Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems

To conserve our natural assets - our green infrastructure - we need to map them, and plan for their protection.

Just as we manage our communities' built assets such as roads and buildings, we also need to manage our natural assets, such as rivers, wetlands, forests, and prairies that support key species. We need to know their extent, their condition, and whether they need to be protected or restored. Using geographic information system (GIS) technology, Green Infrastructure: Map and Plan the Natural World describes why and how to realize that vision for a connected,...

An international team of over 150 experts provide up-to-date satellite imaging and quantitative analysis of the state and damics of the glaciers around the world, and they provide an in-depth review if analysis methodologies. Includes an e-published supplement.

Global Land Ice Measurements from Space - Satellite Multispectral Imaging of Glaciers (GLIMS book for short) is the leading state-of-the-art technical and interpretive presentation of satellite image data and analysis of the changing state of the world's glaciers. The book is the most definitive, comprehensive product of a...

This volume contains selected and expanded contributions presented at the 3rd Symposium on Space Optical Instruments and Applications in Beijing, China June 28 - 29, 2016. This conference series is organised by the Sino-Holland Space Optical Instruments Laboratory, a cooperation platform between China and the Netherlands.

The symposium focused on key technological problems of optical instruments and their applications in a space context. It covered the latest developments, experiments and results regarding theory, instrumentation and applications in space optics. The book is split...

This book asks: What are the most suitable -mapping strategies- for detecting patterns of global dynamics?

It adopts a spatial perspective when trying to understand -Global Dynamics- - and sets out to revolutionise the concept of space as such. Spatial views - on levels of increasing abstraction, reflection and self-organisation - are developed along eight case studies including air emissions, environmental radioactivity, deforestation, energy from biomass, land use change, food supply, water quality and cooperative interdisciplinary learning for global change.

This book's...