Author: Felix Webster McBrydePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Map projection
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Equal-area Projections for World Statistical Maps
Author: Felix Webster McBrydePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Map projection
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Geocomputation with R
Author: Robin LovelacePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351396900
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Geocomputation with R is for people who want to analyze, visualize and model geographic data with open source software. It is based on R, a statistical programming language that has powerful data processing, visualization, and geospatial capabilities. The book equips you with the knowledge and skills to tackle a wide range of issues manifested in geographic data, including those with scientific, societal, and environmental implications. This book will interest people from many backgrounds, especially Geographic Information Systems (GIS) users interested in applying their domain-specific knowledge in a powerful open source language for data science, and R users interested in extending their skills to handle spatial data. The book is divided into three parts: (I) Foundations, aimed at getting you up-to-speed with geographic data in R, (II) extensions, which covers advanced techniques, and (III) applications to real-world problems. The chapters cover progressively more advanced topics, with early chapters providing strong foundations on which the later chapters build. Part I describes the nature of spatial datasets in R and methods for manipulating them. It also covers geographic data import/export and transforming coordinate reference systems. Part II represents methods that build on these foundations. It covers advanced map making (including web mapping), "bridges" to GIS, sharing reproducible code, and how to do cross-validation in the presence of spatial autocorrelation. Part III applies the knowledge gained to tackle real-world problems, including representing and modeling transport systems, finding optimal locations for stores or services, and ecological modeling. Exercises at the end of each chapter give you the skills needed to tackle a range of geospatial problems. Solutions for each chapter and supplementary materials providing extended examples are available at https://geocompr.github.io/geocompkg/articles/.
Flattening the Earth
Author: John P. SnyderPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226767477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Cartographers have long grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem, mapmakers have created map projections. This work discusses and illustrates the known map projections from before 500BC to the present, with facts on their origins and use.
Choosing a Map Projection
Author: Miljenko LapainePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319518356
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
This book offers a much-needed critical approach to the intelligent use of the wide variety of map projections that are rapidly and inexpensively available today. It also discusses the distortions that are immanent in any map projection. A well-chosen map projection is one in which extreme distortions are smaller than those in any other projection used to map the same area and in which the map properties match its purpose. Written by leading experts in the field, including W. Tobler, F.C. Kessler, S.E. Battersby, M.P. Finn, K.C. Clarke, V.S. Tikunov, H. Hargitai, B. Jenny and N. Frančula. This book is designed for use by laymen. The book editors are M. Lapaine and E.L. Usery, Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively, of the ICA Commission on Map Projections for the period 2011-2015.
Special Publications
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Special Publication
Author: The American Journal of Science
Author: An Evaluation of the "Morskoi Atlas" (with Translations from Volumes I and II)
Author: Harold W. DubachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publications of the Coast and Geodetic Survey
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charts
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Author: