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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Earth Observation of Global Change: The Role of Satellite Remote Sensing in Monitoring the Global Environment
Global Change is increasingly considered a critical topic in environmental research. Remote sensing methods provide a relevant tool to monitor global variables, since they offer a systematic coverage of the Earth Surface, at different spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions. The data provided by Earth Observation Satellites are being operationally used for monitoring atmospheric conditions, ice sheets and glaciar movements, crop dynamism and land use changes, deforestation and desertification processes, as well as water conditions. The book includes an analysis of the leading missions in global Earth observation, and then reviews the main fields in which remote sensing methods are providing vital data for global change studies. Audience: Academic libraries, practitioners, professionals, scientists, researchers, lecturers, tutors, graduates, undergraduates.. 
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System
This comprehensive text on Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) presents the fundamentals of the emerging technology of remote sensing combined with GIS. It provides sufficient knowledge of these technologies applied in different fields avoiding voluminous details required at research level. The first part introduces the basics of remote sensing leading up to data analysis. An exhaustive discussion on various types of sensors and their uses has been included to make the readers understand clearly their utilities. The second part presents the highly technical field of Geographic Information System, a tool that now finds applications in almost all fields of engineering, science, geography, planning, and decision-making... Saturday, June 25, 2011
The Political Mapping of Cyberspace
As inherently spatial beings, our sense of space in cyberspace challenges all that is familiar in terms of our ability to define, organize, govern, and map social places. In The Political Mapping of Cyberspace, Jeremy Crampton shows that cyberspace is not the virtual reality we think it to be, but instead a rich geography of political practices and power relations.Using concepts and methods derived from the work of Michel Foucault, Crampton outlines a new mapping of cyberspace to help define the role of space in virtual worlds and to provide constructive ways in which humans can exist in another spatial dimension. He delineates the critical role maps play in constructing the medium as an object of knowledge and demonstrates that by processes of mapping we come to understand cyberspace. Maps, he argues, shape political thinking about cyberspace, and he deploys in-depth case studies of crime mapping, security maintenance, and geo-surveillance to show how we map ourselves onto cyberspace,.. You might also like:
Semantic Modeling for the Acquisition of Topographic Information from Images and Maps: SMATI 97
Acquiring spatial data for geoinformation systems is still mainly done by human operators who analyze images using classical photogrammetric equipment or digitize maps, possibly assisted by some low level image processing. Automation of these tasks is difficult due to the complexity of the object, the topography, and the deficiency of current pattern recognition and image analysis tools for achieving a reliable transition from the data to the high level description of topographic objects. It appears that progress in automation only can be achieved by incorporating domain-specific semantic models into the analysis procedures. This volume collects papers which were presented at the Workshop "SMATI '97". The workshop focused on "Semantic Modeling for the Acquisition of Topographic Information from Images and Maps." This volume offers a comprehensive selection of high-quality and in-depth contributions by experts of the field coming from leading research institutes, treating both theoretic.. Friday, June 24, 2011
Telegeoinformatics: Location-based Computing and Services
Telegeoinformatics is a rapidly emerging discipline focusing on the theory and applications of integrated telecommunications, geoinformatics, and mobile computing technologies. It uses geoinformatics (GIS, GPS, satellite imagery, and aerial photo imagery) in a distributed mobile computing environment where the mobile computers are linked through a wireless communication network and is paving the way for the merging of Location-Based Computing (LBC) and Location-Based Services (LBSs).This unique book covers the theory, technologies, and applications of telegeoinformatics in some depth, and should enable readers to understand, conceptualize, analyze, design and implement telegeoinformatics-related activities and projects, whether their backgrounds are in geoinformatics, telecommunications, or mobile computing. It will also be useful for undergraduate and graduate courses. INV STAT: Not yet published.. Spatial Analysis and GeoComputation: Selected Essays (v. 1)
This volume contains selected essays of Manfred M. Fischer in the field of spatial analysis from the perspective of GeoComputation. The volume is structured in four parts, from broad issues in spatial analysis and the role of GIS to computational intelligence technologies such as neural networks. The third part provides the theoretical framework required for adaptive pattern classifiers in remote sensing environments. The final section outlines the latest in neural spatial interaction modeling... Getting Started With Geographic Information Systems (Prentice Hall Series in Geographic Information Science)
Designed to make the complexity of this rapidly-growing high-tech field accessible to beginning students, this text provides a basic, non-technical and student-friendly introduction to GIS. The book clearly links theory and practice, and helps apply the material to the real world by providing interviews with practising GIS professionals. It features simple explanations, many illustrations and photographs, extensive chapter-end study aids, and generic laboratory assignments for use with any GIS software... You might also like:
The Dissemination of Spatial Data: A North American-European Comparative Study on the Impact of Government Information Policy (Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies, and Services)
A review of the dissemination of spatial data. Topics addressed include: spatial information infrastructure and innovation; designing information policy research; and evaluating information use, access and dissemination. The work also contains comparative case studies of information dissemination... Spatial Information Theory. Foundations of Geographic Information Science: International Conference, COSIT 2001 Morro Bay, CA, USA, September 19-23, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 3001, held in Morro Bay, CA, USA in September 2001. The 30 revised full papers presented together with three full keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 70 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on geographical ontology and onthologies; qualitative spatio-temporal reasoning; formalizations of human spatial cognition; space, cognition, and information systems; human and machine approaches to navigation; language and space; and cognitive mapping... Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Geographic Information Systems
This book presents an accessible introduction to the history, principles and techniques of GIS, with a unique focus on socioeconomic applications. With frequent reference to illustrations, this non-technical overview of GIS explores the collection, input, storage, manipulation and output of data in GIS and addresses the needs of students and professionals who must understand and use GIS for the first time.This second edition builds on the strengths of the first. Taking account of recent advances in GIS development and major new socioeconomic datasets (including new census data), it explores more fully the contribution of GIS to geography and their power in influencing our environment... Geographic Information Research
A sequel to Geographic Information Research: Bridging the Atlantic, this book is a collection of chapters on matters of political, strategic and organizational importance in geographic information research. The emphasis is on the theory and social and political practice which goes hand in hand with GIS. With contributions from the best known names in geographic information, the book provides a significant resource on the leading edge of this dynamic discipline... GIS Diffusion : The Adoption and Use of Geographical Information Systems in Local Government in Europe - GISDATA 3 (GISDATA Series)
This work, part of the "GISDATA" series, focuses on the use of geographical information systems GIS in European local government. It explores the extent to which diffusion of innovations like GIS are sensitive to national issues such as institutional set-up and the availability of data...
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