InTeOp, 2012. — 322 p. — ISBN: 9535106890.
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.
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.
Contents:Mathematical analysis in cartography by means of computer algebra system
Web map tile services for spatial data infrastructures: management and optimization
Use of terrestrial 3D laser scanner in cartographing and monitoring relief dynamics and habitation space from various historical periods
Analysis of pre-geodetic maps in search of construction steps details
Advanced map optimalization based on eye-tracking
Unexpected 16th century finding to have disappeared just after its printing –
Anthony Jenkinson’s map of Russia, 1562
GPS positioning of some objectives which are situated at great distances from the roads by means of a mobile slide monitor – MSM
Contribution of new sensors to cartography
Contribution of SAR radar images for the cartography: case of mangrove and post eruptive regions
Cartography of landscape dynamics in Central Spain
GIS-based models as tools for environmental issues: applications in the South of Portugal
Open source tools, landscape and cartography: studies on the cultural heritage at a territorial scale
Imaging the past: cartography and multicultural realities of Croatian borderlands