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Beginning MapServer
Springer 2005; US$ 44.99A comprehensive introduction to MapServer, an Open Source geographic information systems (GIS) development platform used for integrating mapping technology into Internet applications. more...
Assessing the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 115.95Includes four chapters on such topics as positional accuracy and using accuracy assessment as an intermediate step in image classification. This book contains an entire chapter devoted to the fuzzy accuracy assessment process and includes a 16-page color insert. more...
Coast Lines
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 18.00In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious challenges to all aspects of coastal existence—chiefly economic, residential, and environmental—as... 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$ 15.00It 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...
World Directory of Map Collections
De Gruyter 2000; US$ 133.00The World Directory of Map Collections. more...









