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There has been considerable expansion in the use of digital soil mapping technologies and development of methodologies that improve digital soil mapping at all scales and levels of resolution. These developments have occurred in all parts of the world in the past few years and also in countries where it was previously absent. There is almost always a shortage of data in soil research and its applications and this may lead to unsupported statements, poor statistics, misrepresentations and ultimately bad resource management. In digital soil mapping, maximum use is made of sparse data and this book contains useful examples of how this can be done.

This book focuses on digital soil mapping methodologies and applications for areas where data are limited, and has the following sections (i) introductory papers, (ii) dealing with limited spatial data infrastructures, (iii) methodology development, and (iv) examples of digital soil mapping in various parts of the globe (including USA, Brazil, UK, France, Czech Republic, Honduras, Kenya, Australia). The final chapter summarises priorities for digital soil mapping.

Author: 

Alfred E. Hartemink, Alex McBratney and Maria de Lourdes Mendonça-Santos (Editors)

Published: 

2008-08-01, Springer

ISBN: 

978-1-4020-8591-8

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This publication is the first book on the development and application of digital terrain modelling for regional planning and policy support. It is a compilation of research results by international research groups at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre providing scientific support to the development and implementation of EU environmental policy. Applications include the pan-European River and Catchment Database, European Flood Alert System, European Digital Soil Database and alternative solar energy resources, all discussed in a GIS framework in the context of the INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe (INSPIRE). This practice-oriented book is recommended to practicing environmental modellers and GIS experts working on regional planning and policy support applications.

Author: 

Robert J. Peckham and Jordan Gyozo (Editors)

Published: 

2007-01-01, Springer

ISBN: 

3-540-36730-6

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Digital Terrain Modelling: Principles and Methodology is the only up-to-date book covering this range of topics. It provides comprehensive coverage of the field, starting from terrain analysis (using terrain descriptors), data sampling strategy, data acquisition technology, data quality control, theory and methodology for surface modelling, algorithms for triangulation formations, interpolation methods, models for the prediction of DTM accuracy, management of DTM data, multi-scale representation, contouring and other extraction of other features, as well as various applications.

Author: 

Zhilin Li , Qing Zhu and Christopher Gold

Published: 

2005-01-01, Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 

0-41532-462-9

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In Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground (University of Chicago Press, 2012) medical geographer Tom Koch makes a new, and important argument: It is in the mapping of individual cases of illness as group events that we have come to understand disease as a public thing affecting general populations. Maps become, in this telling, the workbench on which a collection of individual cases are combined to create a single health event, seen in place. It is thus in the mapping, and the environmental thinking that mapping promotes, that theories about this or that disease (and health in general) are first formulated and then tested.

This is not something new, but rather something old that has become increasingly important as immigration and trade carried disease around the world. Our understanding of disease as a public thing began in the 1500's with an anatomical atlas and an atlas of the world, the two together presaging a way of knowing that continues today. From this start maps became the medium in which symptoms were collected into databases whose cases became a single event: an outbreak of plague in the seventeenth century, for example. By the end of the eighteenth century the map was become a principal medium in which theories of diseases like cancer, cholera, typhoid fever, and so on were proposed and then tested in maps of local outbreaks.

Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground, tells this story of disease through a collection of maps in which local outbreaks, national epidemics, and international pandemics were formulated. From seventeenth century plague to twenty-first century cancer: all present disease as a communal thing, something lodged in the environment and presented in a way that insisted on theorizing and testing as a way of understanding. Here, too, are the origins of health and disease not merely as private calamities but as public health events to which the response must be public and official, not simply personal.

Author: 

Tom Koch

Published: 

2011-06-30, Chicago University Press

ISBN: 

0226449351

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Consisting primarily of papers presented at the GIS Research UK Conference held at the University of Glasgow, Dynamic and Mobile GIS: Investigating Changes in Space and Time provides a contemporary overview of the representation, processing, visualization, and update of dynamic spatio-temporal events using the GIS environment. This book highlights innovations in technology, new ways of modeling both spatial objects and dynamic processes affecting them, and advances in visualization. Featuring contributions from established GIS workers, this text presents the current state-of-the-art in key aspects of mobile and dynamic GIS, exploring important research directions and future challenges.

