Maps & Web Mapping Access Code
Pearson Education Limited
9780321896827 (ISBN)
Maps and Web Mapping establishes an innovative, eText-only introduction to the history, principles, and current technologies used in mapping and cartography in a way that's never been done before. Created to work with resources in Mygeoscienceplace.com, this solution engages you with interactive tools, including MapMaster(TM) interactive maps, Google Earth(TM) exercises, lecture videos, Map Projection animations, and more. This affordable online-only solution seamlessly integrates narrative text with a dynamic, interactive media experience, creating a rich learning environment and working together to help you develop spatial reasoning skills and practice observation, experimentation, and critical thinking.
Key Topics: Why Maps?, The Figure of the Earth, Sizing Up Earth, Distorting the Globe, Coordinate Systems and Global Grids, Partitioning the Land, Cartometry: Position and Direction, Cartometry: Lines and Areas, Map Generalization, Positioning, Route Selection and Navigation, Location Based Services and Web Mapping, Mapping the Third Dimension, Representing Terrain with Contours, Landscape Features on Maps, Heights and Height Mapping, Features, Dimensions and Data Levels, Measuring Shape and Distribution, Networks, Special-Purpose Maps, Cartography's Sister Disciplines, Geobrowsing, How to Lie with Maps, Thinking Spatially
Market; Intended for those who wished to gain a basic understanding of cartography.
Keith C. Clarke received his PhD and MA from the University of Michigan (Analytical Cartography, Geography), and his BA from Middlesex Polytechnic, London (Geography and Economics). He is professor of geography at UC Santa Barbara, where he runs the state-of-the-art GIS lab and regularly teaches GIS and intro cartography. Keith was Chair of the Department 2001 to 2006. He was elected President of CaGIS in 2001, was selected as UCGIS Educator of the Year in 2002, and is a recipient of the 2005 John Wesley Powell Award, the USGS's highest award for achievement. In 2006, he became a Fellow of the ACSM, the Chair of the NAS Mapping Sciences Committee, and was appointed to the National Geographic Committee on Research and Exploration; in 2007, Keith received a UK Leverhulme Trust award and Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship. He has worked on numerous funded research projects, including: UCIME: An NSF-funded project with the University of California at Santa Barbara, the United States Geological Survey and the Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop an integrated modeling environment (IME) for the cross-disciplinary study of a wide range of questions pertaining to urban change Project Gigaopolis: A USGS and NSF funded project that explores growing urban structure containing billions of people worldwide. It extends and refines the SLEUTH urban and land use change model enabling predictions at regional, continental and eventually global scales. Project CORONA: NSF funded project that included: The first photo taken from a satellite; The first recovery of an object from space and the first in mid-air; The first mapping of Earth from space; The first use of multiple re-entry vehicles; The first space program to fly 100 missions NGA Uncertainty Project: Funded by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency and NSF, the goal of this Uncertainty in Geospatial Information Representation, Analysis, and Decision Support project was to improve the mechanisms by which users of the defense geospatial information infrastructure are made aware of the presence of uncertainty in data, and its implications for decision-making IGERT in Interactive Digital Multimedia: An NSF funded integrative graduate education and research traineeship program. Clarke is the Pearson GIS series editor, and is the author of scores of GIS, Remote Sensing, and mapping articles and chapters for various journals and books. He is the author of Pearson's Getting Started with GIS 5e.
| Verlagsort | Harlow |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 196 x 251 mm |
| Gewicht | 417 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| ISBN-13 | 9780321896827 / 9780321896827 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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