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Tile-Based Geospatial Information Systems: Principles and Practices

Springer, 2010

Tile-based online mapping systems have replaced traditional Web GIS systems, because of their improved speed and usability. The trend towards tile-base systems was started by Internet services companies, such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. They have been followed by the traditional GIS community, government organizations and open source...

Administrating Solr

Packt Publishing, 2013

Master the use of Drupal and associated scripts to administrate, monitor, and optimize Solr

Overview

Learn how to work with monitoring tools like OpsView, New Relic, and SPM

Utilize Solr scripts and Collection Distribution scripts to manage Solr

Employ search features like...

Advanced Analytics with Spark: Patterns for Learning from Data at Scale

O'Reilly, 2015

In this practical book, four Cloudera data scientists present a set of self-contained patterns for performing large-scale data analysis with Spark. The authors bring Spark, statistical methods, and real-world data sets together to teach you how to approach analytics problems by example.

You’ll start with an...

Anonymizing Health Data: Case Studies and Methods to Get You Started

O'Reilly, 2013

Updated as of August 2014, this practical book will demonstrate proven methods for anonymizing health data to help your organization share meaningful datasets, without exposing patient identity. Leading experts Khaled El Emam and Luk Arbuckle walk you through a risk-based methodology, using case studies from their efforts to...

Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach

Springer, 2007

Over the past decade, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have evolved from a highly specialized niche to a technology that affects nearly every aspect of our lives, from finding driving directions to managing natural disasters. While just a few years ago the use of GIS was restricted to a group of researchers, planners and...

Beginning Power BI with Excel 2013: Self-Service Business Intelligence Using Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query, and Power Map

Apress, 2014

Understanding your company’s data has never been easier than with Microsoft’s new Power BI package for Excel 2013. Consisting of four powerful tools—Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query and Power Maps—Power BI makes self-service business intelligence a reality for a wide range of users, bridging the traditional gap...

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...

Building Mapping Applications with QGIS

Packt Publishing, 2014

Create your own sophisticated applications to analyze and display geospatial information using QGIS and Python

About This Book

Make use of the geospatial capabilities of QGIS within your Python programs

Build complete standalone mapping applications based on QGIS and Python

Python Geospatial Analysis Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2015

Over 60 recipes to work with topology, overlays, indoor routing, and web application analysis with Python

About This Book

Explore the practical process of using geospatial analysis to solve simple to complex problems with reusable recipes

Concise step-by-step instructions to teach you...

Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures: Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval

Springer, 2005

Metadata play a fundamental role in both DLs and SDIs. Commonly defined as "structured data about data" or "data which describe attributes of a resource" or, more simply, "information about data", it is an essential requirement for locating and evaluating available data. Therefore, this book focuses on the study of...

Geospatial Technologies for Land Degradation Assessment and Management

CRC Press, 2018

The constant growth of the world’s population and the decline of the availability of land and soil resources are global concerns for food security. Other concerns are the decrease in productivity and delivery of essential ecosystems services because of the decline of soil quality and health by a range of degradation processes....

Programming ArcGIS with Python Cookbook - Second Edition

Packt Publishing, 2015

Key Features

Become a more efficient GIS professional by automating your geoprocessing tasks with Python and ArcGIS Desktop

In addition to the fundamentals, learn advanced, in-demand GIS skills sought by many employers

Step-by-step recipes that provide real-world solutions to common...

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