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Book review in this Article PHOTOGRAMMETRY. Volume 2 Advanced methods and applications. By K. Kraus with contributions by J. Jensa and H. Kager. Fourth edition, translated into English by P. Stewardson. Dümmler Verlag, Bonn, 1997. ISBN 3 427 78694 3. 240 x164 mm. 466 pages. lllustrated. Price DM 88. ERROR PROPAGATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING WITH GIS. By G. B. M. Heuvelink. Taylor & Francis, London, 1998. ISBN 0 7484 0743 X (hardback), 0 7484 0744 8 (paperback). 233 × 156 mm. xviii + 127 pages. Price £24.95 paperback. GOVERNMENTS AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION. By I. Masser. Taylor & Francis Ltd., London, 1998. ISBN 07484 0789 8 (cased), ISBN 07484 0706 5 (paperback). 246 × 170 mm. xi + 120 pages. 10 figures, 6 colour plates and 10 tables. Price £19.95 paperback. AN INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS. By I. Heywood , S. Cornelius and S. Carver. Addison Wesley Longman Ltd., Harlow, 1998. ISBN 0 582 08940 9. 245 × 187 mm. xiv + 279 pages. Black and white illustrations and colour plates. Price £18.99paperback. EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES: OPPORTUNITIES AND PITFALLS. GISData series V. Edited by P. A. Burrough and I. Masser. European Science Foundation/Taylor & Francis Ltd., London, 1998. ISBN 0 7484 0755 3 (hardbac ISBN 0 7484 0756 1 (paperback). 252 × 173 mm. xv + 172 pages. 4 colour plates. Price £55–95 hardback, £26.95 paperback. INNOVATIONS IN GIS. Selected Papers from the Fifth National Conference on GIS Research UK (GISRUK). Edited by S. Carver. Taylor & Francis Ltd., London, 1998. ISBN 0 7484 0810 X. 252 × 174 mm. xxii + 246 pages. Numerous illustrations, including four colour plates. Price £69.95. SCALE IN REMOTE SENSING AND GIS. Edited by D. A. Quattrochi and M. F. Goodchild. Lewis Publishers, New York, 1997. ISBN 1 56670 104 X. 235 × 165 mm. 406 pages, 21 colour plates, including bibliographical references, index, many diagrams and illustrations. Price £48.00 hardback. PRACTICAL GEODESY: USING COMPUTERS. By M. Hooijberg. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1997. ISBN 3 540 61826 0. 273 x198 mm. xi + 308 pages. 69 figures and 21 tables. Price £49.00 hardback. GIS ONLINE: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, MAPPING, AND THE INTERNET. By B. Plewe. OnWord Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1997. ISBN 1 56690 137 5. 179 × 228 mm. xv + 311 pages. 99 figures. World Wide Web site containing supporting material and update information: http://kaycnta.geog.byu.edu/gisonline Price £29.95 paperback. ANALYSIS OF SAR DATA OF THE POLAR OCEANS: RECENT ADVANCES. Edited by C. Tsatsoulis . and R. Kwok . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998. ISBN 3 540 62802 9. 241 × 160 mm. vi + 290 pages. 125 figures, including 26 in colour, and 18 tables. Price £95.50 hardback. IMAGES OF THE EARTH: A GUIDE TO REMOTE SENSING. Second edition. By S. A. Drury. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998. ISBN 0 19 854997 0. 276 × 220 mm. viii + 203 pages. 201 illustrations, 2 tables. Price £25.00 paperback. EXPLORING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS. By N. R. Chrisman. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1997. ISBN 0 471 10842 1. 230 × 190 mm. xvi + 298 pages. 103 figures and 27 tables. Price £24.95 paperback.     

