic activity.
Technology push is giving way to the assessment of market opportunities and demand pull. Funding from...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
A preface briefly describes LORAN, its history and potential use with pulsars on earth. I note the advantages of dead reckoning (inertial navigation) and introduce why Mobile Loran might have some advantages. Chapter 1 describes how Loran works. Chapter 2 discusses the advantages of dead reckoning...
by Wade Sarver
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Your Smart City Planning Guide for broadband, IOT, and solutions in technology. A handbook for learning more about smart city use cases, technology, and roll out.
Overview - Smart City Questions:
Do you know that the smart city is here now?
Most cities want to be a smart city...