Object Oriented Cartography

Author : Tania Rossetto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429794056

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Object-Oriented Cartography by Tania Rossetto Pdf

Object-Oriented Cartography provides an innovative perspective on the changing nature of maps and cartographic study. Through a renewed theoretical reading of contemporary cartography, this book acknowledges the shifted interest from cartographic representation to mapping practice and proposes an alternative consideration of the ‘thingness’ of maps. Rather than asking how maps map onto reality, it explores the possibilities of a speculative-realist map theory by bringing cartographic objects to the foreground. Through a pragmatic perspective, this book focuses on both digital and nondigital maps and establishes an unprecedented dialogue between the field of map studies and object-oriented ontology. This dialogue is carried out through a series of reflections and case studies involving aesthetics and technology, ethnography and image theory, and narrative and photography. Proposing methods to further develop this kind of cartographic research, this book will be invaluable reading for researchers and graduate students in the fields of Cartography and Geohumanities.

Author : Monica Wachowicz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203212394

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Object-Oriented Design for Temporal GIS by Monica Wachowicz Pdf

There has been an increasing demand in GIS for systems that support historical data: time-series data as well as mobility information. From a modelling perspective, there are advantages in integrating object-oriented analysis and design to databases as well as to visualisation capabilities of GIS. Object-Oriented Design for Temporal GIS explores the major components of the object-oriented analysis and design methods, how they can be used for modelling spatio-temporal data, and how these components are developed and maintained within a GIS. It also offers practical guidance to object-oriented methods by demonstrating the feasibility of applying such methods to issues involved in handling spatio-temporal data. The author demonstrates how this knowledge might be used in a wide range of applications such as political boundary record maintenance (historical data), disease incidence rate analysis in epidemics (diffusion rate), and environmental studies of climate change (time-series data). This understanding contributes to the development of theory in GIS and improves the design of GIS to support the modelling of semantics, space and time elements of geographical information.

Author : Thomas Blaschke,Stefan Lang,Geoffrey Hay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540770589

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Object-Based Image Analysis by Thomas Blaschke,Stefan Lang,Geoffrey Hay Pdf

This book brings together a collection of invited interdisciplinary persp- tives on the recent topic of Object-based Image Analysis (OBIA). Its c- st tent is based on select papers from the 1 OBIA International Conference held in Salzburg in July 2006, and is enriched by several invited chapters. All submissions have passed through a blind peer-review process resulting in what we believe is a timely volume of the highest scientific, theoretical and technical standards. The concept of OBIA first gained widespread interest within the GIScience (Geographic Information Science) community circa 2000, with the advent of the first commercial software for what was then termed ‘obje- oriented image analysis’. However, it is widely agreed that OBIA builds on older segmentation, edge-detection and classification concepts that have been used in remote sensing image analysis for several decades. Nevert- less, its emergence has provided a new critical bridge to spatial concepts applied in multiscale landscape analysis, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the synergy between image-objects and their radiometric char- teristics and analyses in Earth Observation data (EO).

Author : Christopher J. Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Geographic information systems
ISBN : 1869854128

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Object-oriented Programming, Database and GIS by Christopher J. Webster Pdf

Author : J-P Lagrange,R Weibel,Jean-Claude Muller
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000124019

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GIS And Generalisation by J-P Lagrange,R Weibel,Jean-Claude Muller Pdf

This text is the inaugural book in Taylor and Francis's GISDATA series, and is derived from the specialist workshop convened under the auspices of the European Science Foundation's GISDATA Scientific Programme. Generalisation is an integrating tool for the analysis and presentation of spatial data. Effective spatial data analysis requires multiple views of the world at various scales with different thematic layers of representation. Generalisation is a key mechanism in this process, as it filters out information which is required for particular scales or layers; hence it is critical to implement full and comprehensive generalisation capabilities in a GIS, something with which few current GIS are equipped.; This book overviews the core and as-yet unresolved issues surrounding the achievement of this goal, and presents various alternatives - both speculative views and practical examples - in the areas of automated generalisation, vis-a-vis problems such as object simplification and placement. At the same time it distinguishes between modelling with generalisation and graphical representation, and adopts a model-building perspective. It also describes artificial intelligence techniques for implementing automated generalised routines, and addresses issues of data quality and production.; The text is organized into six parts: an introduction; generic issue; object-orientated methods and knowledge-based modelling; knowledge acquisition and representation; data quality; and operation and implementation.