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Book review in this Article DIGITAL IMAGING. By R. Graham . Whittles Publishing, Caithness, 1998. ISBN 1 870325 12 5. 234 × 156 mm. 240 pages. 18 colour plates, 93 figures, 9 tables. Price £35.00 paperback. PARALLEL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS FOR GIS. Edited by R. Healey , S. Dowers , B. Gittings and M. Mineter . Taylor & Francis, London, 1998. ISBN 0 7484 0509 7. xviii + 460 pages. Price £24.95. FRAMEWORK FOR THE WORLD. Edited by D. Rhind . Geoinformation International, Cambridge, 1997. ISBN 1 8624 2021 1. 240 × 160 mm. 325 pages. Illustrated and 12 colour plates. Price £45.00 casebound. SEMANTIC MODELLING FOR THE ACQUISITION OF TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION FROM IMAGES AND MAPS. Edited by W. F$ourstner and L. Pl$uumer . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 1997. ISBN 3 7643 5758 4. 235 × 160 mm. 227 pages. Diagrams and illustrations. Price CHF88.00. GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER CARTOGRAPHY. By C. Jones . Addison Wesley Longman Ltd., Harlow, 1997. ISBN 0 582 04439 1. 190 × 245 mm. 319 pages. 16 colour plates, 202 black and white illustrations and 14 tables. Price £21.00 paperback. MAPPING: WAYS OF REPRESENTING THE WORLD. By D. Dorling and D. Fairbairn . (Insights into Human Geography Series.) Edited by P. Knox and S. Smith . Addison Wesley Longman Ltd., Harlow, 1997. ISBN 0 582 28972 6. 234 × 155 mm. vii + 184 pages. Price £11.99 softbound. MANUAL OF PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION. Second edition. Editor-in-chief W. R. Philipson . American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, MD, USA, 1997. ISBN 1 57083 039 8. 285 × 225 mm. xvi + 689 pages. 489 figures, including 87 in colour, and 75 tables. Price for non-members US$124.00. FLATTENING THE EARTH. TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF MAP PROJECTIONS. By J. P. Snyder . University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1997. ISBN 0 226 76747 7. 235 × 165 mm. xviii + 365 pages. 173 figures and 6 tables. Price £15.95 paperback. EUROPEAN SPACE DIRECTORY 1998. Thirteenth edition. Edited by D. Shirvanian . Sevig Press, Paris, 1998. ISSN 0765–0574. 270 × 210 mm. 324 pages. 1 figure and 43 tables. Price FFr965 paperback. TERMINOLOGIE DE TÉLÉDÉTECTION ET PHOTOGRAMMÉTRIE. By S. Paul , G. Ducher , I. Jobard , C.-H. Latarche and M. Lenco . Conseil International de la Langue Française, Paris, 1997. ISBN 2 85319 270 9. 247 × 168 mm. 455 pages. Price FFr250 hardback. AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF MAN-MADE OBJECTS FROM AERIAL AND SPACE IMAGES (II). Edited by A. Gruen , E. P. Baltsavias and O. Henricsson . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 1997. ISBN 3 7643 5788 6. 238 × 171 mm. ix + 393 pages. 241 figures and 25 tables. Price CHF128 casebound.     

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Book review in this Article PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS AND SIGNATURES IN REMOTE SENSING. Edited by G. Guyot and T. Phulpin . A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1997. ISBN 90 5410 917 3. Two volumes, each 172.254 mm. Volume 1: xiii + 390 pages; volume 2: x + 411 pages. Price NLG 225. MANUAL OF REMOTE SENSING, THIRD EDITION, VOLUME 2. PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF IMAGING RADAR. Edited by F. M. Henderson and A. J. Lewis . John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, in co-operation with the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 1998. ISBN 0 471 29406 3. 221.287 mm. xxv + 899 pages. 76 colour plates. Price US$198 hardback. GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS. PRINCIPLES, TECHNIQUES, APPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT. Second edition. Edited by P. A. Longley , M. F. Goodchild , D. J. Maguire and D. W. Rhind . John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1999. ISBN 0471 32182 6 hardback. Boxed set of two volumes. 200.270 mm. Volume 1: xcv + 580 pages, with 40 colour plates. Volume 2: xciii + 521 pages, with 66 colour plates. Price £195. FUTURE TRENDS IN REMOTE SENSING. Edited by P. GUDMANDSEN. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1998. ISBN 90 5410 933 5. 180.254mm. xii + 496 pages, including 18 pages of colour plates. Price NLG 205. INTERPRETATION OF AIRPHOTOS AND REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY. By R. H. Arnold . Prentice-Hall, Inc., New Jersey, USA, 1997. ISBN 0 02 303924 8. 225.274 mm. xiv + 250 pages. 189 figures, including 17 in colour. Price £21.95 spiral bound. GEOCOMPUTATION: A PRIMER. Edited by P. A. Longley , S. M. Brooks , R. Mc Donnell and W. Mac Millan . John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, 1998. ISBN 0 471 98575 9 clothbound, 0 471 98576 7 paperback. 168.244 mm. xii + 278 pages, plus 8 pages of colour plates. Price £22.50 paperback. DIRECTORY OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. Second edition. National Association of Aerial Photographic Libraries (NAPLIB), Dereham, 1999. ISBN 0 9530436 1 4. 210.297 mm. 132 pages. 8 plates and 3 figures. Price £40 (£20 to new members of NAPLIB and to members of the Photogrammetric Society). DIGITAL LANDSCAPE MODEL FOR EUROPE (DLME). By E. Blau , F. Boochs and B.-S. Schulz , with editorial assistance of P. R. T. Newby . OEEPE Official Publication No. 34. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie, Frankfurt am Main, 1997. ISSN 0257 0505. 175.245 mm. 108 pages. 21 figures, 9 tables, 4 diagrams and 15 appendices. Price DM 40. THE AGI SOURCE BOOK FOR GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1998/99. Edited by C. Corbin . Association for Geographic Information, London, 1998. ISBN 1 847059 314. 210.297 mm. 396 pages. 43 trade directories and 21 reference tables. Price £39.50 paperback.     

