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Spatial Data Modelling for 3D GIS
Springer 2007; US$ 129.99This book covers fundamental aspects of spatial data modelling specifically on the aspect of three-dimensional (3D) modelling and structuring. Realisation of "true" 3D GIS spatial system needs a lot of effort, and the process is taking place in various research centres and universities in some countries. The development of spatial data modelling... more...
GO
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 124.95This book is a comprehensive introduction to Gunnar Olsson's work, providing an overview of the range of achievements of this highly distinguished and internationally acclaimed Swedish geographer. It includes selected samples of Olsson's own writings, including rarities, together with a consolidated bibliography of his publications. It also... more...
Remote Sensing of Landscapes with Spectral Images
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 104.00A graduate textbook that describes how to process and interpret spectral images using physical models. more...
Self-Organising Maps
Wiley 2008; US$ 179.95Self-Organising Maps: Applications in GI Science brings together the latest geographical research where extensive use has been made of the SOM algorithm, and provides readers with a snapshot of these tools that can then be adapted and used in new research projects. The book begins with an overview of the SOM technique and the most commonly used (and... more...
Making Political Geography
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 44.99Now thoroughly revised and updated, this concise text offers a deeply knowledgeable and balanced history and overview of political geography since its inception in the late nineteenth century. Rather than trying to impose a single ?fashionable? theory, leading geographers John Agnew and Luca Muscarà consider the underlying role of changing geopolitical... more...
Next Generation Geospatial Information
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 104.95This volume offers a collection of original contributions from leading experts in spatial information modeling, image processing and analysis, database management, ontologies and data mining. It covers distributed spatial infrastructure, image-based geosp more...
Scriptural Geography
I.B.Tauris 2009; US$ 89.50For nineteenth century scholars the Holy Land was not just a region of the globe - it was an idea, an intellectual and moral space charged with the heat of debate between those trying to understand the religious, social and scientific upheavals of the time. Edwin Aiken explores the various ways in which geographical knowledge was used in these debates.... more...
Pro Spatial with SQL Server 2012
Springer 2012; US$ 41.99Microsoft SQL Server implements extensive support for location-based data. Pro Spatial with SQL Server 2012 introduces SQL Servers spatial feature set, and covers everything you'll need to know to store, manipulate, and analyze information about the physical location of objects in space. Youll learn about the geography and geometry... more...
In the Land of White Death
Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 16.00In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting grounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in the pack ice of the treacherous Kara... more...
Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS
SAGE Publications 2007; US$ 41.00"Albrecht's slim volume is an important contribution to users and teachers of geographic information systems. It is a distillation of the core functions available in contemporary workstation GIS systems, functions likely to become common on Web mapping systems like Google Earth and MS Virtual Earth. Well written and up-to-date, this book is an excellent... more...









