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Global Warming : The Complete Briefing
This book contains on the phenomenon of global warming. It explains what it is, how it works, and the current and future impacts of global warming. Also included is a glossary for technical terms and a subject index.
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Oxford Atlas of the World
This Atlas is separated into several sections. These areas of interest include world statistics, Introduction to World Geography, city maps, world maps, and an index. The foreword gives a brief introduction to each section.
Basic cartography for students and technicians
This volume includes information concerning topographic maps, topographic information systems and the present status of world topographic mapping.
Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy
This resource includes a background of information about cartography, place-names, Vinland mapping, risk maps and environmental hazards, and geopolitics.
Geographical Information Systems and Computer Cartography
This title includes the origins and applications of cartography, concepts and spatial models, GIS functionality, a background on digitizing, database management systems, computer data storage, and more. This resource includes a reference list and an index.
The Mapmakers
This resource gives a history and biographical information about several important geographers and their philosophies. It also includes bibliographic notes and an index.
Multimedia Cartography
This volume includes an overview of theories and issues that are related to cartography. Also included is a historic perspective and elements of multimedia cartography, how multimedia cartography is developed and used today, and software issues pertaining to multimedia cartography. An index is included.
Web Cartography: Developments and Prospects
This resource discusses the need for web cartography, the trends and uses of web mapping, the principles of cartography, publishing issues, the effects of tourism and weather on web mapping, and the outlook of web mapping. This resource includes an index.
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Hammond World Atlas
This atlas is broken down into several sections. There are sections on dealing with maps, a quick reference guide for countries around the world, global relationships, the physical world, and maps of the world, which is the bulk of the atlas. The final section deals with statistical tables and includes an index with 115,000 entries.
The Macmillan World Atlas
Contained in this atlas is a prologue with map keys, explanation of map symbols, and map samples. Followed by this are sections with cartographic information, geographic information, and maps for the World, North and Middle America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Oceania, Africa, and the United States and Southern Canada. The last section included is an index.
Oxford Dictionary of the World
This dictionary contains around 12,000 entries. "In a simple A to Z format it comprises topographical descriptions of places in every country of the world, descriptions of peoples, languages, and religions, and definitions of selected geographical and environmental terms." Also included are appendices and tables containing "reference data relating to some 5,000 locations," written in a "in a straightforward readable style with the minimum of symbols and abbreviations, and a number of maps are included as an aid to spatial reference."
Rand McNally Millennium World Atlas
This atlas contains regional maps of the world, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Oceania, North American, and South America. Also included are metropolitan area maps for the world's most populous and important cites, and world information tables with statistical information about population and political information. The last section contains a glossary and an index.
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Adjustment computations : Statistics and Least Squares in Surveying and GIS
In this book you can find out about the statistical and mathematical side of GIs It has information divided into the following sections: Measurements and Their Analysis, Random Error Theory, Confidence Intervals and Statistical Testing, Propagation of Random Errors in Indirectly Measured Quantities, Error Propagation in Angle and Distance Measurements, Error Propagation in Traverse Surveys, Error Propagation in Elevation Determination, Weights of Observations, Principles of Least Squares, Adjustment of Level Nets, Precisions of Indirectly Determined Quantities, Adjustment of Horizontal Surveys, Trilateration, Triangulation, Traverses and Networks, Adjustment of GPs Networks, Coordinate Transformations, Error Ellipse, Constraint Equations, Blunder Detection in Horizontal Survey Networks, General Least-Squares Method, and Computer Optimization. Also included are a bibliography and an index.
Practical Handbook of Digital Mapping: Terms and Concepts
"This handbook is a reference work explaining a selection of the highly technical language, both specific terms and abstract concepts, of digital mapping." The handbook includes a number of useful features, such as drawing on several approaches to digital mapping, an "alphabetical organization of terms and concepts," showing a "strong emphasis on basic map making principles," the inclusion of a case study, and "a unique collection of references to the GIs literature." Also included are bibliographical references and an index.
Practical Handbook of Spatial Statistics
This handbook includes bibliographical references and an index. The chapters of this book cover the areas of visualization of spatial dependence, spatial autocorrelation, spatial sampling, guidelines for specifying the geographic weights matrix contained in spatial statistical models, aggregation effects in geo-referenced data, implementing spatial statistics on parallel computers, spatial statistics and GIs applied to internal migration, spatial statistical modeling of regional fertility rates, urban population density models, and analysis of variance of agronomic field trials.
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Essentials of Oceanography
Included in this book is an introduction explaining oceanography followed by chapters dealing with the history of oceanography, the origin of the ocean and its provinces, tectonics and the ocean, marine sediments, properties of water, air-sea interaction, ocean circulation, waves, tides, coastal geology, the coastal ocean, the marine habitat, biological productivity and energy transfer, animals of the pelagic environment, and animals of the benthic environment. The last part of the book contains appendixes, a glossary of technical terms, and an index.
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Images of the Earth : A Guide to Remote Sensing
This book addresses the geographical problems of earth, current and future, and ties them to the field of remote sensing. It shows how to get remote sensing information, how to interpret it, and how to use it. It also covers operational issues and contains a glossary for technical terms and a subject index.
The Remote Sensing Data Book
"Organized as a dictionary, [this book] contains over 700 alphabetically-arranged and cross-referenced entries on how remote sensing works, what kinds of data are available, and the large number of satellites and instruments from which the information is obtained. As well as short technical definitions, it also includes longer essays and reviews to give an overview of the subject."
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Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather v.1-2
This encyclopedia was "deliberately designed to encompass [a] wide range of natural scientific subjects, as well as the social sciences that have contributed to the understanding of both the causes of weather and climate change and their effects on environment and society. No longer is the weather simply about clouds, rain, and temperature; it is about biomes, fuels forested area, oceans, glaciers, historic events, exotic species, economic opportunities, and new energy systems. All such subjects are treated in these volumes." Volume 2 includes a glossary and an index.
The Weather Almanac Ninth Edition
This almanac is "a comprehensive complement to usual sources of day-to-day weather information in newspapers, radio, and television information. This newly revised edition of The Weather Almanac makes available to you a wide range of maps, charts, and safety rules based upon past records, research and experience." There are separate sections here "devoted to tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms and lightning, flash floods, and winter storms, among others, and have been edited using materials from the National Weather Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Geological Survey, among other agencies, to serve as a popular basic reference for severe weather and extreme conditions. Official records and statistics are included wherever they are useful and available."
Weather America: a thirty year summary of statistical weather data and rankings
"Weather America is a new reference source which provides key climatological data for over 4,000 places in the United States. Based on original work with Federal government weather station data tapes, Weather America is designed to provide a comprehensive single-volume handbook that is both easy to use and up-to-date." Information is presented for each state, and a United States Rankings section is also included.
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