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Book review in this Article GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THE LAW: MAPPING THE LEGAL FRONTIERS. By G. Cho . John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, 1998. ISBN 0 471 94857 8. 158 × 236 mm. xix + 337 pages. 19 figures and 7 tables. Price £70 hardback. UNDERSTANDING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES. By C. J. Oliver and S. Quegan . Artech House, Inc., Norwood, USA, 1998. ISBN 0 89006 850 X. 160 × 235 mm. xxvii + 479 pages. 125 diagrams and illustrations. Price £79 hardback. REMOTE SENSING OF TROPICAL REGIONS. By E. A. Sharkov . John Wiley & Sons Ltd., in association with Praxis Publishing Ltd., Chichester, 1998. ISBN 0 471 97171 5. 172 × 247 mm. xvii + 310 pages, plus 8 pages of colour plates. 78 figures and 24 tables. Price £65 hardback. ELEMENTS OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY, WITH APPLICATIONS IN GIS. By P. R. Wolf and B. A. Dewitt . McGraw Hill, New York, 2000. ISBN 0 07 292454 3. 160 × 235 mm. xiii + 608 pages. Illustrated. Price US$60 hardback. THE WESTERN FRONT FROM THE AIR. By N. Watkis . Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1999. ISBN 0 7509 1338. 200 × 270 mm. ix + 130 pages. Illustrated. Price £20 hardback. ADVANCES IN REMOTE SENSING AND GIS ANALYSIS. Edited by P. M. Atkinson and N. J. Tate . John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, 1999. ISBN 0 471 98577 5. 174 × 251 mm. xiv + 273 pages, plus 4 pages of colour plates. Illustrated. Price £55 hardback. MANUAL OF REMOTE SENSING, THIRD EDITION, VOLUME 3. REMOTE SENSING FOR THE EARTH SCIENCES. Edited by A. N. Rencz . John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, USA, in co‐operation with the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 1999. ISBN 0471 29405 5. 184 × 260mm. xvi + 707 pages. 280 illustrations and tables and 53 colour plates. Price £128 hardback. MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES WITH GIS. By L. Lang . SERVING MAPS ON THE INTERNET. By C. Harder . Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., Redlands, California, USA, 1998. ISBN 1 879102 53 6 and ISBN 1 879102 52 8, respectively. Both 229 × 189 mm. ix + 117 pages and ix + 130 pages, respectively, both plus CD‐ROM. Illustrated. Price US$19.95 each, paperback. PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF OCEANS. By I. V. Cherny and V. Yu Raizer . John Wiley & Sons Ltd., in association with Praxis Publishing Ltd., Chichester, 1998. ISBN 0 471 97170 7. 172 × 247mm. viii + 195 pages. 127 illustrations, including 8 pages of colour plates. Price £55 hardback. VIDEO CAMERA TECHNOLOGY. By A. C. Luther . Artech House Inc., Norwood, USA, 1998. ISBN 0 89006 556 X. 160 × 235 mm. xvi + 312 pages. Black and white illustrations. Price £59 hardback. DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY, VOLUME I. By T. Schenk . TerraScience, Laurelville, U.S.A, 1999. ISBN 0 9677653 0 7 perfect bound; ISBN 0 9677653 1 5 case bound. 235 × 162mm. xx + 421 pages. 179 figures and 15 tables. Price US$49 perfect bound, US$69 case bound, plus package and postage. INFINITE PERSPECTIVES: TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF THREE‐DIMENSIONAL MAP‐MAKING. By B. M. Ambroziak and J. R. Ambroziak , with an introduction by R. Bradbury . Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1999. ISBN 1 56898 195 3. 382 × 325mm. 111 pages. 100 colour illustrations. Price £55 hardback. EVEREST—THE MAN AND THE MOUNTAIN. By J. R. Smith . Whittles Publishing, Caithness, 1999. ISBN 1 870325 72 9. 170 × 240mm. xiv + 306 pages. 45 figures and 5 appendices. Price £37.50 paperback. TEXT BOOKS ON REMOTE SENSING AND GIS. Remote Sensing Notes edited by Japan Association of Remote Sensing . GIS Notes by S. Murai . Asian Center for Research on Remote Sensing, Thailand, 1999. 140 × 130mm. Price unknown, CD‐ROM. REMOTE SENSING CHANGE DETECTION. Edited by R. S. Lunetta and C. D. Elvidge . Ann Arbor Press, Michigan, USA, 1998. ISBN 1 57504 037 9. 183 × 260mm. xviii + 318 pages. 20 colour plates, plus numerous illustrations. Price US$69.95 hardback. NORFOLK FROM THE AIR. VOLUME 2. Edited by P. Wade ‐Martins . Photography by D. Edwards . Norfolk Museums Service, Norwich, 1999. ISBN 0 903101 68 8. 212 × 284mm. 148 pages. 135 half page aerial photographs, 89 in black and white. Price £15.95 paperback.     

