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3D Recording, Documentation and Management of Cultural Heritage
by Efstratios Stylianidis, Fabio  Remondino

Documentation of our cultural heritage is experiencing an explosion of innovation. New tools have appeared in recent decades including laser scanning, rapid prototyping, high dynamic range spherical and infrared imagery, drone photography, augmented and virtual reality and computer rendering in mult... more...

3D/4D City Modelling
From Sensors to Applications
by Sultan Kocaman, Devrim Akca, Daniela Poli, Fabio Remondino

This book provides theoretical and practical insights into city modelling from a geomatics perspective. It offers a critical discussion of state-of-the-art solutions for the geometric and semantic generation of 3D city models, their management and maintenance in GIS environments, and also their repr... more...

Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning
by George Vosselman, Hans-Gerd Maas

Whittles Publishing is delighted to announce that Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning has been awarded the Karl Kraus Medal by the ISPRS with the presentation being made on 31st August at the XXII Congress in Melbourne. We are also very pleased for all the authors who have contributed to the boo... more...

Applications of 3D Measurement from Images
by John  Fryer , Harvey  Mitchell , Jim  Chandler

This outstanding new book reveals through a series of case studies how modern digital photogrammetry is capable of providing dense and accurate spatial data to solve a wide range of contemporary measurement problems, and at a diverse range of scales. It outlines key principles and methods associated... more...

Datums and Map Projections
For Remote Sensing, GIS and Surveying, 2nd edition
by Jonathan  Iliffe, Roger  Lott

Over the years since its first appearance, Datums and Map Projections has become a key book for many students and professionals around the world. Its theme - a practical guide to coordinate reference systems - is as important now as when it was first published, probably more so when we consider the ... more...

Environmental and Engineering Geology
Beyond the Basics
by J. Griffiths, F.G. Bell

This new book is a substantially updated and expanded edition based upon the successful and acclaimed Basic Environmental and Engineering Geology by the late Professor Fred Bell. It incorporates the changes that have occurred since and also addresses some aspects of the discipline that have devel... more...

Geomodels in Engineering Geology
An Introduction
by Peter Fookes, Geoff Pettifer, Tony Waltham

The book provides a valuable systematic guide to the evaluation and understanding of worldwide ground and environmental conditions of sites and their surrounds. This is done through a series of annotated block models and supporting photographs of common geological and geomorphological situations aro... more...

Geomorphology for Engineers
by Peter Fookes, Mark  Lee, G. Milligan

'...Most engineering companies employ geomorphologists on their full-time staff and all require a text that guides them to the core of the subject. This book fulfils that need...' Extract from the Foreword by Professor Denys Brunsden, University of London, King's College. Geomorpholog... more...

Handbook of Luminescence Dating
by Mark D. Bateman

Luminescence dating is now widely applied by scientists working in Quaternary geology and archaeology to obtain ages for events as diverse as past earthquakes, desertification and cave occupation sites. Using quartz or feldspar minerals found in almost ubiquitous sand and finer sediments, luminescen... more...

High Resolution Optical Satellite Imagery, 2nd edition
by Ian  Dowman, Karsten Jacobsen, Gottfried Konecny, Rainer Sandau

The second edition of this book has been fully updated to include information on optical sensors launched since 2012 and on new developments in technology, particularly on small satellites and on constellations. There is also a new chapter on applications which looks at how products from optical sen... more...

Introduction to Pointcloudmetry
Point Clouds from Laser Scanning and Photogrammetry
by Mathias Lemmens

There is an enormous need to map cities, rivers, coasts, roads, industrial installations and infrastructure in general, and also vulnerable areas in full three dimensions. It has to be done accurately and in detail. The main technologies for detailed 3D mapping are based on imaging devices (photogra... more...

Object and Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing
Modelling and Monitoring Environmental and Anthropogenic Objects and Change Processes
by Stefan  Hinz, Andreas  Braun, Martin  Weinmann

Fully automated interpretation and understanding of remotely sensed data by a computer has been a challenge for many decades, and many approaches have been developed over the years. Significant advances in knowledge-based image understanding, machine learning and artificial intelligence has led to t... more...

Principles of Geospatial Surveying
by Arthur L. Allan

This important new book replaces the author's highly successful Practical Surveying and Computations and has been completely recast to accord with modern practices of geospatial surveying. Although much has changed in the profession of geospatial surveying, the same basic geometrical principl... more...

Reviving Palmyra in Multiple Dimensions:
Images, Ruins and Cultural Memory
by Minna Silver, Gabriele Fangi, Ahmet Denker

This book provides a visual reconstruction of Palmyra, a World Heritage Site situated in Syria, which flourished in Greco-Roman times. Palmyra is situated in a desert oasis and served as a vibrant caravan station on the Silk Road connecting the Roman world with the East. It has been called ‘th... more...

Soil and Rock Description in Engineering Practice
3rd edition
by David  Norbury

This is a revised and updated edition of the highly successful first and second editions. In the intervening period the procedures used in the description of soils and rocks have continued to develop and evolve and this new edition incorporates changes in the international standards EN ISO 14688 and... more...

Unmanned Vehicle Systems for Geomatics
Towards Robotic Mapping
by Costas Armenakis, Petros Patias

This book contributes to the transformative and revolutionary use of small, unmanned vehicle systems for three-dimensional geospatial data acquisition and mapping, which is considered to be a paradigm shift in the science and technology of geomatics. The book presents a systematic and comprehensi... more...