In 1983 I left the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC) and went to Wageningen Agricultural University, where I took the chair of “Land Surveying and Teledetection”. Up to that time I had been active mainly in geodesy and photogrammetry, but at Wageningen it soon became...

In the early 1990s, the establishment of the Internet brought forth a revolutionary viewpoint of information storage, distribution, and processing: the World-Wide Web is becoming an enormous and expanding distributed digital library. Along with the development of the Web, image indexing and retrieval have grown into research areas...

Anybody following the discussions around “Web Services” in recent years is aware of the fuzzy definition of the term, and a little bit of history can quite easily explain some of the confusions around current terminology (or use of terminology). The general idea of using Web technologies to not only deliver Web pages (HTML...

This is a book on the organization and architecture of theJava Virtual Machine(JVM), the software at the heart of the Java language and is found inside most computers,Web browsers, PDAs, and networked accessories. It also covers general principles of machine organization and architecture, with llustrations from other popular (and...

Engineering graphics is the process of defining an object graphically before it is constructed and used by consumers. Previously, this process for producing a drawing involved the use of drawing aids such as pencils, ink pens, triangles, T-squares, and so forth to place an idea on paper before making changes and producing blue-line...

This book is aimed primarily at application developers with a basic understanding of the C language and object-orientation concepts such as encapsulation and polymorphism. You don’t need to be an expert C coder to follow this book. All you need is a basic understanding of structures, pointers, and functions. That said, you will...

Pro Expression Blend 4 is for .NET developers and graphical artists who want to learn the ins and outs of the Expression Blend integrated development environment. You may know already that this tool can be used to build Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications; however, this book will take...

But there’s another side to Photoshop. In my work as an illustrator for...

What is "Fractal Image Compression" anyway? You will have to read (he book to find out everything about it, and if you read the book, you really will find out almost everything that is currently known about it. In a sentence or two: fractal image compression is a method, or class of methods, that allows images to be stored on...