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Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems: Applying the Technology to the Environment

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

Environmental Information Systems

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

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

Geographical Information and Climatology

This book includes two parts. The first part is more theoretical and general, and it covers fundamental principles: geospatial climate data measurement; spatial analysis, mapping and climate;...More

The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Make a Difference

Visually rich, up-to-date, and authoritative, The Atlas of Global Conservation is a premier resource for everyone concerned about the natural world. Drawing from the best data available, it is...More

Spatial Complexity, Informatics, and Wildlife Conservation

As Earth faces the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years, the present is a moment of tremendous foment and emergence in ecological science. With leaps in advances in ecological research...More

Ocean Globe

Ocean Globe focuses on bathymetry - the study of underwater depth of the third dimension - within the larger context of work being done by scientists and educators around the world. Each chapter...More

GIS, Environmental Modeling and Engineering, Second Edition

Spatial dimensions need to be properly captured if modelling and engineering techniques are to be successfully applied in addressing environmental problems. The links between the GIS that...More

Mapping Forestry

Mapping Forestry describes how GIS software supports the business of forestry in today's era of economic changes, increased global competition, and diminishing resources. In 20 scenarios from...More

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Towards a Global Licensing Framework for Geospatial Data

Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.