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Book review in this Article THE ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR). By A. P. Cracknell . Taylor & Francis Lid., London, 1997. ISBN 0 7484 0209 8. 173 × 253 mm. xi + 534 pages. 8 colour plates. Price £60 hardback. SPATIAL DATABASE TRANSFER STANDARDS 2: CHARACTERISTICS FOR ASSESSING STANDARDS AND FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS IN THE WORLD. Edited by H. Moellering . Published on behalf of the International Cartographic Association by Elsevier Science, Oxford, 1997. ISBN 0 0804 2433 3. 210 × 297 mm. 373 pages. Price $182 casebound. INTRODUCTION TO GEODESY. By J. R. Smith . John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1997. ISBN 0 471 16660 X. 156 × 230 mm. xv + 224 pages. 78 figures. Price £32.50 paperback. PHOTOGRAMMETRIE. Band 2, Verfeinerte Methoden und Anwendungen. Mit Beiträgen von J. Jansa und H. Kager. By K. Kraus . (Photogrammetry. Volume 2, Advanced methods and applications. With contributions by J. Jansa and H. Kager). Third edition. Dümmler Verlag, Bonn, 1996. ISBN 3 427 78653 6. 239 × 163 mm. 488 pages. 260 figures. In German. Price approximately 75 DM paperback. PHOTOGRAMMETRIE IN DER SCHWEIZ. Geschichte—Entwicklung. (Photogrammetry in Switzerland. History—Development). Edited by Schweizerische Gesellschaft FÜR Photogrammetrie , Bildanalyse und Fernerkundung (Swiss Society for Photogrammetry, Image Analysis and Remote Sensing). Dümmler Verlag, Bonn, 1996. ISBN 3 427 78721 4. 297 × 210 mm. 152 pages. 98 figures and an appendix with 8 colour maps. In German. Price approximately 60 DM hardback. GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM: THEORY AND PRACTICE. By B. Hofmann -Wellenhof , H. Lichtenegger and J. Collins . Springer, Vienna and New York, 1997. Fourth revised edition. ISBN 3 211 82839 7. 240 × 165 mm. xxiii + 389 pages. 45 figures and 76 tables. Price US $54.95 paperback. MATHS FOR MAP MAKERS. By A. L. Allan . Whittles Publishing, Caithness, Scotland, 1997. ISBN 1 870325 91 5. 156 × 230 mm. xiii + 305 pages. 16 figures. Price £19.95 paperback. DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY: AN ADDENDUM TO THE MANUAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY. Edited by C. Greve . American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, 1996. ISBN 1 57083 037 1. 286 × 225 mm. vii + 247 pages. 170 figures (7 in colour) and 33 tables. Price $90.00 (casebound), $62.00 ASPRS members, $35.00 students. AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF 250 YEARS OF MILITARY SURVEY. By Y. Hodson and A. Gordon . Military Survey Defence Agency, London, 1997. ISBN 0 9529730 07. 210 × 295 mm. 40 pages, 106 illustrations. Price £7 paperback. Copies are available from Gordonwood Associates, 1 Majorca Avenue, Andover, Hampshire. SP10 1JW     

