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GISby David Green
CRC Press 2000; US$ 37.95An easily accessible guide to GIS at an elementary level. Written specifically for schoolteachers looking at incorporating GIS into the secondary school curriculum,it outlines the fundamentals and basics tools, and includes an invaluable glossary. more...
King's Two Mapsby Daniel Birkholz
Routledge 2004; US$ 44.95This book chronicles the specific technologies, material and epistemological, by which the map - a peculiar artefact, part image and part treatise - shows itself capable of accessing, organizing and reorienting a tremendous range of information. more...
Advances in GIS Research: Proceedings of the Sixthby Tom Waugh; Richard Healey
CRC Press 1995; US$ 149.95This text marks the 6th Symposium in the series of Symposia examining spatial data handling. more...
AGI Source Book For GISby David R. Green
CRC Press 1995; US$ 94.95This sourcebook comprises a series of short papers on topical issues and applications of GIS, as well as directories listing useful information on geographic information in the UK. This edition focuses on the topical theme of GIS business more...
Algorithmic Foundation of Multi-Scale Spatial Representationby Zhilin Li
CRC Press 2006; US$ 99.95Presents an coverage of all known algorithms available for the geometric transformations in spatial representation of different types of spatial features. This book focuses on geometric transformations in multi-scale representations. It is for cartographers, geographers, GIS specialists, and scientists in computational geometry. more...
Self-Made Mapby Tom Conley
University of Minnesota Press 1996; US$ 42.00In this wide-ranging and fascinating work, Tom Conley demonstrates that "a new cartographic impulse" during the French Renaissance gave rise to a new sense of self, one defined in part by the relationship of self and space. more...
Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance and Sustainabilityby Maik Netzband; William Stefanov; Charles Redman
Springer 2006; US$ 249.00Sometimes, science questions don't match well with what the operational problems and concerns of a given city are. This book presents data from six urban regions from all over the world, and explains what the questions are, and how one can use data and scientific skills to help answer them. more...
Advances in Digital Terrain Analysisby Qiming Zhou; Brian Lees; Guo-An Tang
Springer 2008; US$ 209.00Terrain 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 on delivering justifiable socio-economical and environmental benefits. The contributions in this book represent the state-of-the-art of terrain analysis methods and techniques in areas of digital representation, morphological and hydrological models, uncertainty and applications of terrain analysis. more...
Anti-personnel Landmine Detection for Humanitarian Deminingby Katsuhisa Furuta; Jun Ishikawa
Springer 2009; US$ 149.00Describes 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 GIScienceby Monika Sester; Lars Bernard; Volker Paelke
Springer 2009; US$ 169.00Includes 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...









