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- 1From:Geodesy and Cartography (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntensive underground exploitation took place in the area of the Ostrava corporate town in recent past. After the coal mining was shut down in 1994 gradual subsidence in the town area has slowed down, however,...
- 2From:Geographical Analysis (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis paper investigates a conjecture of Lowell regarding the number of neighbors on maps divided into regions. Lowell speculated that border regions have on average three neighbors and that nonborder regions have on...
- 3From:Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Vol. 32, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis paper proposes a methodology to assess gradation as a cartographic tool for communicating information in area-class maps. The communication model is used as a theoretical foundation, suggesting distinction between...
- 4From:Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Vol. 29, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA new global georeferencing system--the World Geographic Reference System (WGRS)--is proposed. This system has particular advantages for location description and communication with electronic devices, i.e., in digital...
- 5From:Ploughshares (Vol. 38, Issue 1)I'm dumb about the world. To me, it always looks haunted, impoverished--especially in snow, which returns it to black and white. And sometimes I look and see nothing-- but the elementary smoke rising from a human...
- 6From:Mercator's World (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedTooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers -- Revised Edition A-D Edited by Josephine French, 1999. This first volume of the revised Dictionary lists cartographers, draftsmen, editors, engravers, printers, publishers, and...
- 7From:Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedATLASES Aston, M., and T. Taylor. 1998. The atlas of archaeology. New York, New York: DK Publishing. 208 p. Barraclough, G. (ed.). 1998. Hammond concise atlas of world history, 5th ed. Maplewood, New Jersey:...
- 8From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWilson Harris portrays geographical and metaphorical Caribbean territory in his writing since 1990. Realism has failed equally with colonial criteria in describing modern equations between self and space, according to...
- 9From:Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (Vol. 18, Issue 422) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Johannes Schüler1 , Andrñ Rudolph1 , Luisa M Schmacht1 , Florian von Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff1 , Matthias A Dieringer1 , Andreas Greiser2 , Peter Kellman3 , Marcel Prothmann1 and Jeanette Schulz-Menger1...
- 10From:Journal of Latin American Geography (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedInstalled wind power capacity in Brazil expanded rapidly from 28.6 megawatts (MW) in 2005 to 10.6 gigawatts (GW) installed electrical capacity in 2016--roughly a 37,000 percent increase in just over a decade. Highly...
- 11From:Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe cartographic history of Japan is remarkable for the sophistication, variety, and ingenuity of its maps. It is also remarkable for its many modes of spatial representation, which might not immediately seem...
- 12From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedGoogle Maps has popularized a model of cartography as platform in which digital traces are collected through participation, crowdsourcing, and user-data harvesting, and used to constantly improve the mapping service....
- 13From:Cartography & Geographic Information Systems (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT. Though circular buffer zones are commonly used in environmental equity assessment, the results obtained may not be entirely accurate because physical processes rarely operate in a perfectly symmetrical manner....
- 14From:Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Vol. 40, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPersuasive maps are ubiquitous in society, yet cartographers have largely neglected to conduct serious, holistic research on them. Persuasive maps represent a form of visual communication that differs markedly from...
- 15From:Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGPS-based pedestrian navigation systems have become increasingly popular. Different interface technologies can be used to communicate/convey route directions to pedestrians. This paper aims to empirically study the...
- 16From:Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIsland cartography deals with special cartographic problems confronted in the portrayal of island regions and demands the use of specially developed software tools. One of the most commonly faced problems is the need of...
- 17From:Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFrom the 1880s until the 1970s, photomechanical techniques played an important role in map making. Images created by and for photography were manipulated to form the printing image(s) from which the map was reproduced...
- 18From:The Scientific World Journal (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedA novel hierarchical stereo matching algorithm is presented which gives disparity map as output from Illumination variant stereo pair. Illumination difference between two stereo images can lead to undesirable output....
- 19From:Abstracts of the ICA (Vol. 1) Peer-ReviewedSpatial information became ordinary for everyday life, for example in different kinds of maps. The majority of maps are produced for reading with eyes. Nevertheless, people with visual impairment, including blind people,...
- 20From:Abstracts of the ICA (Vol. 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1853, the United States sent Commodore Perry with 4 warships to Japan, and urged opening the country to the world. Since then, Japan had entered into treaties of commerce with Western nations, and opened the ports for...