This book provides extensive insight on remote sensing of coastal waters from aircraft and space-based platforms. The primary focus of the book is optical remote sensing using passive...More

The material provided is collected from the 6th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation, initiated by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and hosted by DLR,...More

Metadata play a fundamental role in both DLs and SDIs. Commonly defined as "structured data about data" or "data which describe attributes of a resource" or, more simply, "information about...More

This volume comprises a collection of 40 chapters by experts dealing with the application of GIS, remote sensing, cartography, visualization and GPS to coastal and marine environments around...More

The book addresses scientists and technical experts who have already some background knowledge in GIS and who want to know more about standardisation in GIS, in particular, the role of the...More

This edited volume, based upon the papers presented during the “Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security Symposium” on Nov. 15, 2006, presents an overview of the latest development of...More

Aimed at all types of public health practitioners and theorists, this book is a compilation of methodological and application developments in spatial epidemiological approaches for...More

The book serves as a collection of multi-disciplinary contributions related to Geographic Hypermedia and highlights the technological aspects of GIS. Specifically, it focuses on its database...More

Environmental information systems (EIS) are concerned with the management of data about the soil, the water, the air, and the species in the world around us. This first textbook on the topic...More

The book explores new approaches and applications of geospatial technologies to understand past, present and future impacts environmental policies and management practices have on the...More