Author : R.J.A. Buhr,R.S. Casselman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474879789

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Use Case Maps for Object-oriented Systems by R.J.A. Buhr,R.S. Casselman Pdf

Author : Georg Gartner,Felix Ortag
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642032943

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Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe by Georg Gartner,Felix Ortag Pdf

The region of Central and Eastern Europe has a rich and long history in cart- raphy. Many important improvements in mapping and cartography have been proposed and performed by cartographers and researchers of that region. The long and outstanding history has led to a lively and vivid presence. Now contemporary methods for depicting the earth and its cultural and natural attributes are used. This book focuses on the contemporary activities in all major realms of cartography in Central and Eastern Europe. It covers aspects of theoretical, topographical, thematic and multimedia cartography, which have been presented at the frst Symposium on Cartography for Central and Eastern Europe, which took place from February 16th to 17th, 2009 in Vienna, Austria and was organized by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and the Vienna University of Technology. The symposium’s aim was to bring together cartographers, GI scientists and those working in related disciplines from CEE with the goal of offering a platform for discussion and exchange and stimulation of joined projects. About 130 scientists from 19 countries followed the invitation and visited Vienna, Austria. A selection of fully reviewed contributions is edited in this book and is meant as a mirror of the wide range of activities in the realm of cartography in this region. The innovative and contemporary character of these topics has lead to a great variety of interdis- plinary contributions. Topics cover an enormous range with heterogenous relati- ships to the main book issues.

Author : Patricia García
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031427985

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Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism by Patricia García Pdf

Author : Jiayao Wang,Fang Wu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811606144

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Advances in Cartography and Geographic Information Engineering by Jiayao Wang,Fang Wu Pdf

This book reviews and summarizes the development and achievement in cartography and geographic information engineering in China over the past 60 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It comprehensively reflects cartography, as a traditional discipline, has almost the same long history with the world's first culture and has experienced extraordinary and great changes. The book consists of nineteen thematic chapters. Each chapter is in accordance with the unified directory structure, introduction, development process, major study achievements, problem and prospect, representative works, as well as a lot of references. It is useful as a reference both for scientists and technicians who are engaged in teaching, researching and engineering of cartography and geographic information engineering.

Author : William Cartwright,Michael P Peterson,Georg Gartner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540366515

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Multimedia Cartography by William Cartwright,Michael P Peterson,Georg Gartner Pdf

The explosion of interactive multimedia cartography products, on online, has generated an immense interest in developing methodologies that best exploit both the technology and the distribution capabilities of multimedia mapping. From a discussion of theoretical elements of multimedia cartography, to chapters on specific products and production tools, to an analysis of future technologies and applications, this is a comprehensive and absorbing exploration of a fast-moving field.

Author : Levi R. Bryant
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748679980

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Onto-Cartography by Levi R. Bryant Pdf

Defends and transforms naturalism and materialism to show how culture itself is formed by nature. Bryant endorses a pan-ecological theory of being, arguing that societies are ecosystems that can only be understood by considering nonhuman material agencies such as rivers and mountain ranges alongside signifying agencies such as discourses, narratives and ideologies.

