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The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship

Geographic information systems have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to...More

Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas

Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas provides instructors with a text reference that has a logical and easy-to-follow flow of topics around which they can structure the syllabi of their...More

Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures, Second Edition

The second edition of Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures explores the efforts of the European Union to create a framework for a multinational infrastructure for spatial information...More

Algebraic Geodesy and Geoinformatics

The book presents modern and efficient methods for solving Geodetic and Geoinformatics algebraic problems illustrated with Mathematica using computer algebra techniques of Ring, Polynomials,...More

Environmental Modeling With GPS

The living environment is one of the most important factors for human evolution and socio-economic development. But during the last decades, the continuously increasing need of new energy...More

Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change

In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida...More

No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control

Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town...More

Geospatial Information and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Current Issues and Future Challenges

Geospatial information is data referenced to a place - a set of geographic coordinates - which can often be gathered, manipulated, and displayed in real time. A GIS is a computer system capable...More

GIS Exercise Workbook for Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems

Designed to make the complexity of this essential high-tech field accessible to beginning students, this text provides a basic, non-technical, and student-friendly introduction to geographic...More

Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems (5th Edition)

Designed to make the complexity of this essential high-tech field accessible to beginners, this text provides a basic, non-technical, and reader-friendly introduction to geographic information...More