Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Grafarend, Erik W

Title Map projections : cartographic information systems / Erik W. Grafarend, Friedrich W. Krumm
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2006

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xvii, 713 pages) : illustrations
Contents From Riemann manifolds to Riemann manifolds -- From Riemann manifolds to Euclidean manifolds -- Coordinates -- Surfaces of Gaussian curvature zero -- "Sphere to tangential plane": polar (normal) aspect -- "Sphere to tangential plane": transverse aspect --"Sphere to tangential plane": oblique aspect -- "Ellipsoid-of-revolution to tangential plane" -- "Ellipsoid-of-revolution to sphere and from sphere to plane" -- "Sphere to cylinder" : polar aspect -- "Sphere to cylinder" : transverse aspect -- "Sphere to cylinder" : oblique aspect -- "Sphere to cylinder": pseudo-cylindrical projects -- "Ellipsoid-of-revolution to cylinder": polar aspect -- "Ellipsoid-of-revolution to cylinder": transverse aspect -- "Ellipsoid-of-revolution to cylinder": oblique aspect -- "Sphere to cone": polar aspect -- "Sphere to cone": pseudo-conic projections -- "Ellipsoid-of-revolution to to cone": polar aspect -- Geodetic mapping -- Datum problems -- A. Law and order -- B. The inverse of a multivariate homogeneous polynomial -- C. Elliptic integrals -- D. Korn-Lichtenstein and d'Alembert--Euler equations -- E. Geodesics -- F. Mixed cylindric map projections -- Generalized Mollwide projection -- H. Generalized Hammer projection -- I. Mercator projection and polycylindric projection -- J. Gauss surface normal coordinates in geometry and gravity space
Summary Offers a review of map projections (sphere, ellipsoidal, rotational surfaces) and of the geodetic datum transformations, in the context of Geographical Information Systems (GIS). This book also includes the reviews of computer vision and remote sensing space projective mappings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 657-707) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Print version record
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
In Springer e-books
Subject Map projection.
Cartography -- Mathematics
Conformal mapping.
Surfaces, Representation of.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Cartography.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
Cartography -- Mathematics.
Conformal mapping.
Surfaces, Representation of.
Map projection.
Environnement.
Sciences de la terre.
Cartography -- Mathematics
Conformal mapping
Map projection
Surfaces, Representation of
Kartennetzentwurf
Cartografie.
Form Electronic book
Author Krumm, Friedrich W., 1953-
ISBN 9783540367024
3540367020
9783540367017
3540367012