Remote Sensing category: 317 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Over the past 20 years the costs of natural disasters have escalated significantly. The lives of over 800 million people have been disrupted and the number of catastrophes has nearly quadrupled. At present, the increasing global threat of natural disasters, in spite of our increased knowledge, is...
Oceanography from Space
Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
To all those sailors / Who dreamed before us / Of another way to sail the oceans. The dedication of this Volume is meant to recall, and honour, the bold pioneers of ocean exploration, ancient as well as modern. As a marine scientist, dealing with the oceans through the complex tools, ?lters and mechanisms...
Data Assimilation
Making Sense of Observations
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Data assimilation methods were largely developed for operational weather forecasting, but in recent years have been applied to an increasing range of earth science disciplines. This book will set out the theoretical basis of data assimilation with contributions by top international experts in the...
Integrated Ground-Based Observing Systems
Applications for Climate, Meteorology, and Civil Protection
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
The book is a collection of the lectures delivered during the 7th International Summer School on Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ISSAOS) titled “Integrated Ground-Based Observing Systems Applications for Climate, Meteorology, and Civil Protection”. Its aim is to contribute to the scientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Wildland fires are becoming one of the most critical environmental factors affecting a wide range of ecosystems worldwide. In Mediterranean ecosystems (including also South-Africa, California, parts of Chile and Australia), wildland fires are recurrent phenomena every summer, following the seasonal...
Small-Format Aerial Photography
Principles, Techniques and Geoscience Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
As the need for geographical data rapidly expands in the 21st century, so too do applications of small-format aerial photography for a wide range of scientific, commercial and governmental purposes. Small-format Aerial Photography (SFAP) presents basic and advanced principles and techniques with...
Spatial Simulation
Exploring Pattern and Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
A ground-up approach to explaining dynamic spatial modelling for an interdisciplinary audience.
Across broad areas of the environmental and social sciences, simulation models are an important way to study systems inaccessible to scientific experimental and observational methods, and also an...
by Chaowei Yang
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Combining GIS concepts and fundamental spatial thinking methodology with real programming examples, this book introduces popular Python-based tools and their application to solving real-world problems. It elucidates the programming constructs of Python with its high-level toolkits and demonstrates...
Cartography
Visualization of Spatial Data
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This revised and updated edition integrates the latest in modern technology with traditional cartographic principles. While providing a solid conceptual foundation in cartographic methodology, the text also introduces the very latest advances that have greatly influenced cartographic techniques. The...
Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning
Principles and Processing, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive discussion of topographic LiDAR principles, systems, data acquisition, and data processing techniques. This edition presents an introduction and summary of various LiDAR systems and their principles and addresses the...
Geo-information
Technologies, Applications and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Geomatics, the handling and processing of information and data about the Earth, is one geoscience discipline that has seen major changes in the last decade, as mapping and observation systems become ever more sensitive and sophisticated. This book is a unique and in-depth survey of the field, which...
Classics in Cartography
Reflections on influential articles from Cartographica
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Classics in Cartography provides an intellectually-driven reinterpretation of a selection of ten touchstone articles in the development of mapping scholarship over the last four decades. The ‘classics’ are drawn exclusively from the international peer-review journal Cartographica and are reprinted...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book is a selection of chapters evolved from papers on completed research submitted to GeoCart’2010 / the 1st ICA Regional Symposium on Cartography for Australasia and Oceania, held in Auckland, New Zealand, 1st -3rd September 2010. All of the chapters have been updated and revised thoroughly....
Abstract Machine
Humanities GIS
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
In Abstract Machine, author Charles Travis uses GIS technology to interpret, analyze, and visualize literary, historical, and philosophical texts. Travis's study shows how mapping language patterns, fictional landscapes, geographic spaces, and philosophical concepts helps support critical analysis....