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    Agricultural Drought in Slovakia: An Impact Assessment : NDVI and Satellite Based Data (2020)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Agriculture. ; Climatology. ; Environment. ; Geography. ; Ecology . ; Geographical Information System. ; Agriculture. ; Climate Sciences. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Regional Geography. ; Ecology.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction/motivation -- 2. State of the art -- 3. Material and methods -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- References.
    Abstract: This book gives an insight into the evaluation of drought in Slovakia and provides an assessment of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a method suitable for an evaluation of drought in agricultural land. Dry seasons in the time series from 1960 to 2014 were determined according to the monthly Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI). The field research was carried out on 12 sites including western Slovakia, Prešov, Trnava and Nitra regions. Data collected from satellite imagery, climate data analyses and drought indices was analysed to determine the value of NDVI as an evaluation tool.
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    Pages: IX, 90 p. 75 illus., 69 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030420611
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42061-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42061-1
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    Digital Cultural Heritage (2020)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Cultural property. ; Multimedia systems. ; Geographical Information System. ; Cultural Heritage. ; Multimedia Information Systems.
    Description / Table of Contents: Augmenting Network Analysis with Linked Data for Humanities Research -- A Memorial Design Pattern Catalogue for commemorative digital culture -- Annotation in Digital Humanities -- Establishment of a complex database for the study of cultural her-itage through the reading and analysis of the traditional architecture of Upper Kama -- Urban History Research and Discovery in the Age of Digital Repositories. A Report about Users and Requirements -- Digital Infrastructures for Digital Humanities in International Textbook Research.-Digital preservation of cultural heritage for small institutions -- Body As Echoes: Cyber Archiving of Buddhist Deities In the Cave Temples of China -- A Multivariate Use of Digital Cultural Heritage: Online Resources for Archaeology in the DBAS – MUSINT Websites -- Rebuilding the Past: 3D Reconstruction and BIM Analysis of a Neolithic House at La Draga -- 3D Modeling applications to terracotta figurines from Plakomenos, Greece -- Virtual Collection of Cuneiform Tablets as a Complex Multilevel System with Interdisciplinary Content -- The Potentials of the Digital Cultural Heritage: A Best practice Example of Presentation and Use. The Digital Representation of the Hans Gross Kriminalmuseum -- Planning for the End from the Start: an Argument for Digital Stewardship, Long-Term Thinking and Alternative Capture Approaches for Digital Content -- Semantic Data-Modelling and Long-term Interpretability of Cultural Heritage Data – Three Case Studies -- From classic (analogue) to digital forms of cultural heritage protection in Poland -- From classic (analogue) to digital forms of cultural heritage protection in Poland -- Libraries, Archives, and Museums Interwoven in the Digital South: From a Paucity of Resources to Data Richness for Understanding the South Asian Subcontinent -- Cultural Heritage digital data: future and ethics -- The Cartography Project: towards a relational form of documentation, the case of participatory art practices in museums and art galleries -- Digitization of old maps and possible on-line tools for their use.-efoto Hamburg: From Image Data to a Digitally Mediated Cultural Heritage Process -- 3D sketching of the fortified entrance of the Citadel of Aleppo from a few sightseeing photos.-The integrated survey of the Pergmum by Nicola Pisano in the cathedral of Pisa -- Virtual representation of archaeological stratigraphy. 3D modeling and interactive presentation of the late roman towers (Archaeological Museum , Milan) -- Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata -- Gamification in cultural heritage: A tangible user interface game for learning about local heritage -- Quasi–Mixed Reality in Digital Cultural Heritage. Combining 3D Reconstructions with Real Structures on Location – the Case of Ancient Phalasarna -- Digitization of Acoustic Heritage in a service of Protection, Research and Promotion of European Cultural Heritage.
