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The terrestrial space is the place of interaction of natural and social systems. The cartography is an essential tool to understand the complexity of these systems, their interaction and evolution. This brings the cartography to an important place in the modern world. The book presents several contributions at different areas and activities showing the importance of the cartography to the perception and organization of the territory. Learning with the past or understanding the present the use of cartography is presented as a way of looking to almost all themes of the knowledge.
Cartography. --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- Human geography
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Collecting, Managing, and Assessing Data Using Sample Surveys provides a thorough, step-by-step guide to the design and implementation of surveys. Beginning with a primer on basic statistics, the first half of the book takes readers on a comprehensive tour through the basics of survey design. Topics covered include the ethics of surveys, the design of survey procedures, the design of the survey instrument, how to write questions and how to draw representative samples. Having shown readers how to design surveys, the second half of the book discusses a number of issues surrounding their implementation, including repetitive surveys, the economics of surveys, web-based surveys, coding and data entry, data expansion and weighting, the issue of non-response, and the documenting and archiving of survey data. The book is an excellent introduction to the use of surveys for graduate students as well as a useful reference work for scholars and professionals.
Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Surveys --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Design. --- Methodology. --- Random sampling --- Statistics of sampling --- Statistics --- Mathematical statistics --- Government surveys --- Mathematical geography
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Geography --- Cartography --- Geography. --- Data processing --- Data processing. --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps
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This volume of 12 studies, mainly published during the past 15 years, begins with an overview of the Islamic astronomy covering not only sophisticated mathematical astronomy and instrumentation but also simple folk astronomy, and the ways in which astronomy was used in the service of religion. It continues with discussions of the importance of Islamic instruments and scientific manuscript illustrations. Three studies deal with the regional schools that developed in Islamic astronomy, in this case, Egypt and the Maghrib. Another focuses on a curious astrological table for calculating the length of life of any individual. The notion of the world centred on the sacred Kaaba in Mecca inspired both astronomers and proponents of folk astronomy to propose methods for finding the qibla, or sacred direction towards the Kaaba; their activities are surveyed here. The interaction between the mathematical and folk traditions in astronomy is then illustrated by an 11th-century text on the qibla in Transoxania. The last three studies deal with an account of the geodetic measurements sponsored by the Caliph al-Ma'mun in the 9th century; a world-map in the tradition of the 11th-century polymath al-Biruni, alas corrupted by careless copying; and a table of geographical coordinates from 15th-century Egypt.
Astronomy --- Astronomical geography --- Astronomie --- Géographie astronomique --- History --- Mathematics --- Histoire --- Mathématiques --- Islamic astronomy --- History. --- Géographie astronomique --- Mathématiques --- Muslim astronomy --- Physical sciences --- Space sciences --- Geography, Astronomical --- Mathematical geography --- Mathematics&delete&
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Cartography --- History --- History. --- K9910 --- K9207 --- -Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Korea: Science and technology -- astronomy --- Korea: Geography and local history -- maps and atlases --- Cartography, Primitive --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- Cartography - Korea - History
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Roger McCoy recounts the 400-year effort to map North America's coasts. Much of the book is based on the narratives of mariners who sought a passage through the continent to Asia and produced maps as a by-product of their journeys. These explorers had to rely on rudimentary mapping tools and to contend with unimaginably harsh conditions. Telling the story from the explorers' perspective, the book shows how maps of their voyages were made and why they were so full of errors, as well as how they gradually acquired greater accuracy, especially after the longitude problem was solved.
Cartography --- Atlantic Coast (North America) --- Pacific Coast (North America) --- Maps --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- West Coast (North America) --- Western Coast (North America) --- East Coast (North America) --- Eastern Coast (North America) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection
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The fourth edition of this textbook has been thoroughly revised in order to reflect the central role which geodesy has achieved in the past ten years.The Global Geodetic Observing System established by the IAG utilizes a variety of techniques to determine the geometric shape of the earth and its kinematics, the variations of earth rotation, and the earth's gravity field. Space techniques play a fundamental role, with recent space missions also including gravity field recovery. Terrestrial techniques are important for regional and local applications, and for validating the results of the space missions. Global and regional reference systems are now well established and widely used. They also serve as a basis for geo-information systems. The analysis of the time variation of the geodetic products provides the link to other geosciences and contributes to proper modelling of geodynamic processes.The book follows the principal directions of geodesy, providing the theoretical background as well as the principles of measurement and evaluation methods. Selected examples of instruments illustrate the geodetic work. An extensive reference list supports further studies.The book is intended to serve as an introductory textbook for graduate students as well as a reference for scientists and engineers in the fields of geodesy, geophysics, surveying engineering and geomatics.
Geodesy --- Geodesy. --- Degrees of latitude and longitude --- Geodetics --- Geophysics --- Geomatics --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Géodésie --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Étude et enseignement (supérieur) --- Géodésie --- Étude et enseignement (supérieur) --- Gravimetry. --- Measurement. --- Reference System.
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Navigation --- Maps. --- Cartography. --- Geodesy. --- Degrees of latitude and longitude --- Geodetics --- Geophysics --- Geomatics --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Map projection --- Maps --- Plans --- Cartographic materials --- Geography --- Cartography --- Maritime history --- History.
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Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerized by them since the age of eight or nine, he found himself courted and seduced by maps, which served functional and allegorical roles in showing him worlds that he might come to know and helping him understand worlds that he had already explored. Maps may have been the stuff of his dreams, but they sometimes drew him away from places where he should have remained firmly rooted.
Maps --- Map reading. --- Cartography --- Topographical drawing --- Interpretation of maps --- Map interpretation --- Reading of maps --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Symbols. --- Methodology. --- Philosophy. --- Conventional signs --- Symbols
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Coasts --- Cartography --- Maps --- 912 <26> --- 912 <481> --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Coastal landforms --- Coastal zones --- Coastlines --- Landforms --- Seashore --- History --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Oceanen. Zeeën. Zeestraten en zeeverbindingen --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Noorwegen --- Geodesie. Cartografie --- cartografie --- anno 1500-1799 --- Noorwegen --- Geodesy. Cartography --- cartography [discipline] --- Norway
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