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A Guide to Understanding Land Surveys

This basic introduction clearly explains the functions and procedures required in every survey (routine or otherwise), why it is done, and how it is accomplished. Readers will not only gain an...More

The KML Handbook: Geographic Visualization for the Web

KML began as the file format for Google Earth, but it has evolved into a full-fledged international standard for describing any geographic content - the "HTML of geography." It's already...More

Integration of GIS and Remote Sensing

In an age of unprecedented proliferation of data from disparate sources the urgency is to create efficient methodologies that can optimise data combinations and at the same time solve...More

Advances in 3D Geoinformation Systems (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

This book focuses on comparing several types of 3D models. Due to the rapid developments in sensor techniques a vast amount of 3D data is available. Effective algorithms for (semi) automatic...More

Spatial Data Modelling for 3D GIS

This book covers fundamental aspects of spatial data modelling specifically on the aspect of three-dimensional (3D) modelling and structuring. Realisation of true 3D GIS spatial system needs a...More

Installation Mapping Enables Many Missions: The Benefits of and Barriers to Sharing Geospatial Data Assets

This report assesses the effect of sharing installations and environment geospatial data assets across the Department of Defense Global Information Grid. The authors found that the assets...More

Research and Theory in Advancing Spatial Data Infrastructure Concepts

This scholarly anthology presents the latest research by renowned international experts and offers insights into possible directions in which spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) may be headed....More

Spatial Data Quality

As research in the geosciences and social sciences becomes increasingly dependent on computers, geographical information systems are becoming indispensable tools. This book covers many of the...More

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

From McGraw-Hill. 2006

Reactive Data Structures for Geographic Information Systems (Spatial Information Systems) (Hardcover)

This work is the first to describe techniques for the storage and manipulation of geographic data at multiple scales and in an integrated manner, thus avoiding the redundancies of other...More