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SPSE HANDBOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHIC SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. Edited by W. THOMAS.
THE FOCAL DICTIONARY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGIES. By D. A. S pencer .
HANDBOOK. OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES. By R. S anders and W. R. B radford .
A DESCRIPTION OF THE LAND IN COUNTY ALBERT, COUNTY ALFRED AND PART OF COUNTY EYRE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. By J. S. P otter , K. G. W etherby and D. J. C hittleborough .
MURRAY NEW TOWN SITE SELECTION: A PRELIMINARY SOIL AND LAND FORM SURVEY. By D. C hittleborough and M. W right .
LES RECHERCHES EXPÉRIMENTALES EXÉCUTÉES SUR DE LONGUES BANDES PAR LA COMMISSION A DE ĽOEEPE. By C. T rombetti .
GEOLOGY OF THE MOON. By T. A. M utch .     

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REMOTE SENSING FOR RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. Edited by M. C. J. Damen, G. Sicco Smit and H. T. Verstappen.
IMAGING RADAR FOR RESOURCES SURVEYS. By J. W. Trevett.
A UK GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING, RESOURCE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT CAPABLE OF INTEGRATING AND USING SATELLITE REMOTELY SENSED DATA. By J. A. T. Young.
SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING FOR RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT. Edited by K.-H. Szekielda.
REMOTE SENSING AND TROPICAL LAND MANAGEMENT. Edited by M. J. Eden and J. T. Parry.
COMPUTATIONAL MODELS IN SURVEYING AND PHOTOGRAMMETRY. By B. D. F. Methley.
REVISION OF 1:25000 TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS BY PHOTOGRAMMETRIC METHODS. By E. Spiess.
RESULTS OF THE VIENNA TEST OF OEEPE COMMISSION C. By P. Waldhäusl. PHOTOGRAMMETRIC VERSUS TERRESTRIAL TOWN SURVEY. By O. Kölbl.
OPTIMAL EMULSIONS FOR LARGE SCALE MAPPING (TEST OF "STEINWEDEL"). By M. Jaakkola, W. Brindöpke, O. Kölbl and P. Noukka.     

