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Anti-personnel Landmine Detection for Humanitarian Demining
Springer 2009; US$ 119.99Describes various technologies developed during a Japanese National Research Project which ran from 2002-2007 to meet the challenge of developing practical detection systems that can discriminate between anti-personnel land mines and the innocent metal fragments that frequently litter minefields confusing conventional and metal-detecting methods. more...
Advances in GIScience
Springer 2009; US$ 159.99Includes peer-reviewed papers covering topical research in GIScience. This book addresses aspects of remote sensing and image understanding. It is suitable for researchers, practitioners, and students interested in different findings in GIScience. more...
Basic GIS Coordinates
CRC Press 2010; US$ 94.95Outlining the basic principles of coordinate systems, this second edition covers ellipsoids, datums, and plane coordinates as they are used in GIS and GPS. It also explains complex topics with in a logical progression and in a manner which is neither too complicated not oversimplified, avoiding getting bogged down in the mathematics. more...
No Dig, No Fly, No Go
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades... more...
Cartographies of Travel and Navigation
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 48.00Finding one’s way with a map is a relatively recent phenomenon. In premodern times, maps were used, if at all, mainly for planning journeys in advance, not for guiding travelers on the road. With the exception of navigational sea charts, the use of maps by travelers only became common in the modern era; indeed, in the last two hundred years,... more...
Maphead
Scribner 2011; US$ 16.00It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere. Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from... more...
The Map Reader
Wiley 2011; US$ 129.95WINNER 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 over the last half century. The editorial... more...
Remote Sensing from Air and Space
SPIE 2006; US$ 69.70This book will guide you in the use of remote sensing for military and intelligence gathering applications. It is a must read for students working on systems acquisition or for anyone interested in the products derived from remote sensing systems. R. C. Olsen of the Naval Postgraduate School offers an eclectic description of the technologies and underlying... more...
The Mapmakers' Quest
OUP Oxford 2003; US$ 35.99In 1400 Europe was behind large parts of the world in its understanding of the use of maps. For instance, the people gf China and of Japan were considerably more advanced in this respect. And yet, by 1600 the Europeans had come to use maps for a huge variety of tasks, and were far ahead of the rest of the world in their appreciation of the power and... more...
World Directory of Map Collections
De Gruyter 2000; US$ 133.00The World Directory of Map Collections. more...









