Geoscience Geological Engineering Luis Gonzalez de Vallejo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Mercedes Ferrer, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid
6000 Broken Sound Parkway, NW, Suite 300 Boca Raton, FL 33487, USA
www.crctextbooks.com
“… a standard work, of interest for a wide group of users, in a broad range of geologically differing areas, as a support in the application of geology to research, design and construction in civil engineering.“ —Floris Schokking, GeoConsult B.V., Haarlem
January 2011, 700 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-41352-7, £76.99
Introduction to Process Geomorphology Vijay K. Sharma, Kurukshetra University (retired), India An introduction to the dynamics of internal geologic processes of the earth, this book explains the origin of landforms by the processes involved in their evolution. The author expresses process activities in mathematical, empirical, and semi-empirical perspectives to highlight their distinctive identity in specific environmental stress conditions. Each chapter reviews, synthesizes, and provides recent findings and understanding of the complexity of geomorphic processes. April 2010, 435 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4398-0337-0, £80.99
Geology Basics for Engineers Aurele Parriaux, Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland “The pedagogic value of the book is underlined by exercises throughout the chapters. An accompanying DVD contains the solutions to problems and also animations that make the description of geology much more dynamic and alive. … I highly recommend the book …” —Paul G. Marinos, Past President of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG), Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, School of Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Dept., Athens, Greece
August 2009, c. 590 pp., Soft Cover, ISBN: 978-0-415-46165-8, £69.99
eBooks Available Autumn 2012 Same Great Content, Flexible Formats eBooks allow students to: • Rent or purchase. • Share highlights and notes with classmates. • Access by download, online, or on a mobile device.
Single Piles and Pile Groups Under Lateral Loading 2nd Edition Lymon C. Reese, University of Texas, Austin, USA Willem van Impe, Ghent University, Belgium This second edition of Lymon C. Reese and Willem van Impe’s book has been extensively revised to suit the classroom setting. New features include homework problems with solutions presented in the student version of the software as well as new and updated case studies that are consistent with modern methods of the characterization of soil properties. January 2011, 532 pp., Pack, ISBN: 978-0-415-46988-3, £80.99
Design Analysis in Rock Mechanics Second Edition William G. Pariseau, University of Utah, USA “… sufficiently wide and deep in its coverage of rock mechanics concepts applied to mine design to deserve a place on the bookshelf of every mining geotechnical engineer, and in the library at every mine site.“ —IJRMMS 44 (2007), 1172 - 1176
September 2011, 698 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-89339-8, £57.99
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GIS, GPS, and Remote Sensing Geomatics Engineering A Practical Guide to Project Design
City Planning for Civil Engineers, Environmental Engineers, and Surveyors
Image Analysis, Classification, and Change Detection in Remote Sensing
Clement A. Ogaja
Kurt W. Bauer
With Algorithms for ENVI/IDL, Second Edition
California State University, Fresno, USA
This nuts-and-bolts resource examines key components and aspects of land surveying and geomatics projects. It reviews the experience of past projects and identifies priority areas of attention for planning new projects. Ideal for students, the text guides readers through the project design and request-forproposal process commonly used for soliciting professional geomatics engineering services. The author provides an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility, the impact of engineering solutions in a global and social context, and a host of other contemporary issues such as budgetary and scheduling constraints. • Provides a simple guide on key concepts of project design for land surveyors • Presents examples with various tables and charts, graphically designed to communicate important information in an easy-to-understand format • Offers a thorough exploration of contemporary issues of project design • Contains case examples from real-life past projects • Includes end-of-chapter questions on the key concepts covered
Selected Contents: Overview: Project Design Process. Contemporary Issues: Standards and Specifications. Professional and Ethical Responsibilities. Policy, Social, and Environmental Issues. Planning and Design: Boundary Surveys. Control Surveys. Topographic Surveys. GIS Application. Proposal Development: Estimating Project Costs. Writing Geomatics Proposals. Appendices: Appendix A: Resource Guide for Geomatics Projects. Appendix B: Sample Geodetic Standards–FGCC 1984. Index.