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MONITORING BUILDING STRUCTURES. Edited by J. F. A. M oore .
POSTCODES: THE NEW GEOGRAPHY. By J. F. R aper , D. W. R hind and J. W. S hepherd .
TEST OF TRIANGULATION OF SPOT DATA. Edited by I. J. D owman .
EUROPEAN SPACE DIRECTORY 1992. Seventh edition. Endorsed by Eurospace. Edited by D. S hirvanian .
WISSENSBASIERTE METHODEN ZUR FERNERKUNDUNG DER UMWELT. Edited by O. G ünther and W.-F. R iekert .
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ISPRS AND OEEPE JOINT WORKSHOP ON UPDATING DIGITAL DATA BY PHOTOGRAMMETRIC METHODS, CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND, 15–17 SEPTEMBER 1991. Edited by P. R. T. N ewby and C. N. T hompson .
GLIMPSES OF WORLD WAR By W. P. Roe.
A GUIDE TO MAP AND IMAGE PROCESSING By M. P. S krdla .
MULTIPHOTO GEOMETRICALLY CONSTRAINED MATCHING. By E. P. B altsavias .
DIGITALE PHOTOGRAMMETRIE IN DER DREIDIMENSIONALEN STRÖMUNGSMESSTECHNIK. By H.-G. M aas .
LONDON. AN AEROFILMS GUIDE. By I. T homson .
THE SOUTH DEVON COAST PATH: AN AEROFILMS GUIDE. By D. H annigan .
THE COTSWOLD WAY: AN AEROFILMS GUIDE. By T. F ryer .
THE SOUTH DOWNS WAY: AN AEROFILMS GUIDE. By J. G odfrey .
SURVEYING. Sixth edition. By A. B annister , S. R aymond and R. B aker .
INSTRUMENT MAKERS TO THE WORLD: A HISTORY OF COOKE, TROUGHTON AND SIMMS. By A. M c C onnell .
TRANSIT CIRCLE–THE STORY OF WILLIAM SIMMS 1793–1860. By E. M ennim .
TERRA-1: UNDERSTANDING THE TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT. THE ROLE OF EARTH OBSERVATIONS FROM SPACE. Edited by P. M. M ather .
SPACE. By R. G ibson .
KATASTER-ABC. Second edition. By O. K riegel and D. D resbach .     

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Book reviwed in this article SAR GEOCODING: DATA AND SYSTEMS. Edited by G. Schreier . INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL REMOTE SENSING. Third edition. By E. C. Barrett and L. F. Curtis . EUROPEAN SPACE DIRECTORY 1993. Eighth edition. Endorsed by Eurospace. Edited by D. Shirvanian . GEOMETRY, RELATIVITY, GEODESY. By H. Moritz and B. Hofmann -Wellenhof . TRATTATO DI FOTOGRAMMETRIA URBANA E ARCHITETTONICA. By M. Fondelli . LE RELEVE ET LA REPRESENTATION DE ?ARCHITECTURE. By J.-P. Saint Aubin . MEASUREMENT AND RECORDING OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS. By P. Swallow , D. Watt and R. Ashton . RELEVES PHOTOGRAMMETRIQUES DU PATRIMOINE EN REGIONS SISMIQUES. By M. Carbonnell . MAP GENERALIZATION: MAKING RULES FOR KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION. Edited by B. P. Buttenfield and R. B. Mc Master . COMPILATION OF CARTOGRAPHIC AND SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR THEMATIC/TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING. By U. Frei . PRACTICAL SURVEYING AND COMPUTATIONS. Second edition. By A. L. Allan . IMAGE PROCESSING, ANALYSIS AND MACHINE VISION. By M. Sonka , V. Hlavac and R. Boyle . SATELLITE GEODESY: FOUNDATIONS, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS. By G. Seeber . VIDEOMETRICS. Edited by S. F. El -Hakim . GEOMETRIC AND RADIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A CCD-CAMERA BASED PHOTOGRAMMETRIC CLOSE-RANGE SYSTEM. By H. A. Beyer . AUSTRALIA ON PAPER: THE STORY OF AUSTRALIAN MAPPING. By J. D. Lines. VISUALIZATION IN BIOMEDICAL MICROSCOPIES: 3-D IMAGING AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS. Edited by A. Kriete . INTEGRATING PHOTOGRAMMETRIC TECHNIQUES WITH SCENE ANALYSIS AND MACHINE VISION. Edited by E. B. Barrett and D. M. Mc Keown . STATE-OF-THE-ART MAPPING. Edited by B. P. Clark , A. Douglas , B. L. Foley , B. Huberty and L. D. Whitmill . STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYS AND APPLICATIONS IV. Edited by J. O. Merritt and S. S. Fisher . PROCEEDINGS OF THE OEEPE WORKSHOP ON DATA QUALITY IN LAND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, APELDOORN, NETHERLANDS, 4-6 SEPTEMBER 1991. Edited by L. A. Koen and O. Kölbl . CONTOURING: A GUIDE TO THE ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY OF SPATIAL DATA. By D. F. Watson .     

