Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing

This book presents outstanding chapter contributions on the Nasca culture in a variety of artistic expressions such as architecture, geoglyphs, ceramics, music, and textiles.

Written by world renowned scientists, this book provides an excellent overview of a wide array of methods and techniques for the processing and analysis of multitemporal remotely sensed images.

This book departs from typical cartography textbooks, which tend to focus on the characteristics of the methods and means of expression.

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented at the 13th International Symposium on Location Based Services (LBS 2016), which was held in Vienna (Austria) from November 14 to 16, 2016.

This book explores the concept of a map as a fundamental data type.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2016, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in September 2016.

This book presents relevant and contemporary research on the remote sensing of landscapes, agriculture & forestry, geomorphology, coasts & oceans, natural hazards and wild habitats.

This edited volume gathers the proceedings of the Symposium GIS Ostrava 2016, the Rise of Big Spatial Data, held at the Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, March 16-18, 2016.

This book demonstrates how GIS techniques and statistical methods can be used to emphasise the characteristics of population and its related variables, vis-a-vis care facilities and the status of vector borne diseases, as well as for malaria modeling.

Written by world renowned scientists, this book provides an excellent overview of a wide array of methods and techniques for the processing and analysis of multitemporal remotely sensed images.

This book describes and provides many detailed examples of implementing Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) using R.

This volume provides in-depth coverage of the latest in remote sensing of hydrological extremes:  both floods and droughts.

This Handbook presents a complete and rigorous overview of the fundamentals, methods and applications of the multidisciplinary field of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), providing an exhaustive, one-stop reference work and a state-of-the-art description of GNSS as a key technology for science and society at large.

This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies and coastal disaster prevention modeling for oceanic and coastal regions.

This work analyzes the effects of one of the most dramatic changes of entire societies that the world has ever witnessed.

Born out of a major international dialogue held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy, this collection of essays presents innovative and provocative arguments about the claims of universal knowledge schemes and the different aesthetic and material forms in which such claims have been made and executed.

This book demonstrates the pivotal role played by state confines in the geography of Balkan countries through powerful GIS and remote sensing analyses.

The case studies in this book illuminate how arts and humanities tropes can aid in contextualizing Digital Arts and Humanities, Neogeographic and Social Media activity and data through the creation interpretive schemas to study interactions between visualizations, language, human behaviour, time and place.

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This is a revised and updated second edition, including new chapters on temporal and point uncertainty model, as well as on sampling and deterministic modeling.

The book brings together high-quality research articles on advanced hydrological analysis, advanced computational methods, and the ecological and sociological aspects of urban watershed management under one umbrella.

These proceedings contain a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH), Matsushima, Japan, 22-26 July, 2014.

This improved and updated second edition covers the theory, development, and design of electro-acoustic transducers for underwater applications.

This doctoral thesis applies measurements of ground deformation from satellite radar using their potential to play a key role in understanding volcanic and magmatic processes throughout the eruption cycle.

This volume describes the construction of the territorial identity of the southern end of South America and analyzes the cartographic territorialization of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the "e;Terra Australis"e; continent.

This book collects innovative research presented at the 19th Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) on Geographic Information Science, held in Helsinki, Finland in 2016.

This book is designed to help students and researchers understand the latest research and development trends in the domain of geospatial information and communication (GeoICT) technologies.

The combined observational power of the multiple earth observing satellites is currently not being harnessed holistically to produce more durable societal benefits.

Volcanoes have terrified and, at the same time, fascinated civilizations for thousands of years.

This book is a collection of overview articles showing how space-based observations, combined with hydrological modeling, have considerably improved our knowledge of the continental water cycle and its sensitivity to climate change.

This book discusses how emerging groundwater risks under current and potential climate change conductions reduce available groundwater resources for domestic use, and agriculture and energy production.

This book describes essential methods for evaluating groundwater vulnerability to contamination.

This book sheds new light on the causes and consequences of elephant migration in the Panchet Forest Division of Bankura District in West Bengal, India- an area characterized by fragmented forested landscape modified by agriculture and settlement expansion.

This book addresses a key issue in today's society: the safer transport of dangerous goods, taking into account people, the environment and economics.

This proceedings contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the IAG Scientific Assembly, Postdam, Germany, 1-6 September, 2013.

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries-all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps.

This book contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the VIII Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy in Rome, 17-21 June, 2013.

This book provides results of spatial and temporal distributions of water quality parameters and marine primary production and its relationship with the driving atmospheric, ocean circulation and hydrobiological mechanisms established through a synergistic use of multi-spectral region spaceborne data and results of numerical model simulations of marine in-water and atmospheric processes related to the marine ecosystem.

This book will help future scientists to become more intelligent users of computing technology in their practice of science.

Thisbook constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conferenceon Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, heldin Barcelona, Spain, in April 2015.

This book is an introductory course to the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere and to climate dynamics.

This book discusses the role of observatories in supporting evidence-based decision-making.

This book presents the results of empirical research conducted by the authors, who personally surveyed the people they met on each and every street, square and public space in Budapest.

This unique work presents a detailed review of the processing and analysis of 3D point clouds.

This book compiles an array of interesting constellations that fell by the wayside before the IAU established the modern canon of constellations.

Thistimely and authoritative volume explores the bidirectional relationship betweenimages and locations.

This book presents a new type of modeling environment where users interact with geospatial simulations using 3D physical models of studied landscapes.

This book presents a balanced combination of practical and theoretical aspects of geoarchaeology.

The book presents a collection of accepted papers from the 3DGeoinfo 2015 international conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from October 28 - 30, 2015.

This volume addresses the physical foundation of remote sensing.