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Remote Sensing Monitoring and Evaluation of Degraded Grassland in China: Accounting of Grassland Carbon Source and Carbon Sink (Springer Geography)

Springer, 2019

This book focuses on grassland ecosystem evaluation including vegetation coverage, net primary productivity, carbon sink accounting, and grassland degradation evaluation based on mutual data resource, ecosystem model simulation, remote sensing monitoring and driving mechanism exploration. It aims to provide a guide seeking to understand the...

Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature

Free Press, 2001

In Civilizations, Felipe Fernández-Armesto once again proves himself a brilliantly original historian, capable of large-minded and comprehensive works; here he redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization.

To...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 10th International Conference, ITS 2010, Pittsburgh, PA

Springer, 2010

The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010, continued the bi-annual series of top-flight international conferences on the use of advanced educational technologies that are adaptive to users or groups of users. These highly interdisciplinary conferences bring together researchers in the learning sciences,...

Optimal Traffic Control: Urban Intersections

CRC Press, 2007

Despite traffic circles, four-way stop signs, lights regulated by timers or sensors, and other methods, the management of urban intersections remains problematic. Consider that transportation systems have all the features of so-called complex systems: the great number of state and control variables, the presence of uncertainty and indeterminism,...

Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmers Guide (Expert's Voice in SQL Server)

Apress, 2008

Discussing new and existing features, SQL Server designer and administrator Michael Coles takes you on an expert guided tour of Transact–SQL functionality in SQL Server 2008 in his book Pro T–SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide. Fully functioning examples and downloadable source code bring Coles’...

The Physical Geography of Brazil: Environment, Vegetation and Landscape (Geography of the Physical Environment)

Springer, 2019

This book presents the Brazilian natural space and environment. It describes the main environmental aspects of Brazil in relation to geology, climate, geomorphology, vegetation, fauna, water resources and environmental issues.

The book presents a beautifully illustrated overview of the physical geography of the...

Mediterranean Mountain Environments

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Mediterranean mountains exhibit many similarities in their biotic ecological, physical and environmental characteristics. There are also many differences in terms of their human colonization pattern, historic land uses and current anthopogenic pressures.

This book provides an introduction to these environments of...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 10th International Conference, ITS 2010, Pittsburgh, PA

Springer, 2010

The Dictionary of Human Geography

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

With clear, critical, and constructive surveys of key terms by leading researchers in the field, The Dictionary of Human Geography, fifth edition, remains the definitive guide to the concepts and debates in human geography.

Comprehensively revised new edition of a highly successful text with over 300 key...

Human Geoscience (Advances in Geological Science)

Springer, 2019

This book is a product of the joint efforts of interdisciplinary academic fields under the integrative framework of human geoscience. Human geoscience is a new genre of geoscience concerned with the natural phenomena that occur on the surface of the Earth and their relations with human activities. It therefore has connections with many...

Digital Photogrammetry: A Practical Course

Springer, 2006

The second edition is an "all-in-one" combination of basic theory and practical exercises with software and data included on a CD-ROM. Potential readers/users are students of Photogrammetry, Geodesy, Geography and other sciences, but also all who are interested in this topic. No prior knowledge is necessary, except the handling of...

The Caucasus - An Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)

Routledge, 2009

The Caucasus is one of the most complicated regions in the world: with many different peoples and political units, differing religious allegiances, and frequent conflicts, and where historically major world powers have clashed with each other. Until now there has been no single book for those wishing to learn about this complex region. This book...

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