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COMPUTERS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL DATA. By E. E. Shiryaev.
CURVE AND SURFACE FITTING: AN INTRODUCTION. By P. L ancaster and K. Š alkauskas .
ACTES DU COLLOQUE FI3G.
DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF ICE. By E. O. L ewis , B. W. C urrie and S. H aykin .
CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES. By I. L. T homas , V. M. B enning and N. P. C hing .
NORFOLK FROM THE AIR. Edited by P. W ade -M artins .
INFLUENCES OF REPRODUCTION TECHNIQUES ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF TOPOGRAPHIC DETAILS ON ORTHOPHOTOMAPS. By C ommission E (President W. H ofmann ) European Organisation for Experimental Photogrammetric Research.     

On calculating the Earth's C21 and S21 gravity coefficients in the IERS terrestrial reference frame

Modern models of the Earth's gravity field are developed in the IERS (International Earth Rotation Service) terrestrial reference frame. In this frame the mean values for gravity coefficients of the second degree and first order, C ₂₁(IERS) and S ₂₁(IERS), by the current IERS Conventions are recommended to be calculated by using the observed polar motion parameters. Here, it is proved that the formulae presently employed by the IERS Conventions to obtain these coefficients are insufficient to ensure their values as given by the same source. The relevant error of the normalized mean values for C ₂₁(IERS) and S ₂₁(IERS) is 3×10⁻¹², far above the adopted cutoff (10⁻¹³) for variations of these coefficients. Such an error in C ₂₁ and S ₂₁ can produce non-modeled perturbations in motion prediction of certain artificial Earth satellites of a magnitude comparable to the accuracy of current tracking measurements. Received: 14 September 1998 / Accepted: 20 May 1999     

The reduction correction in North America

An inverse Poisson integral technique has been used to determine a gravity field on the geoid which, when continued by analytic free space methods to the topographic surface, agrees with the observed field. The computation is performed in three stages, each stage refining the previous solution using data at progressively increasing resolution (1^o×1^o, 5′×5′, 5/8′×5/8′) from a decreasing area of integration. Reduction corrections are computed at 5/8′×5/8′ granularity by differencing the geoidal and surface values, smoothed by low-pass filtering and sub-sampled at 5′ intervals. This paper discusses 1^o×1^o averages of the reduction corrections thus obtained for 172 1^o×1^o squares in western North America. The 1^o×1^o mean reduction corrections are predominantly positive, varying from −3 to +15mgal, with values in excess of 5mgal for 26 squares. Their mean andrms values are +2.4 and 3.6mgal respectively and they correlate well with the mean terrain corrections as predicted byPellinen in 1962. The mean andrms contributions from the three stages of computation are: 1^o×1^o stage +0.15 and 0.7mgal; 5′×5′ stage +1.0 and 1.6mgal; and 5/8′×5/8′ stage +1.3 and 1.8mgal. These results reflect a tendency for the contributions to become larger and more systematically positive as the wavelengths involved become shorter. The results are discussed in terms of two mechanisms; the first is a tendency for the absolute values of both positive and negative anomalies to become larger when continued downwards and, the second, a non-linear rectification, due to the correlation between gravity anomaly and topographic height, which results in the values continued to a level surface being systematically more positive than those on the topography.     

INTERPOLATING FROM TRAVERSE TABLES TO SECONDS

Abstract

In the Empire Survey Review, no. 4, 1932, Mr. Clendinning has described a method of interpolating from traverse tables to seconds. Below is another method, due to Prof. Nekrassov, for use with traverse tables published by him. The method is described in The Geodezist, Moscow, 1936, no. I, pp. 47–52.     

World Geodetic Datum 2000

 Based on the current best estimates of fundamental geodetic parameters {W ₀,GM,J ₂,Ω} the form parameters of a Somigliana-Pizzetti level ellipsoid, namely the semi-major axis a and semi-minor axis b (or equivalently the linear eccentricity ) are computed and proposed as a new World Geodetic Datum 2000. There are six parameters namely the four fundamental geodetic parameters {W ₀,GM,J ₂,Ω} and the two form parameters {a,b} or {a,ɛ}, which determine the ellipsoidal reference gravity field of Somigliana-Pizzetti type constraint to two nonlinear condition equations. Their iterative solution leads to best estimates a=(6 378 136.572±0.053)m, b=(6 356 751.920 ± 0.052)m, ɛ=(521 853.580±0.013)m for the tide-free geoide of reference and a=(6 378 136.602±0.053)m, b=(6 356 751.860±0.052)m, ɛ=(521 854.674 ± 0.015)m for the zero-frequency tide geoid of reference. The best estimates of the form parameters of a Somigliana-Pizzetti level ellipsoid, {a,b}, differ significantly by −0.39 m, −0.454 m, respectively, from the data of the Geodetic Reference System 1980. Received: 1 February 1999 / Accepted: 31 August 1999     