    Abstract: This book provides an overview of various application spheres and supports further innovations needed in information management and in the processes of knowledge generation. The professions, organizations and scientific associations involved are unusually challenged by the complexity of the data situation. Cartography has always been the central field of application for georeferencing digital cultural heritage (DCH) objects. It is particularly important in enabling spatial relation analysis between any number of DCH objects or of their granular details. In addition to the pure geometric aspects, the cognitive relations that lead to knowledge representation and derivation of innovative use processes are also of increasing importance. Further, there is a societal demand for spatial reference and analytics (e.g. the extensive use of cognitive concepts of "map" and "atlas" for a variety of social topics in the media). There is a huge geometrical-logical-cognitive potential for complex, multimedia, digital-cultural-heritage databases and stakeholders expect handling, transmission and processing operations with guaranteed long-term availability for all other stakeholders. In the future, whole areas of digital multimedia databases will need to be processed to further our understanding of historical and cultural contexts. This is an important concern for the information society and presents significant challenges for cartography in all these domains. This book collects innovative technical and scientific work on the entire process of object digitization, including detail extraction, archiving and interoperability of multimedia DCH data.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: VII, 447 p. 192 illus., 148 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030152000
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15200-0
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15200-0
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  • 3
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    Microwave Remote Sensing Tools in Environmental Science (2020)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Telecommunication. ; Sustainability. ; Environmental management. ; Environment. ; Geographical Information System. ; Microwaves, RF Engineering and Optical Communications. ; Sustainability. ; Environmental Management. ; Environmental Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Basic Concepts of Microwave Radiometry -- 2 Remote Sensing Technologies and Data Processing Algorithms -- 3 Constructive Method of Vegetation Microwave Monitoring -- 4 Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture -- 5 Vegetation Screening Effect in the Remote Sensing Monitoring -- 6 Microwave Tools for the Diagnostics of Forest Fires -- 7. Space Methods and Monitoring Tools for the Investigation of Aquatic Systems. -- 8 Microwave Remote Sensing Monitoring and Global Climate Change Problems -- 9 Global Climate Monitoring with Microwave Measurements -- References -- Index.
    Abstract: This book gives new insight to the study of the global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics and microwave remote sensing tools together with the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring. The main advantage of this book consists in the accumulation of the interdisciplinary scientific knowledge for the parameterization of the global biogeochemical cycles and other environmental processes in the context of globalization and sustainable development. In this regard, the crucial global problems of the dynamics of the climate-nature-society system have been considered and the key problems of ensuring its sustainable development have been addressed. An analysis of the present trend in changing ecological systems has been discussed, including different types of forest ecosystems and ocean aquatories. The emphasis has been given to the accomplishment of the global geoinformation monitoring, which could provide a reliable control of the environmental processes development with reliable prognostic estimates of the consequences of human activities. A new approach to the numerical modelling of the climate-nature-society system has been presented and demonstrative results have been given about the modelling of the dynamics of this system‟s characteristics, in cases of realization of some scenarios of the anthropogenic impacts to the biogeochemical cycles, the land ecosystems and oceans. Methods and algorithms for the big data manipulation and processing in the remote sensing environmental monitoring systems have been described.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XXIII, 468 p. 139 illus., 43 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030457679
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45767-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-45767-9
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  • 4
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    ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online : Applications in Water and Environmental Sciences (2023)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Environment. ; Geography. ; Geographical Information System. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction to ArcGISPro -- Chapter 2: Data Classification and Layout in ArcGISPro -- Chapter 3: Data Acquisition -- Chapter 4: Coordinate Systems and Projections -- Chapter 5: Working with Geodatabase -- Chapter 6: Data Editing and Topology -- Chapter 7: Geoprocessing -- Chapter 8: Site Suitability and Data Modelling -- Chapter 9: Geocoding -- Chapter 10: Working with Raster -- Chapter 11: Spatial Interpolation -- Chapter 12: Watershed Delineation -- Chapter 13: Special Statistics -- Chapter 14: Network Analyst -- Chapter 15: 3-D Analyst -- Chapter 16: ArcGIS Online and Web Maps.