SE Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, USA
“I highly recommend City Planning for Civil Engineers, Environmental Engineers, and Surveyors as an authoritative resource for those new to the land-use arena and to those wanting to improve their knowledge and add value to their land surveying practices. It deserves a place on the bookshelf of any land surveyor whose practice includes urban land development.” —Jeff Salmon, in Professional Surveyor Magazine
An introduction to land use planning, this book covers infrastructure systems planning and development. It stresses basic concepts and the most widely practiced principles involved in urban planning, particularly in small and medium sized communities. Written from the perspective that cities are social and economic as well as physical entities, the book offers a historical context for urban planning.
Selected Contents: Introduction. Definition of Terminology. The Historic Context of Urban Planning in the United States. Compilation of Essential Data: A Brief Overview. Map Requirements For City Planning. Population Data and Forecast. Economics Data and Forecasts. Land Use and Supporting Infrastructure Data. Natural Resource Base Inventories. Institutional Structure for City Planning and the Comprehensive Plan. Objectives, Principles, and Standards. Land Use Planning. Neighborhood Unit Concept. Principles of Good Land Subdivision Design. Street Patterns and Transportation Planning. Other Plan Elements. Plan Implementation – Land Subdivision Control. Plan Implementation – Zoning. The Official Map. Capital Improvement Programming. September 2009, 368 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4398-0892-4, £61.99
Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing
Third Edition
Emilio Chuvieco
Michael Kennedy
Alfredo Huete
Edited by Universidad de Alcala, Spain
• Includes a CD-ROM with GPS data sets for exercises in Trimble SSF and ESRI shapefile formats—plus other valuable learning resources
Updated to cover the latest versions of the ENVI software environment, the new edition of this popular text covers support vector machines and other kernelbased methods. Illustrating many programming examples in the array-oriented language IDL, the text covers basic Fourier, wavelet, principal components and minimum noise fraction transformations; convolution filters, topographic modeling, image-to-image registration and ortho-rectification; image fusion; supervised and unsupervised land cover classification with neural networks; hyperspectral analysis; multivariate change detection.
Selected Contents: Images, Arrays, and Matrices. Image Statistics. Transformations. Filters, Kernels, and Fields. Image Enhancement and Correction. Supervised Classification: Part 1. Supervised Classification: Part 2. Unsupervised Classification. Change Detection. Appendix A: Mathematical Tools. Appendix B: Efficient Neural Network Training Algorithms. Appendix C: ENVI Extensions in IDL. Appendix D: Mathematical Notation. References. December 2009, 471 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4200-8713-0, £82.99
GPS for Land Surveyors Third Edition Van Sickle LLC, Denver, Colorado, USA
The Global Positioning System and ArcGIS
Describing GPS and its applications to GIS, this book reviews the capabilities, features, and procedures common to most receivers and software allowing the information to be applied to a variety of products. Updates to this edition include ArcGis Desktop, ESRI software, and a CD-ROM with GPS data sets for exercises in Trimble SSF and ESRI shapefile formats—plus other valuable learning resources.
Juelich Research Center, Germany
Jan Van Sickle
September 2010, 296 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4398-1743-8, £66.99
University of Kentucky, Dept. of Geography Lexington, Ky. 40506
Morton J. Canty
University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
“The organization of this book lends itself to use as a practitioner’s reference or as a remote sensing course textbook with its progression through the various topics needing consideration from image acquisition to product delivery… it expounds on a number of topics typically not addressed in detail in other publications. … the mathematical step-by-step approach to image correction is very useful. … warrants consideration as a primary or a secondary text for the practitioner or for academia.” — Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, November 2010
Providing an accessible introduction to the subject, this third edition offers a practical guide to the techniques used in real GPS surveying. It explores the latest advances in the field, covering new topics such as block IIF and control segment modernization. The text also features an in-depth discussion of the GNSS.