Earth＇s Temporal Principal Moments of Inertia and Variable Rotation

Based on the gravity field models EGM96 and EIGEN-GL04C, the Earth＇s time-dependent principal moments of inertia A, B, C are obtained, and the variable rotation of the Earth is determined. Numerical results show that A, B, and C have increasing tendencies; the tilt of the rotation axis increases 2.1×10^ 8 mas/yr; the third component of the rotational angular velocity, ω3 , has a decrease of 1.0×10^ 22 rad/s^2, which is around 23% of the present observed value. Studies show in detail that both 0 and ω3 experience complex fluctuations at various time scales due to the variations of A, B and C.     

Ultra-high degree spherical harmonic analysis and synthesis using extended-range arithmetic

We present software for spherical harmonic analysis (SHA) and spherical harmonic synthesis (SHS), which can be used for essentially arbitrary degrees and all co-latitudes in the interval (0°, 180°). The routines use extended-range floating-point arithmetic, in particular for the computation of the associated Legendre functions. The price to be paid is an increased computation time; for degree 3,000, the extended-range arithmetic SHS program takes 49 times longer than its standard arithmetic counterpart. The extended-range SHS and SHA routines allow us to test existing routines for SHA and SHS. A comparison with the publicly available SHS routine GEOGFG18 by Wenzel and HARMONIC SYNTH by Holmes and Pavlis confirms what is known about the stability of these programs. GEOGFG18 gives errors <1 mm for latitudes [-89°57.5′, 89°57.5′] and maximum degree 1,800. Higher degrees significantly limit the range of acceptable latitudes for a given accuracy. HARMONIC SYNTH gives good results up to degree 2,700 for almost the whole latitude range. The errors increase towards the North pole and exceed 1 mm at latitude 82° for degree 2,700. For a maximum degree 3,000, HARMONIC SYNTH produces errors exceeding 1 mm at latitudes of about 60°, whereas GEOGFG18 is limited to latitudes below 45°. Further extending the latitudinal band towards the poles may produce errors of several metres for both programs. A SHA of a uniform random signal on the sphere shows significant errors beyond degree 1,700 for the SHA program SHA by Heck and Seitz.     

An alternative algebraic algorithm to transform Cartesian to geodetic coordinates

The algorithm to transform from 3D Cartesian to geodetic coordinates is obtained by solving the equation of the Lagrange parameter. Numerical experiments show that geodetic height can be recovered to 0.5 mm precision over the range from −6×10⁶ to 10¹⁰ m. Electronic Supplementary Material: Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at     

Code as Cartography

Abstract

Provincial Atlas of People's Republic of China (Chung hua ien min kung wo kuo fên shêng di t'u chi). 190 x 265 mm. pp. 251 (84 pages of maps). Peking: Map Publishing Society (di t'u ch'u p'an shê), China, Oct., 1974. 6.30 Yuan     

Tectonic plate motion and co-seismic steps surveyed by DORIS field beacons: the New Hebrides experiment

 The New Hebrides experiment consisted of setting up a pair of DORIS beacons in remote tropical islands in the southwestern Pacific, between 1993 and 1997. Because of orbitography requirements on TOPEX/Poséidon, the beacons were only transmitting to SPOT satellites. Root-mean-square (RMS) scatters at the centimeter level on the latitude and vertical components were achieved, but 2-cm RMS scatters affected the longitude component. Nevertheless, results of relative velocity (123 mm/year N250°) are very consistent with those obtained using the global positioning system (GPS) (126 mm/yr N246°). The co-seismic step (12 mm N60°) related to the Walpole event (M _W = 7.7) is consistent with that derived from GPS (10 mm N30°) or from the centroid moment tensor (CMT) of the quake (12 mm N000°). Received: 19 November 1999 / Accepted: 17 May 2000