    Abstract: This textbook serves as a practical guide for undergraduate and graduate students in geology, hydrology, ecology, and environmental sciences, teaching them applied GIS techniques. Presented as a step-by-step tutorial across seventeen chapters, the book starts with the fundamentals of GIS and progresses to real-life examples from geology and water resources. The focus is on ESRI's ArcGIS Pro, covering various tools for spatial, geostatistical, network, and 3-D analysis. Additionally, it explores ArcGIS Online and working with web apps like Web Map, StoryMaps, and GEO App. GIS applications, especially in water and environmental problem-solving, are rapidly growing worldwide. The demand for GIS experts utilizing spatial analysis in environmental science remains high. This textbook equips users with the necessary knowledge to become effective mappers and spatial analysts in the fields of environment, geosciences, and water resources, employing the latest state-of-the-art methodology. Each chapter provides exercises and supplementary materials available for download on SpringerLink, along with additional links for further learning opportunities.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIX, 424 p. 669 illus., 653 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031422270
    Series Statement: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42227-0
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-42227-0
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  • 5
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    Remote Sensing and GIScience : Challenges and Future Directions (2021)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Physical geography. ; Atmospheric science. ; Environment. ; Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Geographical Information System. ; Earth System Sciences. ; Atmospheric Science. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Section 1 General -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Challenges and Future Directions in Remote Sensing and GIScience -- Section II Challenges in Sustainable Natural Resources Management -- Chapter 2: Environmental and Livelihood Impact Assessment of 2013 Flash Flood in Alakananda and Mandakini River Valley, Uttarakhand (India) using Environmental Evaluation System and Geospatial Techniques -- Chapter 3: Assessment of Vegetation Vigor using Integrated Synthetic Aperture Radars -- Chapter 4: Landslide Susceptibility Mapping using Bivariate Frequency Ratio Model and Geospatial Techniques: A Case from Karbi Anglong West District in ASSAM, India -- Chapter 5: Retreating Glacier Dynamics over the last quarter of a century at Uttarakhand Region using optical Sensors Time Series Data -- Section III Remote Sensing and GIScience in Urban Growth Management -- Chapter 6: Studying the Impact of Urbanization on HYV Rice Fields at a Local Level using Fine Resolution Temporal RISAT-1 Datasets -- Chapter 7: Identification of Impervious Built-up Surface Features using Resources at 2 LISS-III based Novel Optical Built-up Index -- Chapter 8: Assessment of Building Subsidence in Hanoi Urban Area from 2011 to 2014 by high resolution Radar satellite images -- Chapter 9: Land Use/Land Cover Mapping for Sustainable Land Resources Development of Hisar District, Haryana, India -- Section IV Challenges and Future Directions in GIScience -- Chapter 10 A Spatial Investigation of the Feasibility of Solar Resource Energy Potential in Planning the Solar Cities of INDIA -- Chapter 11 Mapping Rice Growth Stages Employing MODIS NDVI and ALOS AVNIR-2 -- Chapter 12 Habitat Suitability Mapping of Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) in the Sariska Tiger Reserve (India) using a GIS-based Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process -- Chapter 13 Estimation of Air Pollution Using Regression Modelling Approach for Mumbai Region Maharashtra, India -- Chapter 14 Mapping of Agriculture Productivity Variability for the SAARC Nations year 2050 -- Section V GIScience for Revolution in Science and Society -- Chapter 15 Future Direction of GIScience for Revolution in Science and Society over the Past Twenty Years.