Author : Ioannis Manakos,Matthias Braun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400779693

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Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in Europe by Ioannis Manakos,Matthias Braun Pdf

Land use and land cover (LULC) as well as its changes (LUCC) are an interplay between bio-geophysical characteristics of the landscape and climate as well as the complex human interaction including its different patterns of utilization superimposed on the natural vegetation. LULC is a core information layer for a variety of scientific and administrative tasks(e.g. hydrological modelling, climate models, land use planning).In particular in the context of climate change with its impacts on socio-economic, socio-ecologic systems as well as ecosystem services precise information on LULC and LUCC are mandatory baseline datasets required over large areas. Remote sensing can provide such information on different levels of detail and in a homogeneous and reliable way. Hence, LULC mapping can be regarded as a prototype for integrated approaches based on spaceborne and airborne remote sensing techniques combined with field observations. The book provides for the first time a comprehensive view of various LULC activities focusing on European initiatives, such as the LUCAS surveys, the CORINE land covers, the ESA/EU GMES program and its resulting Fast-Track- and Downstream Services, the EU JRC Global Land Cover, the ESA GlobCover project as well as the ESA initiative on Essential Climate Variables. All have and are producing highly appreciated land cover products. The book will cover the operational approaches, but also review current state-of-the-art scientific methodologies and recommendations for this field. It opens the view with best-practice examples that lead to a view that exceeds pure mapping, but to investigate into drivers and causes as well as future projections.

Author : Tania Rossetto,Laura Lo Presti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781040029237

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The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities by Tania Rossetto,Laura Lo Presti Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities offers a vibrant exploration of the intersection and convergence between map studies and the humanities through the multifaceted traditions and inclinations from different disciplinary, geographical and cultural contexts. With 42 chapters from leading scholars, this book provides an intellectual infrastructure to navigate core theories, critical concepts, phenomenologies and ecologies of mapping, while also providing insights into exciting new directions for future scholarship. It is organised into seven parts: Part 1 moves from the depths of the humans–maps relation to the posthuman dimension, from antiquity to the future of humanity, presenting a multidisciplinary perspective that bridges chronological distances, introspective instances and social engagements. Part 2 draws on ancient, archaeological, historical and literary sources, to consider the materialities and textures embedded in such texts. Fictional and non-fictional cartographies are explored, including layers of time, mobile historical phenomena, unmappable terrain features, and even animal perspectives. Part 3 examines maps and mappings from a medial perspective, offering theoretical insight into cartographic mediality as well as studies of its intermedial relations with other media. Part 4 explores how a cultural cartographic perspective can be productive in researching the digital as a human experience, considering the development of a cultural attentiveness to a wide range of map-related phenomena that interweave human subjectivities and nonhuman entities in a digital ecology. Part 5 addresses a range of issues and urgencies that have been, and still are, at the centre of critical cartographic thinking, from politics, inequalities and discrimination. Part 6 considers the growing amount of literature and creative experimentation that involve mapping in practices of eliciting individual life histories, collective identities and self-accounts. Part 7 examines the variety of ways in which we can think of maps in the public realm. This innovative and expansive Handbook will appeal to those in the fields of geography, art, philosophy, media and visual studies, anthropology, history, digital humanities and cultural studies as well as industry professionals.

Author : Haowen Yan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811336782

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Description Approaches and Automated Generalization Algorithms for Groups of Map Objects by Haowen Yan Pdf

This book focuses on the generalization of map features, providing descriptions and classifying groups of map objects into six categories: point clusters, groups of contours, road networks, river networks, continuous areal features and discrete areal features. Discussing the methods and algorithms in map generalization in equal measure, it also describes the approaches for describing map features. The book is a valuable reference for graduates and researchers who are interested in cartography and geographic information science/systems, especially those in automated map generalization and spatial databases construction.

Author : Mike Duggan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789148763

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All Mapped Out by Mike Duggan Pdf

From cave paintings to Google, a thought-provoking investigation of how maps do not just reflect the world around us, but shape the way we live. Maps go far beyond just showing us where things are located. All Mapped Out is an exploration of how maps impact our lives on social and cultural levels. This book offers a journey through the fascinating history of maps, from ancient cave paintings and stone carvings to the digital interfaces we rely on today. But it’s not just about the maps themselves; it’s about the people behind them. All Mapped Out reveals how maps have affected societies, influenced politics and economies, impacted the environment, and even shaped our sense of personal identity. Mike Duggan uncovers the incredible power of maps to shape the world and the knowledge we consume, offering a unique and eye-opening perspective on the significance of maps in our daily lives.