Coastal Informatics - Web Atlas Design and Implementation

The field of web-based coastal atlas informatics presents experts with a variety of unique considerations in an area where accuracy is of vital importance and proper representation of spatial data come to the forefront. Coastal Informatics: Web Atlas Design and Implementation reviews and presents the latest developments in the emerging field of coastal web atlases through a series of case studies giving practical guidance on geographic data management and documentation through standards-based metadata, as well as making underlying geographic databases interoperable. Readers will find this book of practical use in Web atlas design, development and implementation, improving spatial thinking in the coastal context.

Zusammenfassung

Reviews and presents the developments in the emerging field of coastal web atlases through a series of case studies giving practical guidance on geographic data management and documentation through standards-based metadata, as well as making underlying geographic databases interoperable.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Valerie Cummins (Herausgeber), Ned Dwyer (Herausgeber), Dawn Wright (Herausgeber), Dawn J. Wright (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Information Science Reference
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.07.2010
• EAN: 9781615208159
• ISBN: 978-1-61520-815-9
• Seiten: 344
• Abmessung: 221 mm x 286 mm x 23 mm
• Gewicht: 1126 g
• Serie: Premier Reference Source
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Sonstiges; Ratgeber > Natur