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  • Advances in Digital Terrain Analysisby Qiming Zhou; Brian Lees; Guo-An Tang

    Springer 2008; US$ 189.99

    Terrain analysis has been an active study field for years and attracted research studies from geographers, surveyors, engineers and computer scientists. With the rapid growth of Geographical Information System (GIS) technology, particularly the establishment of high resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEM) at national level, the challenge is now focused... more...

  • Advances in Mobile Mapping Technologyby C. Vincent Tao; Jonathan Li

    Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 99.95

    With the increasing availability of low-cost and portable sensors, mobile mapping has become more dynamic, and even pervasive. The book addresses a wide variety of research issues in the mobile mapping community, ranging from system development to sens more...

  • Rethinking Mapsby Martin Dodge; Rob Kitchin; Chris Perkins

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 158.00

    Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping research, and cartographic scholarship. It offers a contemporary assessment of the diverse forms... more...

  • Geographical Population Analysisby Brian A. Maurer

    Wiley 2009; US$ 124.95

    Conservation biology -- using concepts from traditional resource management and modern population biology to preserve biological diversity -- has emerged as one of the most important areas of ecology In order to really understand the problems of decreasing diversity and the solutions to maintaining it, the attention of ecologists must be focused on... more...

  • Geographic Visualizationby Martin Dodge; Mary McDerby; Martin Turner

    Wiley 2008; US$ 119.95

    Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications  is a ‘state-of-the-art’ review of the latest developments in the subject. It examines how new concepts, methods and tools can be creatively applied to solve problems relevant to a wide range of topics.  The text covers the impact of three-dimensional displays on user... more...

  • Web Mapping Illustratedby Tyler Mitchell

    O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2007; US$ 31.99

    With the help of the Internet and accompanying tools, creating and publishing online maps has become easier and rich with options. A city guide web site can use maps to show the location of restaurants, museums, and art venues. A business can post a map for reaching its offices. The state government can present a map showing average income by area. Developers... more...

  • GIS Cartographyby Gretchen N. Peterson

    CRC Press 2009; US$ 96.95

    Covers various facets of map creation. This book includes cartographic standards such as colors, fonts, and data specific mapping techniques and the cultivation of creative skills and recommendations for novel design approaches. more...

  • Rhumb Lines and Map Warsby Mark Monmonier

    University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 25.00

    In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars , Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness.... more...

  • Maps and Politicsby Jeremy Black

    Reaktion Books 2000; US$ 26.50

    ?We all rely on the apparent accuracy and objectivity of maps, but often do not see the very process of mapping as political. Are the power and purpose of maps inherently political? Maps and Politics addresses this important question and seeks to emphasize that the apparent ‘objectivity’ of the map-­making and map-using process cannot... more...

  • Mercatorby Nicholas Crane

    Orion 2010; US$ 24.45

    Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) was born at the dawn of the Age of Discovery, when the world was beginning to be discovered and carved up by navigators, geographers and cartographers. Mercator was the greatest and most ingenious cartographer of them all: it was he who coined the word 'atlas' and solved the riddle of converting the three-dimensional globe... more...