Author : United States. Federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on Digital Cartography. Standards Working Group
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Cartography
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 940114351X
This compilation probably looks like one of the craziest things a human being could spend his or her time on. Yet nobody would wonder at someone taking a short walk every day - after twenty five years that person would have covered a surprisingly long distance. This is exactly the story behind this list, which appeared first as a few pages within the directory StarGuides (or whatever name it had at that time) and as a distinct sister publication since 1990. The idea behind this dictionary is to offer astronomers and related space scientists practical assistance in decoding the numerous abbreviations, acronyms, contractions and symbols which they might encounter in all aspects of the vast range of their professional activities, including traveling. Perhaps it is a bit paradoxical, but if scientists quickly grasp the meaning of an acronym solely in their own specific discipline, they will probably encounter more difficulties when dealing with adjacent fields. It is for this purpose that this dictionary might be most often used. Scientists might also refer to this compilation in order to avoid identifying a project by an acronym which already has too many meanings or confused definitions.
Author : Michael Curry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2008-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134792379
By offering an understanding of Geographic Information Systems within the social, economic, legal, political and ethical contexts within which they exist, the author shows that there are substantial limits to their ability to represent the very objects and relationships, people and places, that many believe to be most important. Focusing on the ramifications of GIS usage, Digital Places shows that they are associated with far-reaching changes in the institutions in which they exist, and in the lives of those they touch. In the end they call for a complete rethinking of basic ideas, like privacy and intellectual property and the nature of scientific practice, that have underpinned public life for the last one hundred years.
Author : United States. Federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on Digital Cartography
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Cartography
ISBN :
Author : United States. Federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on Digital Cartography
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Cartography
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 1987
Category : GIS (Information retrieval system)
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Author : Wolfgang Kresse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540726802
Computer science provides a powerful tool that was virtually unknown three generations ago. Some of the classical fields of knowledge are geodesy (surveying), cartography, and geography. Electronics have revolutionized geodetic methods. Cartography has faced the dominance of the computer that results in simplified cartographic products. All three fields make use of basic components such as the Internet and databases. The Springer Handbook of Geographic Information is organized in three parts, Basics, Geographic Information and Applications. Some parts of the basics belong to the larger field of computer science. However, the reader gets a comprehensive view on geographic information because the topics selected from computer science have a close relation to geographic information. The Springer Handbook of Geographic Information is written for scientists at universities and industry as well as advanced and PhD students.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Acquisition of maps
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Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : H. Moellering
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 148329255X
Since the 1960's individuals and organisations throughout the world have been building geographic databases used in conjunction with geographic hardware and software systems to collect, analyse, display and archive digital data. Through the years it was recognised that efficiencies could be gained if the geographic database built by one group could be used by multiple users across different computer systems and formats. Therefore, it was acknowledged that spatial database transfer standards were needed to facilitate the exchange and transfer of digital geographic data.Throughout the 1980's several organisations worldwide began working on the problem of producing spatial database transfer standards. As this work was initiated, research workers began to informally compare notes and developments. The International Cartographic Association [ICA], recognising the worldwide importance of standards, organised a Standards Working Group. The initial goal of this working group was to produce a monograph reporting on the present state of development in digital database transfer standards.This book is a unique collection of reports by individual nations and international organisations that describe existing geographic standards and summarize efforts to develop geographic database transfer standards worldwide.
