Surveying and Mapping
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Cartography
ISBN :
Charting the Unknown
Author : Nicholas R. Chrisman
Publisher : Esri Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN :
Book Description
Many, like Chrisman, have since become leaders in GIS-related education, research, and software engineering. Illustrated with numerous maps, drawings, diagrams, and photos, Charting the Unknown's twelve chapters are supplemented with a CD that contains three historic short films showing animated visualization. In addition, the CD contains videotaped interviews and a speech featuring some of the Lab's key figures, including Allan Schmidt, former executive director of the Lab; Eric Teicholz, founder and president of Graphic Systems; Jack Dangermond, founder and president of ESRI; Scott Morehouse, director of software development at ESRI; as well as the author.
The Cost of Future Policy: Intertemporal Public Sector Balance Sheets in the G7
Author : Yugo Koshima
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1513573330
Book Description
This paper compiles the Intertemporal Public Sector Balance Sheets for all G7 countries and examines their relationship with government borrowing costs. In 2018, all G7 countries have negative Intertemporal Net Financial Worth (INFW), falling short of their intertemporal budget constraint. A decomposition of the evolution of INFW shows that short-term fluctuations are mainly driven by fiscal policy changes, while in the long run demographic changes and health and pension obligations play a larger role. We find that on average a 10 percentage point of GDP increase in INFW reduces the (future) 10-1 year sovereign yield curve spread by 2.8 basis points. This results suggest that financial markets pay attention to governments’ future policy obligations, in addition to its current assets and liabilities.
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea
Author : Robert Burleigh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1481416006
Book Description
"This illustrated biography shares the story of female scientist, Marie Tharp, a pioneering woman scientist and the first person to ever successfully map the ocean floor"--
Great Maps
Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1465435611
Book Description
The whole world is mapped out for your viewing pleasure in this captivating compendium, ranging from past to present through diverse themes of transport and technology to discoveries and development. Covering the classical maps of the ancient world and traveling through time to reach Google Earth in the 21st century, this unprecedented history of more than 60 maps opens up our planet as never before. Great Maps showcases early Medieval maps like including mappae mundi; iconic transport maps such as the London Underground; important travel maps including Dr. Livingstone's version of Africa; maps of natural wonders such as the ocean floor; and momentous moments including the marks on the Moon left by the lunar landings. There are maps that show the way to heaven, depict lands with no sunshine, and the mysterious home of "the people with no bowels" on this mind-blowing journey. Much more than just geographical data, maps are an accurate reflection of the culture and context of different time frames in history. British historian Jerry Brotton tells the amazing secret stories behind many of the most significant maps ever unearthed, revealing key features and innovative techniques in incredible detail. The unique insight into how mapmakers have expressed their world views results in this treasured book that makes a welcome addition to any bookshelf or home library.
Terra Forma
Author : Frederique Ait-Touati
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262046695
Book Description
Charting the exploration of an unknown world—our own—with a new cartography of living things rather than space available for conquest or colonization. This book charts the exploration of an unknown world: our own. Just as Renaissance travelers set out to map the terra incognito of the New World, the mapmakers of Terra Forma have set out to rediscover the world that we think we know. They do this with a new kind of cartography that maps living things rather than space emptied of life and available to be conquered or colonized. The maps in Terra Forma lead us inward, not off into the distance, moving from the horizon line of conventional cartography to the thickness of the ground, from the global to the local. Each map in Terra Forma is based on a specific territory or territories, and each tool, or model, creates a new focal point through which the territory is redrawn. The maps are “living maps,” always under construction, spaces where stories and situations unfold. They may map the Earth’s underside rather than its surface, suggest turning the layers of the Earth inside out, link the biological physiology of living inhabitants and the physiology of the land, or trace a journey oriented not by the Euclidean space of GPS but by points of life. These speculative visualizations can constitute the foundation for a new kind of atlas.
Public Sector Balance Sheet Strength and the Macro Economy
Author : Mr.Reza Yousefi
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1513508954
Book Description
This paper introduces concepts of public sector balance sheet (PSBS) strength, taking into account different aspects of what governments own in addition to what they owe. It develops measures of PSBS strength and investigates their macroeconomic implications. Empirical estimations show that in their pricing of sovereign bonds, financial markets account for government assets and net worth in addition to their liabilities. Furthermore, economies with stronger public sector balance sheets experience shallower recessions and recover faster in the aftermath of economic downturns. This faster return to growth can be explained by the greater space for countercyclical fiscal policy in countries with stronger balance sheets.
The Perforated Map
Author : Eléna Rivera
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 2011
Category :
ISBN : 9781848611603
Book Description
Poetry. Who guides us through the unknown? Who offers the keys? In THE PERFORATED MAP, Eléna Rivera's guide is language as she attempts to navigate the distances, the disturbances, the suggestions, the mistakes, the perforations. In these poems, language is the map, the matter that fills/affects the body, the organizing principle between the self and the world, and the forms that it gives rise to. The sentence is filled with holes. What is graspable between self and other? Is not all language in transit, moving in gradations of light, between knowing and the fuzzy conveyance shaped by words whose meaning is a matter of further adumbrations? How are we able to communicate our experience? How will understanding be sparked? What message is there for the poet/the reader? That is what is at stake in these poems, finding the word, the specific word, to illuminate the way, the experience of life, this moment, this time, this period of history.
The World
Author : Pam Meier
Publisher : Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Geography
ISBN : 9781557992772
Book Description
Contains a large collection of blank outline maps for every country in the world to print out for educational, school, or classroom use.
Mapping Men and Empire
Author : Richard Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1135636567
Book Description
First published in 1996. Adventure stories, produced and consumed in vast quantities in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, narrate encounters between Europeans and the non-European world. They map both European and non-European people and places. In the exotic, uncomplicated and malleable settings of stories like Robinson Crusoe, they make it possible to imagine, and to naturalise and normalise, identities that might seem implausible closer to home. This book discusses the geography of literature and looking at where adventure stories chart colonies and empires, projecting European geographical fantasies onto non-European, real geographies, including the Americas, Africa and Australasia.