    Abstract: This book covers several themes related to forestry, agriculture, water, soil, urban, and atmospheric research. GIScience technology systems have increased in significance in recent decades and have the ability to acquire information at ground level with a higher spectral resolution using a field radio-spectrometer, which is a great improvement compared to other remote sensing systems. GIScience technology systems are widely used for solving and understanding the concept of forestry, crop, water resources, and related research themes. This book aims to advance the scientific understanding of GIScience technology and applications. The chapters present GIScience data integration with other sources such as LiDAR, Multi-spectral data and their applications in forestry, crop assessment, soil assessment, mineral mapping and related themes. The book will be of interest to geospatial experts, modellers, foresters, agricultural scientists, hyperspectral remote sensing and space community, ecologists and conservation communities, environmental consultants, big data compilers, and computing experts. .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XII, 272 p. 95 illus., 88 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030550929
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55092-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55092-9
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    Information Fusion and Intelligent Geographic Information Systems : Computational and Algorithmic Advances (IF & IGIS’2019) (2020)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Computational intelligence. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Environmental monitoring. ; Geographical Information System. ; Computational Intelligence. ; Artificial Intelligence. ; Urban Sociology. ; Environmental Monitoring.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1-Advances in Intelligent Geographic Information Systems -- Part 2-Spatial Algorithms and Computations -- Part 3-IGIS Integration with Acoustic and Remote Sensing -- Part 4-Information Technologies: Modern Approach to Evolution of Methods of Obtaining Knowledge About Controlled Processes -- Part 5-IGIS for Urban and Land-based Research.
    Abstract: This book gathers the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium “Information Fusion and Intelligent Geographic Information Systems 2019” (IF&IGIS'2019), which was held in St. Petersburg, Russia from May 22 to 24, 2019. The goal of the symposium was to provide a forum for exchange among leading international scholars in the fields of spatial data, information integration and Intelligent Geographic Information Systems (IGIS). The symposium was an opportunity to discuss sound and effective lines of modeling in the fusion of spatial data and information within the broader scope of intelligent GIS. The topics of the 2019 Symposium essentially fall into three broad categories of developments aimed at leveraging the power of spatial information, namely: artificial intelligence; algorithmic and computations processes; and data-informed simulation models. All papers collected here present compelling, cutting-edge research on cloud computing, deep learning, visual analytics, and large-scale optimization. They discuss information fusion and intelligent GIS research in the context of surface and sub-surface maritime activities, port asset management, land-based trip and travel planning, smart city and e-government, emergency management, and environmental monitoring. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals working in GIS, remote sensing, and cloud computing.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: X, 191 p. 102 illus., 88 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030316082
    Series Statement: Advances in Geographic Information Science,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31608-2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31608-2
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    Remote Sensing Land Surface Changes : The 1981-2020 Intensive Global Warming (2022)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Environmental monitoring. ; Physical geography. ; Environment. ; Geographical Information System. ; Environmental Monitoring. ; Earth System Sciences. ; Environmental Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Why this Topic? -- Chapter 2-Global Warming Impact on Earth Systems -- Chapter 3-The IPCC Reports on Global Warming and Land Changes -- Chapter 4.NOAA Operational Environmental Satellites for Earth Monitoring -- Chapter 5-New Remote Sensing Vegetation Health Technology -- Chapter 6-Cause of Climate Warming -- Chapter 7- Land Cover Changes from Intensive Climate Warming -- Chapter 8-Global Warming Crop Yield and Food Security -- Chapter 9-Remote Sensing Malaria During Global Warming -- Chapter 10-Malaria Performance Trend During 1981-2022 -- Chapter 11-Remote Sensing Drought Watch and Food Security -- Chapter 12-Has Drought Intensified During 1981-2021 Global Warming?