Selected Contents: The GPS Signal. Biases and Solutions. The Framework. Receivers and Methods. Coordinates. Planning a Survey. Observing. Postprocessing. RTK and DGPS. GPS Modernization. What Have We Done So Far? GPS Codes Again. New Codes. Block IIF. Control Segment Modernization. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). May 2008, 360 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8493-9195-8, £61.99
Remote Sensing of the Mine Environment Sebnem Duzgun and Nuray Demirel
• Covers the capabilities and features common to most receivers
Providing an extensive review of remote sensing principles with emphasis on environmental applications, this book discusses a wide range of topics, from physical principles to data acquisition systems as well as visual and digital interpretation techniques. This book presents new interpretation approaches including hyperspectral analysis, high-spatial resolution data, fusion techniques, and radiative transfer models.
Comprehensive in scope, this volume provides an introduction to monitoring the environmental impacts of mining activities, such as mine subsidence monitoring slope stability monitoring, reclamation planning and implementation, and post closure mine monitoring. Featuring self-contained chapters, it is enhanced with illustrative case studies that demonstrate how to apply different remote sensing data as well as techniques for different mine monitoring purposes.
• Supplies a solutions manual to instructors upon qualifying course adoption
Selected Contents:
Selected Contents
Selected Contents:
Introduction. Physical Principles of Remote Sensing. Sensors and Remote Sensing Satellites. Basis for the Interpretation of Remote Sensing Images. Visual Interpretation. Digital Image Processing (I): Enhancements and Corrections. Digital Image Processing (II): Generation of Thematic Information. Accuracy Assessment. References. Appendices.
Introduction to Mine Environmental Monitoring. Principles of Remote Sensing. Interpretation of Remotely Sensed Imagery. Integration of Remote Sensing with GIS. Remote Sensing in Mine Subsistence Monitoring. Remote Sensing in Slope Stability Monitoring. Remote Sensing in Mine Reclamation Planning. Monitoring of Post Mine Land use/cover with Remote Sensing.
• Provides step-by-step guidance on applying the concepts using GPS hardware or a PC • Presents an overview of concepts and self-study projects and exercises in each chapter
Basic Concepts (Step-by-Step in all chapters). Automated Data Collection. Examining GPS Data. Differential Correction. ArcGIS Desktop, ArcData, and GPS. Integrating GPS Data with GIS Data. Beyond the Basics. The Present and the Future. July 2009, 312 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4200-8799-4, £69.99
CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group
December 2009, 448 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-31084-0, £66.99
August 2011, 220 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-87879-1, £49.99
Request your complimentary exam copy today!
www.crctextbooks.com
GIS, GPS, and Remote Sensing Geomatics Engineering A Practical Guide to Project Design
City Planning for Civil Engineers, Environmental Engineers, and Surveyors
Image Analysis, Classification, and Change Detection in Remote Sensing
Clement A. Ogaja
Kurt W. Bauer
With Algorithms for ENVI/IDL, Second Edition
California State University, Fresno, USA
This nuts-and-bolts resource examines key components and aspects of land surveying and geomatics projects. It reviews the experience of past projects and identifies priority areas of attention for planning new projects. Ideal for students, the text guides readers through the project design and request-forproposal process commonly used for soliciting professional geomatics engineering services. The author provides an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility, the impact of engineering solutions in a global and social context, and a host of other contemporary issues such as budgetary and scheduling constraints. • Provides a simple guide on key concepts of project design for land surveyors • Presents examples with various tables and charts, graphically designed to communicate important information in an easy-to-understand format • Offers a thorough exploration of contemporary issues of project design • Contains case examples from real-life past projects • Includes end-of-chapter questions on the key concepts covered
Selected Contents: Overview: Project Design Process. Contemporary Issues: Standards and Specifications. Professional and Ethical Responsibilities. Policy, Social, and Environmental Issues. Planning and Design: Boundary Surveys. Control Surveys. Topographic Surveys. GIS Application. Proposal Development: Estimating Project Costs. Writing Geomatics Proposals. Appendices: Appendix A: Resource Guide for Geomatics Projects. Appendix B: Sample Geodetic Standards–FGCC 1984. Index.
