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Mobile Today becomes What Tomorrow?

Writer Chris Andrews takes a few minutes to imagine futuristic uses of geospatial technology and wonders how far off these kinds of applications really are. Mobile computing devices are rapidly becoming ubiquitous in our daily work and personal lives. Andrews looks at how technology drivers are pushing the integration of geospatial and mobile technology into the future.

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Earth Observation of Global Change: The Role of Satellite Remote Sensing in Monitoring the Global Environment
Global change is increasingly considered a critical topic in environmental research. Remote sensing methods provide a relevant tool to monitor global variables, since they offer a systematic coverage of the earth surface, at different spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions. The data provided by earth observation satellites are being operationally used for monitoring atmospheric conditions, ice sheets and glacier movements, crop dynamism and land use changes, deforestation and desertification processes, as well as water conditions. The book includes an analysis of the leading missions in global earth observation, and then reviews the main fields in which remote sensing methods are providing vital data for global change studies. From Springer, 2008.

Geo-Business: GIS in the Digital Organization
Once the domain of cartographers and other specialists, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are increasingly being employed by the business community. Location-based services, supply chain management, management of field-distributed equipment, geographical marketing and promotion, and the spatial web are some of the current business applications which make use of GIS principles. From Wiley, 2008.

America from the Air: A Guide to the Landscape Along Your Route
An illustrated guide, in both book and CD-ROM, of landscapes seen from airp*** windows across the United States. This is a guide to what an airline passenger sees from his seat while flying over the United States. Through its ingenious construction and a map of preferred flight paths, its easy to find those pages that correspond to whatever flight a passenger happens to be on, and then to identify features that can be seen from the air. The book marries geology, natural history, and human history for a glorious portrait of the continent, from the Atlantic City Boardwalk to Mount Saint Helens. Each two-page spread features an aerial photo with captions identifying features passengers will see and an essay interpreting the features. Each chapter is a Flight Corridor, with pages sequenced to follow a trip from takeoff to landing. Because many flight paths overlap, the fifteen corridors cover the forty most heavily traveled flight segments in the continental United States, plus many others. In many regions of the country, readers will have a new page to read about every twenty minutes. The entire book is also on the included CD-ROM, which can easily be used on a laptop in the air. From Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

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