Geodesi & uppmätning för kartering

Vad är en karta? Hur har människor föreställt sig världen genom historien och vad säger kartorna om oss själva? Thomas Reinertsen Berg tar oss på en resa från stenåldersmänniskornas mystiska symboler fram till GPS och Google Earth i en underhållan...

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"Resultatet är fantastiskt och en fingervisning om hur framtida fackböcker inom humaniora och pappersböcker överlag kan vinna en större publik och genomslagskraft i ljudbokens tidevarv. För det här är en bok som man vill hålla i, känna, dofta...

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1800-talets början är en på många sätt spännande tid i svensk historia. Inom krigsmakten, samhället och vetenskapen skedde en betydande utveckling och i dessa framåtsträvanden spelade inte minst kartorna en viktig roll. Maria Gussarsson beskriver ...

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Principles of Geographical Information Systems provides a thorough, broad-ranging account of the theory and practice of GIS. It explains why spatial data and the information systems based on them are so important in the modern world for solving a ...

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Recommended for viewing on colour device.Official publication of the National Maritime Museum's "e;Ships, Clocks and Stars"e; exhibition.300 years ago, amidst growing frustration from the naval community and pressure from the increasing im...

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Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Mines and Hazardous Areas: Monitoring and Prediction Technologies presents the fundamentals of mining related geotechnical risk and how the latest advances in sensing and data communication can be used both ...

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Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Mines and Hazardous Areas: Monitoring and Prediction Technologies presents the fundamentals of mining related geotechnical risk and how the latest advances in sensing and data communication can be used both ...

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Uncertainties in GPS Positioning: A Mathematical Discourse describes the calculations performed by a GPS receiver and the problems associated with ensuring that the derived location is a close match to the actual location. Inaccuracies in calculat...

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Uncertainties in GPS Positioning: A Mathematical Discourse describes the calculations performed by a GPS receiver and the problems associated with ensuring that the derived location is a close match to the actual location. Inaccuracies in calculat...

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La Caille was one of the observational astronomers and geodesists who followed Newton in developing ideas about celestial mechanics and the shape of the earth. He provided data to the great 18th-century mathematicians involved in understanding the...

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La Caille was one of the observational astronomers and geodesists who followed Newton in developing ideas about celestial mechanics and the shape of the earth. He provided data to the great 18th-century mathematicians involved in understanding the...

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The purpose of geomathematics is firstly to offer an appropriate means of assimilating and assessing the ever-increasing flow of data from geoscientific and satellite sources, and secondly to provide an objective basis for the interpretation, clas...

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This is the first comprehensive biography of one of the greatest and most careful observational astronomers of all time. He mapped the southern sky and named many of the constellations. In addition, he contributed to geodesy, navigation, and celes...

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People use concepts such as time and date to structure their lives on a daily basis. They often measure their travel by marking points arranged along great circles on the globe. Yet most do not understand the origin and history of these terms and ...

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Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding three fundamental properties of Earth: its geometric shape, its orientation in space, and its gravity field, as well as the changes of these properties with time. Over the past half ...

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Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding three fundamental properties of Earth: its geometric shape, its orientation in space, and its gravity field, as well as the changes of these properties with time. Over the past half ...

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Geodesy has undergone technological and theoretical changes of immense proportions since the launching of Sputnik. The accuracy of current satellite geodetic data has approached the centimeter level and will improve by one or two orders of magnitu...

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The advent of highly precise space-based geodetic techniques has led to the application of these techniques to the solution of global earth and ocean problems. Now under consideration is a worldwide network of interconnected fiducial stations wher...

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People use concepts such as time and date to structure their lives on a daily basis. They often measure their travel by marking points arranged along great circles on the globe. Yet most do not understand the origin and history of these terms and ...

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Carl Friedrich Gauss, the "foremost of mathematicians," was a land surveyor. Measuring and calculating geodetic networks on the curved Earth was the inspiration for some of his greatest mathematical discoveries. This is just one example ...

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This volume contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Scientific and Professional Conference Geodesy, Cartography and Geoinformatics 2019 (GCG 2019). The conference provided a forum for prominent scientists, resea...

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This volume contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Scientific and Professional Conference Geodesy, Cartography and Geoinformatics 2019 (GCG 2019). The conference provided a forum for prominent scientists, resea...

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A definitive description of the various models of mission operations systems MOS which provides an account of the design process and of the general principles of the designs themselves. The principles described can be applied to all types of scien...

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Thinking about a career in property or construction? Thinking of becoming of Chartered Surveyor? How to Become a Chartered Surveyor demystifies the process and provides a clear road map for candidates to follow. The book outlines potential pathway...

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Thinking about a career in property or construction? Thinking of becoming of Chartered Surveyor? How to Become a Chartered Surveyor demystifies the process and provides a clear road map for candidates to follow. The book outlines potential pathway...

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This book consolidates, unifies and streamlines material in a unique way, not covered by the few other books that exist on the determination of geoid. It presents the theory and methodology of the most common techniques used for precise determinat...

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[the text below needs editing and we must be careful not to say things about Dan Brown's book that could get Springer in legal trouble] Dan Browns novel, The Da Vinci Code, was first published in 2003; its sales have reached 40 million worldw...

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A General Meeting of the lAG was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, to commemorate its 125th Anniversary. The Edinburgh meeting, which attracted 360 scientific delegates and 80 accompanying persons from 44 countries, was hosted jointly by the Royal Soci...

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Carl Friedrich Gauss, the "e;foremost of mathematicians,"e; was a land surveyor. Measuring and calculating geodetic networks on the curved Earth was the inspiration for some of his greatest mathematical discoveries. This is just one exampl...

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Carl Friedrich Gauss, the "e;foremost of mathematicians,"e; was a land surveyor. Measuring and calculating geodetic networks on the curved Earth was the inspiration for some of his greatest mathematical discoveries. This is just one exampl...

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