SE Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, USA
“I highly recommend City Planning for Civil Engineers, Environmental Engineers, and Surveyors as an authoritative resource for those new to the land-use arena and to those wanting to improve their knowledge and add value to their land surveying practices. It deserves a place on the bookshelf of any land surveyor whose practice includes urban land development.” —Jeff Salmon, in Professional Surveyor Magazine
An introduction to land use planning, this book covers infrastructure systems planning and development. It stresses basic concepts and the most widely practiced principles involved in urban planning, particularly in small and medium sized communities. Written from the perspective that cities are social and economic as well as physical entities, the book offers a historical context for urban planning.
Selected Contents: Introduction. Definition of Terminology. The Historic Context of Urban Planning in the United States. Compilation of Essential Data: A Brief Overview. Map Requirements For City Planning. Population Data and Forecast. Economics Data and Forecasts. Land Use and Supporting Infrastructure Data. Natural Resource Base Inventories. Institutional Structure for City Planning and the Comprehensive Plan. Objectives, Principles, and Standards. Land Use Planning. Neighborhood Unit Concept. Principles of Good Land Subdivision Design. Street Patterns and Transportation Planning. Other Plan Elements. Plan Implementation – Land Subdivision Control. Plan Implementation – Zoning. The Official Map. Capital Improvement Programming. September 2009, 368 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4398-0892-4, £61.99
Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing
Third Edition
Emilio Chuvieco
Michael Kennedy
Alfredo Huete
Edited by Universidad de Alcala, Spain
• Includes a CD-ROM with GPS data sets for exercises in Trimble SSF and ESRI shapefile formats—plus other valuable learning resources
Updated to cover the latest versions of the ENVI software environment, the new edition of this popular text covers support vector machines and other kernelbased methods. Illustrating many programming examples in the array-oriented language IDL, the text covers basic Fourier, wavelet, principal components and minimum noise fraction transformations; convolution filters, topographic modeling, image-to-image registration and ortho-rectification; image fusion; supervised and unsupervised land cover classification with neural networks; hyperspectral analysis; multivariate change detection.
Selected Contents: Images, Arrays, and Matrices. Image Statistics. Transformations. Filters, Kernels, and Fields. Image Enhancement and Correction. Supervised Classification: Part 1. Supervised Classification: Part 2. Unsupervised Classification. Change Detection. Appendix A: Mathematical Tools. Appendix B: Efficient Neural Network Training Algorithms. Appendix C: ENVI Extensions in IDL. Appendix D: Mathematical Notation. References. December 2009, 471 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4200-8713-0, £82.99
GPS for Land Surveyors Third Edition Van Sickle LLC, Denver, Colorado, USA
The Global Positioning System and ArcGIS
Describing GPS and its applications to GIS, this book reviews the capabilities, features, and procedures common to most receivers and software allowing the information to be applied to a variety of products. Updates to this edition include ArcGis Desktop, ESRI software, and a CD-ROM with GPS data sets for exercises in Trimble SSF and ESRI shapefile formats—plus other valuable learning resources.
Juelich Research Center, Germany
Jan Van Sickle
September 2010, 296 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4398-1743-8, £66.99
University of Kentucky, Dept. of Geography Lexington, Ky. 40506
Morton J. Canty
University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
“The organization of this book lends itself to use as a practitioner’s reference or as a remote sensing course textbook with its progression through the various topics needing consideration from image acquisition to product delivery… it expounds on a number of topics typically not addressed in detail in other publications. … the mathematical step-by-step approach to image correction is very useful. … warrants consideration as a primary or a secondary text for the practitioner or for academia.” — Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, November 2010
Providing an accessible introduction to the subject, this third edition offers a practical guide to the techniques used in real GPS surveying. It explores the latest advances in the field, covering new topics such as block IIF and control segment modernization. The text also features an in-depth discussion of the GNSS.
