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Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
the photogrammetric record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.638
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1477-9730
pISSN - 0031-868X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-9730.1998.tb01502.x
Subject(s) - art history , cartography , library science , art , humanities , computer graphics (images) , geography , computer science
Book review in this Article DIGITAL IMAGING. By R. G raham . Whittles Publishing, Caithness , 1998. ISBN 1 870325 12 5. 234 × 156 mm. 240 pages. 18 colour plates, 93 figures, 9 tables. Price £35.00 paperback. PARALLEL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS FOR GIS. Edited by R. H ealey , S. D owers , B. G ittings and M. M ineter . Taylor & Francis, London , 1998. ISBN 0 7484 0509 7. xviii + 460 pages. Price £24.95. FRAMEWORK FOR THE WORLD. Edited by D. R hind . Geoinformation International, Cambridge , 1997. ISBN 1 8624 2021 1. 240 × 160 mm. 325 pages. Illustrated and 12 colour plates. Price £45.00 casebound. SEMANTIC MODELLING FOR THE ACQUISITION OF TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION FROM IMAGES AND MAPS. Edited by W. F $ourstner and L. P l$uumer . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel , 1997. ISBN 3 7643 5758 4. 235 × 160 mm. 227 pages. Diagrams and illustrations. Price CHF88.00. GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER CARTOGRAPHY. By C. J ones . Addison Wesley Longman Ltd., Harlow , 1997. ISBN 0 582 04439 1. 190 × 245 mm. 319 pages. 16 colour plates, 202 black and white illustrations and 14 tables. Price £21.00 paperback. MAPPING: WAYS OF REPRESENTING THE WORLD. By D. D orling and D. F airbairn . (Insights into Human Geography Series.) Edited by P. K nox and S. S mith . Addison Wesley Longman Ltd., Harlow , 1997. ISBN 0 582 28972 6. 234 × 155 mm. vii + 184 pages. Price £11.99 softbound. MANUAL OF PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION. Second edition. Editor‐in‐chief W. R. P hilipson . American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, MD, USA , 1997. ISBN 1 57083 039 8. 285 × 225 mm. xvi + 689 pages. 489 figures, including 87 in colour, and 75 tables. Price for non‐members US$124.00. FLATTENING THE EARTH. TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF MAP PROJECTIONS. By J. P. S nyder . University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London , 1997. ISBN 0 226 76747 7. 235 × 165 mm. xviii + 365 pages. 173 figures and 6 tables. Price £15.95 paperback. EUROPEAN SPACE DIRECTORY 1998. Thirteenth edition. Edited by D. S hirvanian . Sevig Press, Paris , 1998. ISSN 0765–0574. 270 × 210 mm. 324 pages. 1 figure and 43 tables. Price FFr965 paperback. TERMINOLOGIE DE TÉLÉDÉTECTION ET PHOTOGRAMMÉTRIE. By S. P aul , G. D ucher , I. J obard , C.‐H. L atarche and M. L enco . Conseil International de la Langue Française, Paris , 1997. ISBN 2 85319 270 9. 247 × 168 mm. 455 pages. Price FFr250 hardback. AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF MAN‐MADE OBJECTS FROM AERIAL AND SPACE IMAGES (II). Edited by A. G ruen , E. P. B altsavias and O. H enricsson . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel , 1997. ISBN 3 7643 5788 6. 238 × 171 mm. ix + 393 pages. 241 figures and 25 tables. Price CHF128 casebound.