    Abstract: This book discusses the detrimental consequences of climate-related land changes over a 40-year period between 1981 and 2020, and focuses on how climate warming is deteriorating the agricultural system due to excessive heat, lack of moisture and more intensive and widespread droughts leading to a reduction of agricultural production. Most of the existing literature on the unfavourable consequences of global warming for land are based on a relatively short period of weather station data, covering local land areas with limited networks and monitoring parameters. These concerns have led to the use of satellite data, whose measurements are controlled by such vegetation characteristics as chlorophyll, carotenoids, moisture contents in the plants and temperature inside the vegetation community. Therefore, the discussion of this book is completely based on high-resolution global land surface measurements by the sensors on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) operational afternoon polar-orbiting satellites. The book also focuses on understanding climate change impacts on land changes where humans are living, and combines biophysically-grounded methods and the 40-year data to develop models for monitoring large-scale Earth warming impacts on land and for timely prediction of climate consequences for humans. These 40-year trends in land characteristics will help to better inform the assessment of potential changes in the future and how to reach human sustainability. The book will of interest to scientists using satellite remote sensing to track climate change impacts on land over time, as well as students and researchers in climatology and environmental sustainability. .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: IX, 462 p. 159 illus., 126 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030968106
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96810-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96810-6
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    Metrics That Make a Difference : How to Analyze Change and Error (2022)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Statistics . ; Computer science Mathematics. ; Mathematical statistics. ; Functions of complex variables. ; Algorithms. ; Geographical Information System. ; Statistics in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. ; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science. ; Several Complex Variables and Analytic Spaces. ; Algorithms.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Binary Variable Versus Binary Variable -- Chapter 2: Binary Variable Versus Rank Variable -- Chapter 3: Application of the Total Operating Characteristic -- Chapter 4: Categorical Variable Versus Categorical Variable -- Chapter 5: Application to Categorical Error Assessment with Sampling -- Chapter 6: Multiple Spatial Resolutions for Categorical Variables -- Chapter 7: Application to Categorical Temporal Change -- Chapter 8: Interval Variable Versus Interval Variable -- Chapter 9: Application to Interval Temporal Change -- Chapter 10: Indices of Agreement -- Chapter 11: Vector Variable Versus Vector Variable -- Chapter 12: Commandments to Avoid Deadly Sins.
    Abstract: Your government warns that 10% of your neighbors have a deadly contagious virus. The producer of a diagnostic test advertises that 90% of its tests are correct for any population. The test indicates that you have the virus. This book’s author claims your test has a 50% chance of being false, given your test’s result. Who do you believe? This book gives you insights necessary to interpret metrics that make a difference in life’s decisions. This book gives methods and software that are essential to analyse change and error. Change describes a phenomenon across time points. Error compares diagnoses with the truth. Other texts give insufficient attention to these topics. This book’s novel ideas dispel popular misconceptions and replace previous methods. The author uses carefully designed graphics and high school mathematics to communicate easily with college students and advanced scientists. Applications include but are not limited to Remote Sensing, Land Change Science, and Geographic Information Science. “A wide range of tools to aid understanding of land cover and its change has been used but scientific progress has sometimes been limited through misuse and misunderstanding. Professor Pontius seeks to rectify this situation by providing a book to accompany the researcher’s toolbox. Metrics That Make a Difference addresses basic issues of relevance to a broad community in a mathematically friendly way and should greatly enhance the ability to elicit correct information. I wish this book existed while I was a grad student.” – Giles Foody, Professor of Geographical Information Science, The University of Nottingham “Metrics That Make a Difference provides a comprehensive synthesis of over two decades of work during which Dr. Pontius researched, developed, and applied these metrics. The book meticulously and successfully guides the reader through the conceptual basis, computations, and proper interpretation of the many metrics derived for different types of variables. The book is not just a mathematical treatise but includes practical guidance to good data analysis and good science. Data scientists from many fields of endeavor will benefit substantially from Dr. Pontius’ articulate review of traditionally used metrics and his presentation of the innovative and novel metrics he has developed. While reading this book, I had multiple ‘aha’ moments about metrics that I shouldn't be using and metrics that I should be using instead.” – Stephen Stehman, Distinguished Teaching Professor, State University of New York.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XXI, 117 p. 17 illus., 16 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030707651
    Series Statement: Advances in Geographic Information Science,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70765-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-70765-1
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    The Southernmost End of South America Through Cartography : Tierra del Fuego, the South Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica from the 16th to 19th Century (2021)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Latin America History. ; Human geography. ; Cultural geography. ; Economic geography. ; Geographical Information System. ; Latin American History. ; Human Geography. ; Social and Cultural Geography. ; Economic Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. The first territorial incorporation of the southern lands and seas in modern cartography -- Chapter 2. The cartographic construction of a South Atlantic region: geopolitical and economic interests -- Chapter 3. Southern Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, the South Atlantic Ocean and the Antarctic lands within global strategies -- Chapter 4. Conclusions -- Sources and Bibliography.