Selected Contents: The GPS Signal. Biases and Solutions. The Framework. Receivers and Methods. Coordinates. Planning a Survey. Observing. Postprocessing. RTK and DGPS. GPS Modernization. What Have We Done So Far? GPS Codes Again. New Codes. Block IIF. Control Segment Modernization. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). May 2008, 360 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8493-9195-8, £61.99
Remote Sensing of the Mine Environment Sebnem Duzgun and Nuray Demirel
• Covers the capabilities and features common to most receivers
Providing an extensive review of remote sensing principles with emphasis on environmental applications, this book discusses a wide range of topics, from physical principles to data acquisition systems as well as visual and digital interpretation techniques. This book presents new interpretation approaches including hyperspectral analysis, high-spatial resolution data, fusion techniques, and radiative transfer models.
Comprehensive in scope, this volume provides an introduction to monitoring the environmental impacts of mining activities, such as mine subsidence monitoring slope stability monitoring, reclamation planning and implementation, and post closure mine monitoring. Featuring self-contained chapters, it is enhanced with illustrative case studies that demonstrate how to apply different remote sensing data as well as techniques for different mine monitoring purposes.
• Supplies a solutions manual to instructors upon qualifying course adoption
Selected Contents:
Selected Contents
Selected Contents:
Introduction. Physical Principles of Remote Sensing. Sensors and Remote Sensing Satellites. Basis for the Interpretation of Remote Sensing Images. Visual Interpretation. Digital Image Processing (I): Enhancements and Corrections. Digital Image Processing (II): Generation of Thematic Information. Accuracy Assessment. References. Appendices.
Introduction to Mine Environmental Monitoring. Principles of Remote Sensing. Interpretation of Remotely Sensed Imagery. Integration of Remote Sensing with GIS. Remote Sensing in Mine Subsistence Monitoring. Remote Sensing in Slope Stability Monitoring. Remote Sensing in Mine Reclamation Planning. Monitoring of Post Mine Land use/cover with Remote Sensing.
• Provides step-by-step guidance on applying the concepts using GPS hardware or a PC • Presents an overview of concepts and self-study projects and exercises in each chapter
Basic Concepts (Step-by-Step in all chapters). Automated Data Collection. Examining GPS Data. Differential Correction. ArcGIS Desktop, ArcData, and GPS. Integrating GPS Data with GIS Data. Beyond the Basics. The Present and the Future. July 2009, 312 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4200-8799-4, £69.99
CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group
December 2009, 448 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-31084-0, £66.99
August 2011, 220 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-87879-1, £49.99
Request your complimentary exam copy today!
www.crctextbooks.com
GIS, GPS, and Remote Sensing Geomatics Engineering A Practical Guide to Project Design
City Planning for Civil Engineers, Environmental Engineers, and Surveyors
Image Analysis, Classification, and Change Detection in Remote Sensing
Clement A. Ogaja
Kurt W. Bauer
With Algorithms for ENVI/IDL, Second Edition
California State University, Fresno, USA
This nuts-and-bolts resource examines key components and aspects of land surveying and geomatics projects. It reviews the experience of past projects and identifies priority areas of attention for planning new projects. Ideal for students, the text guides readers through the project design and request-forproposal process commonly used for soliciting professional geomatics engineering services. The author provides an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility, the impact of engineering solutions in a global and social context, and a host of other contemporary issues such as budgetary and scheduling constraints. • Provides a simple guide on key concepts of project design for land surveyors • Presents examples with various tables and charts, graphically designed to communicate important information in an easy-to-understand format • Offers a thorough exploration of contemporary issues of project design • Contains case examples from real-life past projects • Includes end-of-chapter questions on the key concepts covered
Selected Contents: Overview: Project Design Process. Contemporary Issues: Standards and Specifications. Professional and Ethical Responsibilities. Policy, Social, and Environmental Issues. Planning and Design: Boundary Surveys. Control Surveys. Topographic Surveys. GIS Application. Proposal Development: Estimating Project Costs. Writing Geomatics Proposals. Appendices: Appendix A: Resource Guide for Geomatics Projects. Appendix B: Sample Geodetic Standards–FGCC 1984. Index.
