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Manual of Geospatial Science and Technology

By Chris Rizos , Robert B. McMaster , John D. Bossler , John R. Jensen

Book information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0748409246, 0203343859
Open Library ID
OL7963706M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9921569 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
647\647
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Professionals in local and national government and in the private sector frequently need to draw on Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS), often in an integrated manner. This manual shows a hands-on operator how to work across the range of geospatial science and technology, whether as a user or as a contractor of services employing these technologies, and without either specialist education or substantial experience.The manual covers the fundamentals of each of these topical areas, providing the requisite mathematics, computer science and physics necessary to understand how the technologies work, assuming some elementary background in calculus and physics. It also shows how the technologies can be used together and focuses on their commonalities. A number of applications such as mapping and environmental modeling are presented, and a website accompanies the book.

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