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Zusatztext 'The diversity of the topics and authors' backgrounds makes this book a good reference for researchers and practitioners in the areas of system development! sensor integration! imaging algorithms! mobile data management! and monitoring and decision making efforts.' 'The book offers a wide range of research topics in an organized and well-presented manner.''The book includes selected papers from experts in the field of mobile mapping technology! which provide readers with not only an overview of recent advances and future technological trends in the field but also detailed technical description of system components! hardware and software integration and applications.' From: PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING -JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING! vol. 74! no. 4 (April 2008)! pp 397/398. Informationen zum Autor Dr. C. Vincent Tao is Director of Microsoft Virtual Earth Business Unit. Prior to joining Microsoft! he was Canada Research Chair in Geomatics! Professor and the Director of the GeoICT Lab at York University in Toronto! Canada. He was the Conference Chair of MMT'2004. He is currently serving as Chair for the ISPRS WG III/3 (2004-2008). His research interest ranges from on-line mapping! 3D web! local search! Lidar and image based feature extraction and 3D modeling. Dr. Jonathan Li is Associate Professor! Department of Geography! University of Waterloo! Canada. From 2001-2006! he was Assistant/Associate Professor and the Director of GeoVELab at Ryerson University in Toronto. He was the Conference Secretary of MMT'2004. He is currently serving as Co-Chair for the ISPRS WG IV/8 (2004-2008). His research interests include remote sensing! 3D urban modeling! intelligent object extraction from imagery! spatial data integration for disaster management! and WebGIS. Klappentext Mobile mapping refers to a means of collecting geospatial data using mapping sensors mounted on a mobile platform. This book addresses a variety of research issues in the mobile mapping community! ranging from system development to sensor integration! imaging algorithms and mobile GIS applications. Zusammenfassung With the increasing availability of low-cost and portable sensors, mobile mapping has become more dynamic, and even pervasive. The book addresses a wide variety of research issues in the mobile mapping community, ranging from system development to sensor integration, imaging algorithms and mobile GIS applications. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Contributors Foreword: Advances in mobile mapping technology Part 1. Terrestrial and airborne mobile mapping systems Part 2. Multi-sensor integration Part 3. Image processing and object extraction Part 4. Mobile GIS and distributed GIS Author index Subject index ...
