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Planetary Cartography and GIS (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

Springer, 2019

This book approaches geological, geomorphological and topographical mapping from the point in the workflow at which science-ready datasets are available. Though there have been many individual projects on dynamic maps and online GISs, in which coding and data processing are given precedence over cartographic principles, cartography...

Springer Handbook of Geographic Information

Springer, 2012

Computer science provides a powerful tool that was virtually unknown three generations ago. Some of the classical fields of knowledge are geodesy (surveying), cartography, and geography. Electronics have revolutionized geodetic methods. Cartography has faced the dominance of the computer that results in simplified cartographic products. All...

Mapping Hacks : Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography

O'Reilly, 2005

Mapping Hacks is a collection of one hundred simple techniques available to developers and power users who want to draw digital maps. You'll learn where to find the best sources of geographic data and then how to integrate that data into your own creations. With so many industrial-strength tips and tools, ...

Innovations in Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

Springer, 2009

Remote sensing of our environment is becoming increasingly accessible and important in today’s society. This book aims to highlight some of the broad and multi-disciplinary applications, and emerging practices, that remote sensing and photogrammetric technologies lend themselves to. The papers have been selected from the 13th and 14th...

Digital Cultural Heritage

Springer, 2019

This book provides an overview of various application spheres and supports further innovations needed in information management and in the processes of knowledge generation. The professions, organizations and scientific associations involved are unusually challenged by the complexity of the data situation.

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Computer Vision

Prentice Hall, 2001

Scientists and science fiction writers have long been fascinated by the possibility of building intelligent machines and the capability of understanding the visual world is a prerequisite for such a machine. This book speaks to the notable research progress being conducted and brings together the important problem areas where computer vision is...

How to Make Maps: An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

Routledge, 2020

The goal of How to Make Maps is to equip readers with the foundational knowledge of concepts they need to conceive, design, and produce maps in a legible, clear, and coherent manner, drawing from both classical and modern theory in cartography.

This book is appropriate for graduate and undergraduate students who...

Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)

Springer, 2008

Knowledge Cartography is the discipline of mapping intellectual landscapes.

The focus of this book is on the process by which manually crafting interactive, hypertextual maps clarifies one’s own understanding, as well as communicating it.

The authors see mapping software as a set of visual tools for reading and writing in a...

Data Visualization For Dummies

For Dummies, 2014

A straightforward, full-color guide to showcasing data soyour audience can see what you mean, not just read about it

Big data is big news! Every company, industry, not-for-profit,and government agency wants and needs to analyze and leveragedatasets that can quickly become ponderously large. Datavisualization software enables...

Mastering QGIS

Packt Publishing, 2015

Go beyond the basics and unleash the full power of QGIS with practical, step-by-step examples

About This Book

Learn how to meet all your GIS needs with the leading open source GIS

Master QGIS by learning about database integration, geoprocessing tools, Python scripts, advanced...

Exploring Geovisualization (International Cartographic Association)

Pergamon, 2005

Sophisticated interactive maps are increasingly used to explore information - guiding us through data landscapes to provide information and prompt insight and understanding. Geovisualization is an emerging domain that draws upon disciplines such as computer science, human-computer interaction
design, cognitive sciences, graphical...

Visualizing Data Patterns with Micromaps (Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics)

CRC Press, 2010

After over fifteen years of research and trial and error, micromap designs have evolved to the point where they are slowly finding their way into mainstream statistical visualizations. Now seems to be a good time to pull all of the work together into a book in order to introduce micromaps to a wide range of people interested in...

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