SE Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, USA
“I highly recommend City Planning for Civil Engineers, Environmental Engineers, and Surveyors as an authoritative resource for those new to the land-use arena and to those wanting to improve their knowledge and add value to their land surveying practices. It deserves a place on the bookshelf of any land surveyor whose practice includes urban land development.” —Jeff Salmon, in Professional Surveyor Magazine
An introduction to land use planning, this book covers infrastructure systems planning and development. It stresses basic concepts and the most widely practiced principles involved in urban planning, particularly in small and medium sized communities. Written from the perspective that cities are social and economic as well as physical entities, the book offers a historical context for urban planning.
Selected Contents: Introduction. Definition of Terminology. The Historic Context of Urban Planning in the United States. Compilation of Essential Data: A Brief Overview. Map Requirements For City Planning. Population Data and Forecast. Economics Data and Forecasts. Land Use and Supporting Infrastructure Data. Natural Resource Base Inventories. Institutional Structure for City Planning and the Comprehensive Plan. Objectives, Principles, and Standards. Land Use Planning. Neighborhood Unit Concept. Principles of Good Land Subdivision Design. Street Patterns and Transportation Planning. Other Plan Elements. Plan Implementation – Land Subdivision Control. Plan Implementation – Zoning. The Official Map. Capital Improvement Programming. September 2009, 368 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4398-0892-4, £61.99
Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing
Third Edition
Emilio Chuvieco
Michael Kennedy
Alfredo Huete
Edited by Universidad de Alcala, Spain
• Includes a CD-ROM with GPS data sets for exercises in Trimble SSF and ESRI shapefile formats—plus other valuable learning resources
Updated to cover the latest versions of the ENVI software environment, the new edition of this popular text covers support vector machines and other kernelbased methods. Illustrating many programming examples in the array-oriented language IDL, the text covers basic Fourier, wavelet, principal components and minimum noise fraction transformations; convolution filters, topographic modeling, image-to-image registration and ortho-rectification; image fusion; supervised and unsupervised land cover classification with neural networks; hyperspectral analysis; multivariate change detection.
Selected Contents: Images, Arrays, and Matrices. Image Statistics. Transformations. Filters, Kernels, and Fields. Image Enhancement and Correction. Supervised Classification: Part 1. Supervised Classification: Part 2. Unsupervised Classification. Change Detection. Appendix A: Mathematical Tools. Appendix B: Efficient Neural Network Training Algorithms. Appendix C: ENVI Extensions in IDL. Appendix D: Mathematical Notation. References. December 2009, 471 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4200-8713-0, £82.99
GPS for Land Surveyors Third Edition Van Sickle LLC, Denver, Colorado, USA
The Global Positioning System and ArcGIS
Describing GPS and its applications to GIS, this book reviews the capabilities, features, and procedures common to most receivers and software allowing the information to be applied to a variety of products. Updates to this edition include ArcGis Desktop, ESRI software, and a CD-ROM with GPS data sets for exercises in Trimble SSF and ESRI shapefile formats—plus other valuable learning resources.
Juelich Research Center, Germany
Jan Van Sickle
September 2010, 296 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4398-1743-8, £66.99
University of Kentucky, Dept. of Geography Lexington, Ky. 40506
Morton J. Canty
University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
“The organization of this book lends itself to use as a practitioner’s reference or as a remote sensing course textbook with its progression through the various topics needing consideration from image acquisition to product delivery… it expounds on a number of topics typically not addressed in detail in other publications. … the mathematical step-by-step approach to image correction is very useful. … warrants consideration as a primary or a secondary text for the practitioner or for academia.” — Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, November 2010
Providing an accessible introduction to the subject, this third edition offers a practical guide to the techniques used in real GPS surveying. It explores the latest advances in the field, covering new topics such as block IIF and control segment modernization. The text also features an in-depth discussion of the GNSS.
