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Map-based Mobile Services: Design, Interaction and Usability (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

Springer, 2008

The worldwide popularisation of mobile communication technologies and the increasing awareness of usability issues since 1990’s have been urging map designers to specialise and extend cartographic semiotics, visualisation styles and map use techniques for mobile contexts and small display devices. As a follow-up to the first book...

Collaborative Geographic Information Systems

Idea Group Publishing, 2006

Many advances in the integration of group spatial modeling, geographic information systems (GIS), and the Internet have occurred in recent years; however, there is a lack of materials to highlight the transdisciplinary characteristics and impacts of this convergence while providing a uniform and consistent treatment of this expanding field of...

GIScience Teaching and Learning Perspectives (Advances in Geographic Information Science)

Springer, 2019

This volume uniquely links educational theories and the practice of GIScience in higher education contexts to guide classroom practice, present effective practical implementations from peers, and provide resources and strategies for effective teaching methods. The book offers a comprehensive exploration of GIScience education, including...

Geoinformation: Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and Geographic Information Systems, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2002

Surveying and mapping has recently undergone a transition from discipline-oriented technologies, such as geodesy, surveying, photogrammetry and cartography, to the methodology-oriented integrated discipline of geoinformatics based on GPS positioning, remote sensing, digital photography for data acquisition, and GIS for data manipulation and data...

Basic GIS Coordinates, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2010

Coordinates are the foundation of GIS, cartography, and surveying, to name just a few fields. Computers have an astounding capacity for repetition and they possess a superior ability to handle the mathematics behind coordinate manipulation—but they are very bad at interpreting coordinates and coordinate systems.

Basic...

Beginning MapServer: Open Source GIS Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

Apress, 2005

Maps have played a prominent role in human activity for thousands of years. One of the earliest known maps was uncovered during the course of an archaeological excavation in Turkey in 1961. The Çatalhöyük site is a neolithic settlement dating from approximately 6500 BC. The map consists of a partially preserved, painted plaster...

Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer)

Wrox Press, 2008

Visual Basic 2008

Providing programmers and developers of all skill levels with a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic (VB) 2008, Microsoft MVP Rod Stephenspresents a broad, solid understanding of essential topics on the latest version of VB. He explains the forms, controls, and other objects that VB...

Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional

Apress, 2006

Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional explains how to use the open source image manipulation program, GIMP version 2.4. You'll learn how to install GIMP on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X platforms. Once you've installed the application, you'll learn about the interface and configuration options, and then jump into a quick-and-simple...

Learning ArcGIS for Desktop

Packt Publishing, 2016

Create, analyze, and map your spatial data with ArcGIS for Desktop

About This Book

Learn how to use ArcGIS for Desktop to create and manage geographic data, perform vector and raster analysis, design maps, and share your results

Solve real-world problems and share your...

Atlantic Passages: Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization

University Press of Florida, 2021

Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is usually seen as an endpoint in the journeys of those who traveled there. In Atlantic Passages, Robert Murray reveals that many Liberian settlers did not remain in...

Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals

Prentice Hall, 2008

Groundbreaking Patterns for Building Simpler, More Powerful Networks

In Patterns in Network Architecture, pioneer John Day takes a unique approach to solving the problem of network architecture. Piercing the fog of history, he bridges the gap between our experience from the...

Digital Terrain Modelling: Development and Applications in a Policy Support Environment (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

Springer, 2007

This publication is the first book on the development and application of digital terrain modelling for regional planning and policy support. It is a compilation of research results by international research groups at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, providing scientific support to the development and implementation of EU...

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