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Focusing on practical aspects of the global positioning, remote sensing and geographic information systems, this comprehensive manual provides the basic mathematics, computer science and physics needed to understand how these technologies are used for mapping, inventory and data conversion. The text presents real-world applications of these technologies, including road map navigation using GPS, as well as problems associated with mapping, inventory of land parcels and data analysis. Contributions from widely known experts in these fields address such topics as coordinate systems, coordinate transformations, computer architecture, operating systems and database structures. From CRC Press, 2010.

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