Author: 

Jane Drummond, Roland Billen, Elsa João and David Forrest

Published: 

2006-11-01, Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 

0849390923

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Walking from a parked car to a shop, driving to a planned or unplanned shopping centre and virtual exchanges through the Internet are all part of 21st century trips in human activity spaces. Can these diversified types of trips be linked in a common framework?

In a bold and innovative analysis, the author shows how such a diversity of trips can be linked by a universal vision of spatial interaction modelling. He uses one special differential equation, describing exchanges between time lines, to model both real and virtual trips to shopping centres and through the Internet. These theoretical time lines are part of a time-space convergence, a concept that appeared in the time geography literature at the end of the 1960s. Whilst the spatial contexts are different, the process of time exchanges is the same for both real and virtual trips. It is shown how distance decay is fundamental to this type of interaction and is dependent on the time boundary defining the exchange. Time boundaries can be defined as the trading hours of shopping centres or by the rotation of the Earth. The startling conclusion is that distance does matter, not only in walking to shops, but in defining the movement of internet traffic.

Author: 

Robert Baker

Published: 

2005-12-01, Springer

ISBN: 

1-4020-4345-7

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This book provides a collection of selected articles that have been submitted to the Earth Observation and Global Changes (EOGC2011) Conference. All articles have been carefully reviewed by an international board of top-level experts. The book covers a wide variety of topics including Physical Geodesy, Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, High-Resolution and Fast-Revisiting Remote Sensing Satellite Systems, Global Change & Change Detection, Spatial Modelling, GIS & Geovisualization. The articles document concrete results of current studies related to Earth Sciences. The book is intended for researchers and experts working in the area of Spatial Data Analysis, Environmental Monitoring/Analysis, Global Change Monitoring and related fields.

Author: 

Krisp, J.M.; Meng, L.; Pail, R.; Stilla, U.

Published: 

2013-02-01, Springer

ISBN: 

978-3-642-32714-8

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This book of collected articles is dedicated to the development and use of software for earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science. The usefulness of coupling infrastructures and data management will be discussed, along with strategies and tools for pre- and post-processing and coupling software and strategies in regional and global models.

Author: 

Reinhard Budich and René Redler (Editors)

Published: 

2010-04-01, Springer

ISBN: 

978-3-540-75342-1

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Several emerging phenomena and technologies, such as the increasing availability of open source software and the continuing evolution of distributed computing, are introducing a new dynamic into information system development. Emerging Spatial Information Systems and Applications presents innovative spatial information systems that have been developed for a specific problem or decision-making situation and discusses key concepts and theories underlying current spatial information systems, as well as technology trends and emerging concepts that may impact spatial information system development and applications.

Author: 

Brian Hilton

Published: 

2006-10-31, Idea Group Publishing

ISBN: 

1-59904-075-1

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Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management focuses on manifested threats to humans and their welfare as a result of natural disasters. The book uses an integrative approach to address socio-cultural, political and physical components of the disaster process. Human and social vulnerability as well as risk to environmental hazards are explored within the comprehensive context of diverse natural hazards and disasters.
In addition to scientific explanations of disastrous occurrences, people and governments of hazard-prone countries often have their own interpretations for why natural disasters occur. In such interpretations they often either blame others, in order to conceal their inability to protect themselves, or they blame themselves, attributing the events to either real or imagined misdeeds. The book contains a chapter devoted to the neglected topic of such reactions and explanations. Includes chapters on key topics such as the application of GIS in hazard studies; resiliency; disasters and poverty; climate change and sustainability and development.

This book is designed as a primary text for an interdisciplinary course on hazards for upper-level undergraduate and Graduate students. Although not targeted for an introductory hazards course, students in such a course may find it very useful as well. Additionally, emergency managers, planners, and both public and private organizations involved in disaster response, and mitigation could benefit from this book along with hazard researchers. It not only includes traditional and popular hazard topics (e.g., disaster cycles, disaster relief, and risk and vulnerability), it also includes neglected topics, such as the positive impacts of disasters, disaster myths and different accounts of disasters, and disasters and gender.

Author: 

Bimal Kanti Paul

Published: 

2011-11-01, Wiley

ISBN: 

978-0-470-66002-7

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