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Small Satellites for Earth Observation: Selected Contributions

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

Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures: Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval

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

Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security: Research Frontiers and Future Challenges

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

GIS for Health and the Environment: Development in the Asia-Pacific Region

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

Geographic Hypermedia: Concepts and Systems

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

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

Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Concepts

Modeling Our World presents a complete survey of the geodatabase information model. Updated to reflect recent changes in ArcGIS software, this book explains how to use geodatabase structural...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

Lining Up Data in ArcGIS: A Guide to Map Projections

Data misalignment is one of the biggest issues faced by GIS users. A member of the ESRI support services team, author, Margaret Maher has closed more than 12,000 incidents relating to...More

Adjustment Computations: Spatial Data Analysis

No measurement is ever exact. Adjustment Computations updates a classic, definitive text on surveying with the latest methodologies and tools for analyzing and adjusting errors with a focus on...More