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Book review in this Article GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THE LAW: MAPPING THE LEGAL FRONTIERS. By G. C ho . John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester , 1998. ISBN 0 471 94857 8. 158 × 236 mm. xix + 337 pages. 19 figures and 7 tables. Price £70 hardback. UNDERSTANDING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES. By C. J. O liver and S. Q uegan . Artech House, Inc., Norwood, USA , 1998. ISBN 0 89006 850 X. 160 × 235 mm. xxvii + 479 pages. 125 diagrams and illustrations. Price £79 hardback. REMOTE SENSING OF TROPICAL REGIONS. By E. A. S harkov . John Wiley & Sons Ltd., in association with Praxis Publishing Ltd., Chichester , 1998. ISBN 0 471 97171 5. 172 × 247 mm. xvii + 310 pages, plus 8 pages of colour plates. 78 figures and 24 tables. Price £65 hardback. ELEMENTS OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY, WITH APPLICATIONS IN GIS. By P. R. W olf and B. A. D ewitt . McGraw Hill, New York , 2000. ISBN 0 07 292454 3. 160 × 235 mm. xiii + 608 pages. Illustrated. Price US$60 hardback. THE WESTERN FRONT FROM THE AIR. By N. W atkis . Sutton Publishing, Stroud , 1999. ISBN 0 7509 1338. 200 × 270 mm. ix + 130 pages. Illustrated. Price £20 hardback. ADVANCES IN REMOTE SENSING AND GIS ANALYSIS. Edited by P. M. A tkinson and N. J. T ate . John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester , 1999. ISBN 0 471 98577 5. 174 × 251 mm. xiv + 273 pages, plus 4 pages of colour plates. Illustrated. Price £55 hardback. MANUAL OF REMOTE SENSING, THIRD EDITION, VOLUME 3. REMOTE SENSING FOR THE EARTH SCIENCES. Edited by A. N. R encz . John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, USA, in co‐operation with the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing , 1999. ISBN 0471 29405 5. 184 × 260mm. xvi + 707 pages. 280 illustrations and tables and 53 colour plates. Price £128 hardback. MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES WITH GIS. By L. L ang . SERVING MAPS ON THE INTERNET. By C. H arder . Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., Redlands, California, USA , 1998. ISBN 1 879102 53 6 and ISBN 1 879102 52 8, respectively. Both 229 × 189 mm. ix + 117 pages and ix + 130 pages, respectively, both plus CD‐ROM. Illustrated. Price US$19.95 each, paperback. PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF OCEANS. By I. V. C herny and V. Yu R aizer . John Wiley & Sons Ltd., in association with Praxis Publishing Ltd., Chichester , 1998. ISBN 0 471 97170 7. 172 × 247mm. viii + 195 pages. 127 illustrations, including 8 pages of colour plates. Price £55 hardback. VIDEO CAMERA TECHNOLOGY. By A. C. L uther . Artech House Inc., Norwood, USA , 1998. ISBN 0 89006 556 X. 160 × 235 mm. xvi + 312 pages. Black and white illustrations. Price £59 hardback. DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY, VOLUME I. By T. S chenk . TerraScience, Laurelville, U.S.A , 1999. ISBN 0 9677653 0 7 perfect bound; ISBN 0 9677653 1 5 case bound. 235 × 162mm. xx + 421 pages. 179 figures and 15 tables. Price US$49 perfect bound, US$69 case bound, plus package and postage. INFINITE PERSPECTIVES: TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF THREE‐DIMENSIONAL MAP‐MAKING. By B. M. A mbroziak and J. R. A mbroziak , with an introduction by R. B radbury . Princeton Architectural Press, New York , 1999. ISBN 1 56898 195 3. 382 × 325mm. 111 pages. 100 colour illustrations. Price £55 hardback. EVEREST—THE MAN AND THE MOUNTAIN. By J. R. S mith . Whittles Publishing, Caithness , 1999. ISBN 1 870325 72 9. 170 × 240mm. xiv + 306 pages. 45 figures and 5 appendices. Price £37.50 paperback. TEXT BOOKS ON REMOTE SENSING AND GIS. Remote Sensing Notes edited by J apan A ssociation of R emote S ensing . GIS Notes by S. M urai . Asian Center for Research on Remote Sensing, Thailand , 1999. 140 × 130mm. Price unknown, CD‐ROM. REMOTE SENSING CHANGE DETECTION. Edited by R. S. L unetta and C. D. E lvidge . Ann Arbor Press, Michigan, USA , 1998. ISBN 1 57504 037 9. 183 × 260mm. xviii + 318 pages. 20 colour plates, plus numerous illustrations. Price US$69.95 hardback. NORFOLK FROM THE AIR. VOLUME 2. Edited by P. W ade ‐M artins . Photography by D. E dwards . Norfolk Museums Service, Norwich , 1999. ISBN 0 903101 68 8. 212 × 284mm. 148 pages. 135 half page aerial photographs, 89 in black and white. Price £15.95 paperback.