Space geodesy has evolved in the last twenty years into one of the most exciting disciplines in the earth sciences. This development is due to a large extent to the versatility of applications provided by the radio interferometric technique called Global Positioning System or GPS. Appropriately, Symposium 102: Global Positioning System: An Overview was held at the 125th Anniversary Meeting of t…
This book is meant to serve as a source for insight into some of these issues within the context of remote sensing applications in the earth sciences. It is no longer possible to contain all this information in one book, as earlier manual did, and even within the field of earth sciences there are certain topics that cannot be covered. This book is meant to serve as a fundamental source of infor…
Most schools of business in the United States, as well as those in other countries of the world, have a castone course in their curriculum that is concerned with "business policy." This book is designed for such a course. The nature of the business policy course, the changes taking place in the concept of such cources, and the objectives of the policy course, as well as the structure of the boo…
This book contains a collection of most of the papers presented at that institute. The institut was organized to bring together the leading specialists in the field of map data processing for exchanging ideas and for setting directions for future research and devel;opment. An important secondary objectives was the bridging of some of the still-existing gaps of communication between researches …
The objective of this book is to examine the major changes which have influenced the measurements and processing of topographic and non-topographic spatial data. The emphasis throughout is on new and emerging technology antd itsapplications, although fundamental priciples are introduced where appropriate. The reader will will not find in this volume many of the topics normally associated with t…