Camera Models and Fundamental Concepts Used in Geometric Computer Vision
Camera Models and Fundamental Concepts Used in Geometric Computer Vision

Author: Peter Sturm

Publisher: Now Publishers Inc

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1601984103

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Camera Models and Fundamental Concepts Used in Geometric Computer Vision surveys the image acquisition methods used in computer vision and especially, of the vast number of camera models that have been proposed and investigated over the years, and points out similarities between different models.

History of the Meteorological Office
History of the Meteorological Office

Author: Malcolm Walker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-11-14

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1139504487

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Malcolm Walker tells the story of the UK's national meteorological service from its formation in 1854 with a staff of four to its present position as a scientific and technological institution of national and international importance with a staff of nearly two thousand. The Met Office has long been at the forefront of research into atmospheric science and technology and is second to none in providing weather services to the general public and a wide range of customers around the world. The history of the Met Office is therefore largely a history of the development of international weather prediction research in general. In the modern era it is also at the forefront of the modelling of climate change. This volume will be of great interest to meteorologists, atmospheric scientists and historians of science, as well as amateur meteorologists and anyone interested generally in weather prediction.

Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910
Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910

Author: Aitor Anduaga

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-12

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1000145069

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Weather forecasting is the most visible branch of meteorology and has its modern roots in the nineteenth century when scientists redefined meteorology in the way weather forecasts were made, developing maps of isobars, or lines of equal atmospheric pressure, as the main forecasting tool. This book is the history of how weather forecasting was moulded and modelled by the processes of nation-state building and statistics in the Western world.