Mesev Integration of GIS and Remote Sensing

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-86411-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Mastering GIS: Technology, Applications & Management

In an age of unprecedented proliferation of data from disparatesources the urgency is to create efficient methodologies that canoptimise data combinations and at the same time solve increasinglycomplex application problems. Integration of GIS and RemoteSensing explores the tremendous potential that lies alongthe interface between GIS and remote sensing for activatinginteroperable databases and instigating information interchange. Itconcentrates on the rigorous and meticulous aspects of analyticaldata matching and thematic compatibility - the true roots of allbranches of GIS/remote sensing applications. However closerharmonization is tempered by numerous technical and institutionalissues, including scale incompatibility, measurement disparities,and the inescapable notion that data from GIS and remote sensingessentially represent diametrically opposing conceptual views ofreality.
The first part of the book defines and characterises GIS andremote sensing and presents the reader with an awareness of themany scale, taxonomical and analytical problems when attemptingintegration. The second part of the book moves on to demonstratethe benefits and costs of integration across a number of human andenvironmental applications.
This book is an invaluable reference for students andprofessionals dealing not only with GIS and remote sensing, butalso computer science, civil engineering, environmental science andurban planning within the academic, governmental andcommercial/business sectors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mesev, Victor