Geographic Information From Space: Processes and Applications of Geocoded Satellite Images

by Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

A comprehensive study of a revolutionary information gathering system with applications in fields as diverse as forestry and urban development. Addressing both the emerging technologies for gathering such data and its many applications, the book discusses the basic problems inherent in transforming satellite data into a precise geographic reference system (geocoding) and goes on to review the useful geographic information that can be derived from such geocoded information.

222 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1995

About the author

March 8, 1929 - March 16, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/boo...

Writer, photographer, and publisher. Founded the Jargon Society Press.