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Spatial Computing

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: MIT Press 2020 CambridgeDescription: 231pISBN:
  • 9780262538046
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910.285 SHE
Summary: This book explains the technologies and ideas behind spatial computing. It offers accessible descriptions of GPS and location-based services, including the use of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and RFID for position determination out of satellite range; remote sensing, which uses satellite and aerial platforms to monitor such varied phenomena as global food production, the effects of climate change, and subsurface natural resources on other planets; geographic information systems (GIS), which store, analyze, and visualize spatial data; spatial databases, which store multiple forms of spatial data; and spatial statistics and spatial data science, used to analyze location-related data.
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1: What Is Spatial Computing? 2: Where Am I? Positioning, Outdoors and Indoors 3: What's There? Remote Sensing 4: Geographic Information Systems and Cartography 5: Spatial Databases 6: Spatial Data Science 7: The Future of Spatial Computing

This book explains the technologies and ideas behind spatial computing. It offers accessible descriptions of GPS and location-based services, including the use of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and RFID for position determination out of satellite range; remote sensing, which uses satellite and aerial platforms to monitor such varied phenomena as global food production, the effects of climate change, and subsurface natural resources on other planets; geographic information systems (GIS), which store, analyze, and visualize spatial data; spatial databases, which store multiple forms of spatial data; and spatial statistics and spatial data science, used to analyze location-related data.

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