Learn IT - Books tags surveying

Geoinformation: Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and Geographic Information Systems, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2002

Surveying and mapping has recently undergone a transition from discipline-oriented technologies, such as geodesy, surveying, photogrammetry and cartography, to the methodology-oriented integrated discipline of geoinformatics based on GPS positioning, remote sensing, digital photography for data acquisition, and GIS for data manipulation and data...

Natural Hazards GIS-Based Spatial Modeling Using Data Mining Techniques (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research)

Springer, 2018

This edited volume assesses capabilities of data mining algorithms for spatial modeling of natural hazards in different countries based on a collection of essays written by experts in the field. The book is organized on different hazards including landslides, flood, forest fire, land subsidence, earthquake, and gully erosion. Chapters were...

Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences: 7th International Symposium

Springer, 2015

This book is a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art studies of seafloor slope instability and their societal implications. The volume captures the most recent and exciting scientific progress made in this research field.

As the world’s climate and energy needs change, the conditions under which slope instability...

Map-based Mobile Services: Design, Interaction and Usability (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

Springer, 2008

The worldwide popularisation of mobile communication technologies and the increasing awareness of usability issues since 1990’s have been urging map designers to specialise and extend cartographic semiotics, visualisation styles and map use techniques for mobile contexts and small display devices. As a follow-up to the first book...

Security in Computing Systems: Challenges, Approaches and Solutions

Springer, 2008

This monograph on Security in Computing Systems: Challenges, Approaches and Solutions aims at introducing, surveying and assessing the fundamentals of secu rity with respect to computing. Here, “computing” refers to all activities which individuals or groups directly or indirectly perform by means of computing sys tems,...

Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis:State of the Art Surveys (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

Springer, 2004

ULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS: State of the Art Surveys is the most comprehensive work available to survey the state of the art in MCDA to date. Its 25 chapters are organized in eight parts and are written by 52 international leading experts. Each of these parts covers one of the central streams of multiple criteria decision analysis...

Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

There now exists a wealth of tools and techniques that can determine if and how a Web site is providing business value to its owners. This book is a survey of those metrics and is as important to IT executives as it is to marketing professionals.

Jim Sterne is recognized worldwide as a leading Internet business expert and is the...

Basic GIS Coordinates, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2010

Coordinates are the foundation of GIS, cartography, and surveying, to name just a few fields. Computers have an astounding capacity for repetition and they possess a superior ability to handle the mathematics behind coordinate manipulation—but they are very bad at interpreting coordinates and coordinate systems.

Basic...

Medicine Across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures

Springer, 2003

This work deals with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western medicine and religion and medicine. Each essay...

Refurbishment and Upgrading of Buildings: .

Taylor & Francis, 2009

...I can recommend the book as good reading for students of surveying and architecture, for developers and for those involve with refurbishment of historic buildings..
–Dr. Jagjit Singh, Director, Environmental Building Solutions Ltd, Journal of Architectural Conservation No. 3, November 2001

...the...

Bionanotechnology: Lessons from Nature

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Today is the most exciting time to be working in nanotechnology, and bionanotechnology in particular. Chemistry, biology, and physics have revealed an immense amount of information on molecular structure and function, and now we are poised to make use of it for atomic-level engineering. New discoveries are being made every day, and...

CIOs at Work

Apress, 2011

In CIOs at Work, noted author Ed Yourdon interviews many of the world's most influential chief information officers. You will gain insights from the first CIO of the USA, take a peek into the future with the CIO at Google, learn the unique role IT plays in testing Microsoft applications, and much more.

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