shopping cart
Save up to 30% on our Staff Picks
Call us: 800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Contributors | November 10, 2009

Zachary Lazar: IMG Evening's Empire

0 comments By Zachary Lazar

Without knowing it, I'd always had two unspoken arrangements with the world. The first was that I would not trouble it with unpleasant conversation... Continue »
  1. $17.49 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder

    Zachary Lazar

Coastal Systems and Continental Margins #4: Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems, Applying the Technology to the Environment

by Eugene Thomas Long

Coastal Systems and Continental Margins #4: Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems, Applying the Technology to the Environment Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

This volume comprises a collection of 40 chapters by experts dealing with the application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, cartography, visualisation and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to coastal and marine environments around the world. Aimed primarily at the practising marine and coastal zone manager, it provides an up-to-date examination of the application of geo-information and spatial technologies to a wide range of topics such as fisheries, coastal geomorphology, the use of remotely sensed imagery, coastal vegetation mapping, coastal pollution, landscape ecology, and decision support systems (DSS). Audience: This book should be useful to researchers, managers and practitioners at coastal organisations, agencies and research centers, as well as professionals in the marine and coastal GIS and remote sensing industry.

Synopsis:

This text provides an examination of the application of geo-information and spatial technologies to a wide range of topics such as fisheries, coastal geomorphology, the use of remotely sensed imagery, coastal vegetation mapping, coastal pollution, landscape ecology and decision support systems.
back to top

Table of Contents

From the contents:Part I: The Setting.- Part II: The Coastal Zone.- Part III: Example Applications.- Part IV: Habitat.- Part V: Technology.- Part VI: Geographic Information Systems and Decision Support Systems.- Part VII: Remote Sensing.- Part VIII: Developments and the Future.- Index.

back to top
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9780792356868
Subtitle:
Applying the Technology to the Environment
Editor:
Green, David R.
Editor:
King, Stephen D.
Editor:
Green, David R.
Author:
King, Stephen D.
Author:
Long, Eugene Thomas
Author:
Green, David R.
Editor:
King, Stephen D.
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
Location:
Dordrecht
Subject:
Remote Sensing
Subject:
Sailing - Navigation
Subject:
Geographic information systems
Subject:
Coastal zone management
Subject:
Earth Sciences - General
Subject:
Real Estate - General
Copyright:
2003
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
Remastered
Series:
Coastal Systems and Continental Margins
Series Volume:
no. B-1272v. 4
Publication Date:
March 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
616
Dimensions:
9.18x7.16x1.19 in. 2.73 lbs.
back to top

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.