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“jim thatcher3”

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  • Communication and Control

    Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions

    by Robert MacDougall, Kevin Cummings, Vincenzo DeFlorio, Ryan Eanes, Robert Gehl, Zeke Kimball, Cameron Kunzelman, Karla Loya, Benjamin Morton, Kathleen Oswald0, Rachel Plotnick1, Madhusudan Raman2, Jim Thatcher3, Brett Lunceford4, R.E. Burnett5, Matthew Pittman6 ...
    Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions advocates a systems view of human communication in a time of intelligent, learning machines. This edited collection sheds new light on things as mundane yet still profoundly consequential (and seemingly “low-tech”) as push buttons, pagers, and telemarketing systems. Contributors also investigate aspects of “remote control” related to ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Thinking Big Data in Geography

    New Regimes, New Research

    Edited by Jim Thatcher, Andrew Shears, Josef Eckert ...
    Thinking Big Data in Geography offers a practical state-of-the-field overview of big data as both a means and an object of research, with essays from prominent and emerging scholars such as Rob Kitchin, Renee Sieber, and Mark Graham. Part 1 explores how the advent of geoweb technologies and big data sets has influenced some of geography’s major subdisciplines: urban politics and political economy, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Remote Sensing

    by Siamak Khorram, Frank H. Koch, Cynthia F. van der Wiele, Stacy A.C. Nelson ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Remote Sensing provides information on how remote sensing relates to the natural resources inventory, management, and monitoring, as well as environmental concerns. It explains the role of this new technology in current global challenges. "Remote Sensing" will discuss remotely sensed data application payloads and platforms, along with the methodologies involving image processing techniques as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Mapping Spatial Relations, Their Perceptions and Dynamics

    The City Today and in the Past

    Edited by Susanne Rau, Ekkehard Schönherr ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is the product of an eponymous workshop, which took place in Erfurt in May, 2012, and which has since then been supplemented with four further contributions. The topics focus on the potential mapping of perceived urban space and spatial hierarchies as a consequence of social usage (undertaken by a variety of active participants) together with spatio-temporal changes as a result of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) Products

    Algorithms, Validation and Analysis

    by Shunlin Liang, Xiaotong Zhang, Zhiqiang Xiao, Jie Cheng, Qiang Liu, Xiang Zhao ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes the algorithms, validation and preliminary analysis of the Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) products, a long-term, high-quality dataset that is now freely available worldwide to government organizations and agencies, scientific research institutions, students and members of the general public.The GLASS products include leaf area index, broadband albedo, broadband ... Read more

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  • Flood Control Management for the City and Surroundings of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    by Mashael Mohammed Al Saud ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    During the past years, Saudi Arabia has been affected by particularly severe torrential rains and floods. This book presents an in-depth and all-encompassing study on the floods that occurred in the Jeddah area in 2009 and 2011, including water-flow mechanisms, state-of-the-art techniques for flood assessment, flood control and appropriate management approaches. It highlights a number of methods ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Observing the Oceans in Real Time

    Edited by Amit Tandon, M. A. Atmanand, Eric D'Asaro, R. Venkatesan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides contributions from leading experts on the integration of novel sensing technologies to yield unprecedented observations of coupled biological, chemical, and physical processes in the ocean from the macro to micro scale. Authoritative entries from experts around the globe provide first-hand information for oceanographers and researchers looking for solutions to measurement ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Near-Space Remote Sensing

    Potential and Challenges

    by Wen-Qin Wang ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Near-space is defined as the atmospheric region from about 20 kilometer (km) altitude to 100 km altitude above the Earth’s surface. It has received much attention in recent years and several types of near-space vehicles are currently being studied, developed, or employed. “Near-Space Remote Sensing: Potential and Challenges” concentrates mainly on the role of near-space vehicles in bridging the ... Read more

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  • Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Including the Spatial Domain

    Edited by Steven M. de Jong, Freek D. van der Meer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Remote Sensing image analysis is mostly done using only spectral information on a pixel by pixel basis. Information captured in neighbouring cells, or information about patterns surrounding the pixel of interest often provides useful supplementary information. This book presents a wide range of innovative and advanced image processing methods for including spatial information, captured by ... Read more

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  • Developments in Multidimensional Spatial Data Models

    Edited by Alias Abdul Rahman, Pawel Boguslawski, Christopher Gold, Mohamad Nor Said ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents the latest research developments in geoinformation science, which includes all the sub-disciplines of the subject, such as: geomatic engineering, GIS, remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, digital cartography, etc. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Map Projections

    Cartographic Information Systems

    by Erik W. Grafarend, Rey-Jer You, Rainer Syffus ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In the context of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) the book offers a timely review of Map Projections. The first chapters are of foundational type. We introduce the mapping from a left Riemann manifold to a right one specified as conformal, equiaerial and equidistant, perspective and geodetic. In particular, the mapping from a Riemann manifold to a Euclidean manifold ("plane") and the design ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Flood Monitoring through Remote Sensing

    Edited by Alberto Refice, Annarita D'Addabbo, Domenico Capolongo ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is an overview of current state of the art about monitoring of inundation events through remote sensing. A complete approach to efficient and precise flood monitoring requires multiple fields of expertise, from image processing to hydrologic monitoring. This volume details the latest remote sensing techniques for flood monitoring and mapping, including use of optical data from ... Read more

    $98.99 USD