Selected Contents: The GPS Signal. Biases and Solutions. The Framework. Receivers and Methods. Coordinates. Planning a Survey. Observing. Postprocessing. RTK and DGPS. GPS Modernization. What Have We Done So Far? GPS Codes Again. New Codes. Block IIF. Control Segment Modernization. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). May 2008, 360 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8493-9195-8, £61.99
Remote Sensing of the Mine Environment Sebnem Duzgun and Nuray Demirel
• Covers the capabilities and features common to most receivers
Providing an extensive review of remote sensing principles with emphasis on environmental applications, this book discusses a wide range of topics, from physical principles to data acquisition systems as well as visual and digital interpretation techniques. This book presents new interpretation approaches including hyperspectral analysis, high-spatial resolution data, fusion techniques, and radiative transfer models.
Comprehensive in scope, this volume provides an introduction to monitoring the environmental impacts of mining activities, such as mine subsidence monitoring slope stability monitoring, reclamation planning and implementation, and post closure mine monitoring. Featuring self-contained chapters, it is enhanced with illustrative case studies that demonstrate how to apply different remote sensing data as well as techniques for different mine monitoring purposes.
• Supplies a solutions manual to instructors upon qualifying course adoption
Selected Contents:
Selected Contents
Selected Contents:
Introduction. Physical Principles of Remote Sensing. Sensors and Remote Sensing Satellites. Basis for the Interpretation of Remote Sensing Images. Visual Interpretation. Digital Image Processing (I): Enhancements and Corrections. Digital Image Processing (II): Generation of Thematic Information. Accuracy Assessment. References. Appendices.
Introduction to Mine Environmental Monitoring. Principles of Remote Sensing. Interpretation of Remotely Sensed Imagery. Integration of Remote Sensing with GIS. Remote Sensing in Mine Subsistence Monitoring. Remote Sensing in Slope Stability Monitoring. Remote Sensing in Mine Reclamation Planning. Monitoring of Post Mine Land use/cover with Remote Sensing.
• Provides step-by-step guidance on applying the concepts using GPS hardware or a PC • Presents an overview of concepts and self-study projects and exercises in each chapter
Basic Concepts (Step-by-Step in all chapters). Automated Data Collection. Examining GPS Data. Differential Correction. ArcGIS Desktop, ArcData, and GPS. Integrating GPS Data with GIS Data. Beyond the Basics. The Present and the Future. July 2009, 312 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4200-8799-4, £69.99
CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group
December 2009, 448 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-31084-0, £66.99
August 2011, 220 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-87879-1, £49.99
Request your complimentary exam copy today!
www.crctextbooks.com
Geoscience Geological Engineering Luis Gonzalez de Vallejo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Mercedes Ferrer, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid
6000 Broken Sound Parkway, NW, Suite 300 Boca Raton, FL 33487, USA
www.crctextbooks.com
“… a standard work, of interest for a wide group of users, in a broad range of geologically differing areas, as a support in the application of geology to research, design and construction in civil engineering.“ —Floris Schokking, GeoConsult B.V., Haarlem
January 2011, 700 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-41352-7, £76.99
Introduction to Process Geomorphology Vijay K. Sharma, Kurukshetra University (retired), India An introduction to the dynamics of internal geologic processes of the earth, this book explains the origin of landforms by the processes involved in their evolution. The author expresses process activities in mathematical, empirical, and semi-empirical perspectives to highlight their distinctive identity in specific environmental stress conditions. Each chapter reviews, synthesizes, and provides recent findings and understanding of the complexity of geomorphic processes. April 2010, 435 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4398-0337-0, £80.99
Geology Basics for Engineers Aurele Parriaux, Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland “The pedagogic value of the book is underlined by exercises throughout the chapters. An accompanying DVD contains the solutions to problems and also animations that make the description of geology much more dynamic and alive. … I highly recommend the book …” —Paul G. Marinos, Past President of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG), Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, School of Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Dept., Athens, Greece
August 2009, c. 590 pp., Soft Cover, ISBN: 978-0-415-46165-8, £69.99
eBooks Available Autumn 2012 Same Great Content, Flexible Formats eBooks allow students to: • Rent or purchase. • Share highlights and notes with classmates. • Access by download, online, or on a mobile device.
