Map Projections
Grafarend, Erik W.; You, Rey-Jer; Syffus, Rainer
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Hardback. Map Projections Num Pages: 961 pages, 283 black & white illustrations, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PHVG; RGW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 64. Weight in Grams: 2876.
In the context of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) the book offers a timely review of Map Projections. The first chapters are of foundational type. We introduce the mapping from a left Riemann manifold to a right one specified as conformal, equiaerial and equidistant, perspective and geodetic. In particular, the mapping from a Riemann manifold to a Euclidean manifold ("plane") and the design of various coordinate systems are reviewed . A speciality is the treatment of surfaces of Gaussian curvature zero. The largest part is devoted to the mapping the sphere and the ellipsoid-of-revolution to tangential plane, cylinder and cone (pseudo-cone) ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
961
Condition
New
Number of Pages
935
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642364938
SKU
V9783642364938
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About Grafarend, Erik W.; You, Rey-Jer; Syffus, Rainer
Prof. Dr. Erik W. Grafarend, Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany email: grafarend@gis.uni-stuttgart.de Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rey-Jer You, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Syffus, ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik GmbH, Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany
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