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Learning D3.js Mapping

Packt Publishing, 2015

Build stunning maps and visualizations using D3.js

About This Book

Dive into D3.js and apply its powerful data binding ability in order to create stunning visualizations

Learn the key concepts of SVG, JavaScript, CSS and the DOM in order to project images onto the browser

Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management focuses on manifested threats to humans and their welfare as a result of natural disasters. The book uses an integrative approach to address socio-cultural, political and physical components of the disaster process. Human and social vulnerability as well as risk...

Landscape Simulation Modeling:: A Spatially Explicit, Dynamic Approach (Modeling Dynamic Systems)

Springer, 2003

When managers and ecologists need to make decisions about the environment, they use models to simulate the dynamic systems that interest them. All management decisions affect certain landscapes over time, and those landscapes are composed of intricate webs of dynamic processes that need to be considered in relation to each other. With widespread...

Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology)

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is a rapidly developing archaeological method which is moving from the domain of the computer specialist into that of the broader archaeological community. This comprehensive manual on the use of GIS in archaeology explores the concept of GIS and illustrates how it can be adapted for practical use....

Autodesk InfraWorks and InfraWorks 360 Essentials: Autodesk Official Press

Sybex, 2014

Your guide to quickly learning InfraWorks

Autodesk InfraWorks Essentials is a complete, hands-on tutorial for InfraWorks, the powerful design tool that lets you quickly generate 3D models to create infrastructure designs and proposals. This Autodesk Official Press book shows you the right way to take advantage...

Google Earth For Dummies (Computer/Tech)

For Dummies, 2007

Want to stroll down the Champs Elysees in Paris? Feel like taking a personal look at the Great Wall of China? Or perhaps you’d like to explore the island of Tahiti on your lunch break? Thanks to Google Earth, you can.

With Google Earth, you can forget the Frequent Flyer miles. All you have to do is plop down in front of your...

GIS for Web Developers: Adding 'Where' to Your Web Applications

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007

There is a hidden revolution going on: geography is moving from niche to the mainstream. News reports routinely include maps and satellite images. More and more pieces of equipment cell phones, cars, computers now contain Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. Many of the major database vendors have made geographic data types...

Developments in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography, Volume 5: Applications and Indigenous Mapping (Modern Cartography Series)

Elsevier Limited, 2014

Developments in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartographyâawarded an Honorable Mention in Earth Science at the Association of American Publishers' 2015 PROSE Awardsâexamines some of the recent developments in the theory and practice of cybercartography and the substantial changes which have taken place since the first...

HBase in Action

Manning Publications, 2012

I got my start with HBase in the fall of 2008. It was a young project then, released only in the preceding year. As early releases go, it was quite capable, although not without its fair share of embarrassing warts. Not bad for an Apache subproject with fewer than 10 active committers to its name! That was the height of the NoSQL...

Pro Oracle Spatial

Apress, 2013

In the past decade, location analysis has outgrown its traditional use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and has become a critical component in business applications. The vast majority of commercial franchises employ location-based analysis and services in their day-to-day activities. With this growing usage, scalable and...

ArcGIS for JavaScript developers by Example

Packt Publishing, 2016

Key Features

Unshackle your GIS application from a workstation! Get running with three major web mapping projects covering all the important aspects of the ArcGIS JavaScript API.

Set a strong foundation for the ArcGIS JavaScript API and modular coding with dojo.

Gain a crystal clear...

Spatial Analysis and GIS

CRC Press, 1994

Geographic information systems represent an exciting and rapidly expanding technology via which spatial data may be captured, stored, retrieved, displayed, manipulated and analyzed. Applications of this technology include detailed inventories of land use parcels. Spatial patterns of disease, geodemographics, environmental management and macroscale...

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