Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Surveying and Mapping for Field Scientists
Author: Surveying and mapping for field scientists
Author: William RitchiePublisher:
ISBN: 9780470208465
Category : Aerial photogrammetry
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Surveying and Mapping for Field Scientists
Author: William RitchiePublisher: Longman Scientific and Technical
ISBN:
Category : Aerial photogrammetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
New edition of the textbook Mapping for field scientists, first published by David and Charles Pubs., 1977. A comprehensive, practical guide for the non-specialist who requires basic but broad grounding in the subject, by ground, air, and satellite methods, and in cartographic presentation of data. Photos, drawings, color plates. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ground and Air Survey for Field Scientists
Author: John WrightPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Textbook covering elementary field surveys, a general explanation of more complex and accurate methods as an introduction to advanced surveying, and a discussion of maps and map-making techniques. Useful as a field guide for amateurs who need to draw their own maps.
Mapping for Field Scientists
Author: William RitchiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerial photogrammetry
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Surveying for Field Scientists
Author: John Charles PughPublisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Thoreau the Land Surveyor
Author: Patrick ChuraPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813041476
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An insightful study of how Thoreau's profession as a surveyor impacts his environmental sensibility and informs his literary works; further, Chura shows that the manuscript surveys and corresponding field notes are themselves worthy of literary analysis. "--Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, coeditor of More Day to Dawn: Thoreau's Walden for the Twenty-first Century "Chura's thorough understanding of the cultural import and physical practice of 19th-century surveying provides a fresh and interesting perspective on Thoreau's life and works. . . . .He combines a spry writing style with meticulous research in this delightful book, which introduces readers to another side of Thoreau's life and thought. Highly recommended." --G. D. MacDonald, Virginia State University "Most books about Henry David Thoreau focus on his writing, philosophy, or literary vision, paying little attention to how he made a living while engaged in such transcendentalist pursuits. In Thoreau the Land Surveyor, Patrick Chura corrects this oversight." --Lorianne DiSabato, The New England Quarterly "A scholarly book that's as beautiful as it is unput-downable. . . Not only is Chura a fine writer here, he is one heck of a historian. He enriches every page with carefully considered research. . . .I loved this book from start to finish." --Mike Tidwell, author of The Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojourn. "An insightful study of how Thoreau's profession as a surveyor impacts his environmental sensibility and informs his literary works; further, Chura shows that the manuscript surveys and corresponding field notes are themselves worthy of literary analysis. "This book on the significance of land surveying to Henry Thoreau's writing is one that we have long needed. Chura's practical experience as a surveyor combined with his literary scholarship makes him the perfect person to write it."--Richard J. Schneider, editor ofHenry David Thoreau: A Documentary Volume Henry David Thoreau, one of America's most prominent environmental writers, supported himself as a land surveyor for much of his life, parceling land that would be sold off to loggers. In the only study of its kind, Patrick Chura analyzes this seeming contradiction to show how the best surveyor in Concord combined civil engineering with civil disobedience. Placing Thoreau's surveying in historical context, Thoreau the Land Surveyor explains the cultural and ideological implications of surveying work in the mid-nineteenth century. Chura explains the ways that Thoreau's environmentalist disposition and philosophical convictions asserted themselves even as he reduced the land to measurable terms and acted as an agent for bringing it under proprietary control. He also describes in detail Thoreau's 1846 survey of Walden Pond. By identifying the origins of Walden in--of all places--surveying data, Chura re-creates a previously lost supporting manuscript of this American classic.
Mapping for Field Scientists
Author: William RitchiePublisher:
ISBN: 9780715372722
Category : Aerial photography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Surveying and Mapping
Author: Archaeological Surveying and Mapping
Author: Philip HowardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134400861
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A comprehensive and practical guide to surveying for archaeologists, with clear instructions in archaeological mapping, recording field work and detailed case studies from the UK, Europe and the US. Philip Howard provides a user’s guide to methods and instruments of surveying to enable archaeologists to represent their own fieldwork confidently and independently. Archaeological Surveying is an invaluable resource which: provides beginner’s instructions to software used in computerised surveying, including IntelliCAD 2000, Terrain Tools, Christine GIS and Global Mapper introduces the archaeologist to a range of surveying instruments such as GPS, electronic distance measures, theodolites and magnetic compasses includes low-cost software. This textbook is an essential read for any field archaeologists who are in need of an introduction to surveying, or simply wish to update their techniques.