    Abstract: This volume describes the construction of the territorial identity of the southern end of South America and analyzes the cartographic territorialization of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the “Terra Australis” continent. Different spatial representations and territorial nature coexisted in this process as a result of the spatial interpretation and value modes as well as the projects and strategies of various actors. The book discusses the formal and symbolic incorporation to the Spanish dominion and its inclusion in the imperial design built over a new image of the world. Examining Jesuit cartography it considers both the indigenous territoriality and the dynamics of relations between natural and social components in the continental hinterland. The process of cartographic differentiation for this southern Atlantic region is analyzed in the framework of early Antarctic exploration and competing use of navigation routes and maritime resources. The book emphasizes the role geopolitical and economic interests play in these developments. The formation of territorialities of various origins has particular contents and logic, which are built upon imaginary subordination to political and economic interests. Cartographic language in the 19th century, associated with political and commercial motivations and the (British) imperial ideology, stimulated the territorial expansion. The book argues why in the late 1800's this was an important factor in the integration process of the southern indigenous territories and the national territoriality.
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    Pages: VIII, 180 p. 66 illus., 61 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030658793
    Series Statement: The Latin American Studies Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65879-3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65879-3
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    Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar : Principles and Application (2021)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Signal processing. ; Science Study and teaching. ; Agriculture. ; Forestry. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Geographical Information System. ; Signal, Speech and Image Processing . ; Science Education. ; Agriculture. ; Forestry. ; Urban Sociology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- List of Symbols -- Chapter 1. Basic Principles of SAR Polarimetry (C. Lopez-Martinez, and E. Pottier) -- Chapter 2. Forest Applications (K. P. Papathanassiou, S. R. Cloude, M. Pardini, M. J. Quiñones, D. Hoekman, L. Ferro-Famil, D. Goodenough, H. Chen, S. Tebaldini, M. Neumann, L. M. H. Ulander, M. J. Soja) -- Chapter 3. Agriculture and Wetlands Applications (J. M. Lopez Sanchez, J. D. Ballester Berman, F. Vicente Guijalba, S. R. Cloude, H. McNairn, J. Shang, H. Skriver, T. Jagdhuber, I. Hajnsek, E. Pottier, C. Marechal, L. Hubert-Moy, S. Corgne, S. Wdowinski, R. Touzi, G.) -- Chapter 4. Cryosphere Applications (I. Hajnsek, G. Parrella, A. Marino, T. Eltoft, M. Necsoiu, L. Eriksson, and M. Watanabe) -- Chapter 5. Urban Applications (E. Colin-Koeniguer, N. Trouve, Y. Yamaguchi, Y. Huang, L. Ferro-Famil, V.D. Navarro Sanchez, J.M. Lopez Sanchez, D. Monells, R. Iglesias, X. Fabregas, J. Mallorqui, A. Aguasca, and C. Lopez Martinez) -- Chapter 6. Ocean Applications (M. Migliaccio, F. Nunziata, A. Marino, C. Brekke, S. Skrunes) -- Appendix A - Test sites and Data Sets.
    Abstract: This open access book focuses on the practical application of electromagnetic polarimetry principles in Earth remote sensing with an educational purpose. In the last decade, the operations from fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar such as the Japanese ALOS/PalSAR, the Canadian Radarsat-2 and the German TerraSAR-X and their easy data access for scientific use have developed further the research and data applications at L,C and X band. As a consequence, the wider distribution of polarimetric data sets across the remote sensing community boosted activity and development in polarimetric SAR applications, also in view of future missions. Numerous experiments with real data from spaceborne platforms are shown, with the aim of giving an up-to-date and complete treatment of the unique benefits of fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar data in five different domains: forest, agriculture, cryosphere, urban and oceans.
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    Pages: XIV, 294 p. 205 illus., 134 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030565046
    Series Statement: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, 25
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56504-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-56504-6
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