Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems

Author: Christopher Legg

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Incorporating recent advances made in remote sensing technology, this text draws attention to ways in which remote sensing may minimize the environmental impact of exploration and improve cost-effectiveness. Topics include image processing, geographic information systems, current and future sensing

Geographic Information Systems for Geoscientists
Geographic Information Systems for Geoscientists

Author: Graeme F. Bonham-Carter

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-05-18

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1483144941

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Geographic Information Systems for Geoscientists: Modelling with GIS provides an introduction to the ideas and practice of GIS to students and professionals from a variety of geoscience backgrounds. The emphasis in the book is to show how spatial data from various sources (principally paper maps, digital images and tabular data from point samples) can be captured in a GIS database, manipulated, and transformed to extract particular features in the data, and combined together to produce new derived maps, that are useful for decision-making and for understanding spatial interrelationship. The book begins by defining the meaning, purpose, and functions of GIS. It then illustrates a typical GIS application. Subsequent chapters discuss methods for organizing spatial data in a GIS; data input and data visualization; transformation of spatial data from one data structure to another; and the combination, analysis, and modeling of maps in both raster and vector formats. This book is intended as both a textbook for a course on GIS, and also for those professional geoscientists who wish to understand something about the subject. Readers with a mathematical bent will get more out of the later chapters, but relatively non-numerate individuals will understand the general purpose and approach, and will be able to apply methods of map modeling to clearly-defined problems.

Geographic Information Science and Mountain Geomorphology
Geographic Information Science and Mountain Geomorphology

Author: Michael Bishop

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-06-30

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9783540426400

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From the reviews: "Bishop and Schroder (both, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha) have brought together an impressive group of practitioners in the relatively new application of geographic information science to mountain geomorphology. In doing so, they have produced valuable, first, overall coverage of a high-tech approach to mountain, three-dimensional research. More than 40 contributing authors discuss a wide range of related aspects.... The book is well bound and well produced; each chapter provides an extensive source of references. The numerous line drawings are clearly reproduced, although the mediocre quality of photographic reproduction limits the value of air photographs and satellite images. As is characteristic of many edited collections, there is some variation in chapter quality. Some of the writing is so dense that it requires minute concentration--one chapter, for instance, has 14 pages of references from a total of 43 pages. Nevertheless, this is a vital compendium for a rapidly expanding field of research. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." (J. D. Ives, Choice, March 2005)

The Current Role of Geological Mapping in Geosciences
The Current Role of Geological Mapping in Geosciences

Author: Stanislaw R. Ostaficzuk

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-01-14

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1402035519

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The book contains private views of experts from various countries on the role of geological mapping in sustainable development. New technologies and concepts are presented, which are either awaiting for recognition by Geological Surveys, or are gradually applied in some survey. The target of the book is well worded in the "Summary and recommendations" elaborated by the Ad Hoc Committee at the Advanced Research Workshop on Innovative Geological Cartography, held under NATO sponsorship in Poland in November 2003. After the "Summaries" were issued by the end of 2003, the authors who presented their views at the Workshop, gave a revised version of their papers with more new ideas and material. Generally, the book is addressed to cartographers in Geological Surveys, geologists and geographers co-operating with landuse planners, ecologists and decision makers, who may learn about the state-of-the-art and the enormous information potential of the modern information technologies in Geosciences. The book, however, gives no methodological recipes but, as it was the authors' intention, may and shall be used as a guide-book in modernizing Information Technologies at the local, regional and national levels in Geosciences.

The History of Geographic Information Systems
The History of Geographic Information Systems

Author: Timothy W. Foresman

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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These authors' contributions helped bring to national, state, and federal agencies the powerful new suite of geospatial tools for issues ranging from land use management to population enumeration."--BOOK JACKET.