Single Piles and Pile Groups Under Lateral Loading 2nd Edition Lymon C. Reese, University of Texas, Austin, USA Willem van Impe, Ghent University, Belgium This second edition of Lymon C. Reese and Willem van Impe’s book has been extensively revised to suit the classroom setting. New features include homework problems with solutions presented in the student version of the software as well as new and updated case studies that are consistent with modern methods of the characterization of soil properties. January 2011, 532 pp., Pack, ISBN: 978-0-415-46988-3, £80.99
Design Analysis in Rock Mechanics Second Edition William G. Pariseau, University of Utah, USA “… sufficiently wide and deep in its coverage of rock mechanics concepts applied to mine design to deserve a place on the bookshelf of every mining geotechnical engineer, and in the library at every mine site.“ —IJRMMS 44 (2007), 1172 - 1176
September 2011, 698 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-89339-8, £57.99
Request Your Complimentary Exam Copy Today!
www.crctextbooks.com BQL09 Trifold 1.27.12rd
+44 (0) 1235 400 524 • orders@taylorandfrancis.com
Geoscience Geological Engineering Luis Gonzalez de Vallejo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Mercedes Ferrer, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid
6000 Broken Sound Parkway, NW, Suite 300 Boca Raton, FL 33487, USA
www.crctextbooks.com
“… a standard work, of interest for a wide group of users, in a broad range of geologically differing areas, as a support in the application of geology to research, design and construction in civil engineering.“ —Floris Schokking, GeoConsult B.V., Haarlem
January 2011, 700 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-41352-7, £76.99
Introduction to Process Geomorphology Vijay K. Sharma, Kurukshetra University (retired), India An introduction to the dynamics of internal geologic processes of the earth, this book explains the origin of landforms by the processes involved in their evolution. The author expresses process activities in mathematical, empirical, and semi-empirical perspectives to highlight their distinctive identity in specific environmental stress conditions. Each chapter reviews, synthesizes, and provides recent findings and understanding of the complexity of geomorphic processes. April 2010, 435 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4398-0337-0, £80.99
Geology Basics for Engineers Aurele Parriaux, Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland “The pedagogic value of the book is underlined by exercises throughout the chapters. An accompanying DVD contains the solutions to problems and also animations that make the description of geology much more dynamic and alive. … I highly recommend the book …” —Paul G. Marinos, Past President of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG), Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, School of Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Dept., Athens, Greece
August 2009, c. 590 pp., Soft Cover, ISBN: 978-0-415-46165-8, £69.99
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Single Piles and Pile Groups Under Lateral Loading 2nd Edition Lymon C. Reese, University of Texas, Austin, USA Willem van Impe, Ghent University, Belgium This second edition of Lymon C. Reese and Willem van Impe’s book has been extensively revised to suit the classroom setting. New features include homework problems with solutions presented in the student version of the software as well as new and updated case studies that are consistent with modern methods of the characterization of soil properties. January 2011, 532 pp., Pack, ISBN: 978-0-415-46988-3, £80.99
Design Analysis in Rock Mechanics Second Edition William G. Pariseau, University of Utah, USA “… sufficiently wide and deep in its coverage of rock mechanics concepts applied to mine design to deserve a place on the bookshelf of every mining geotechnical engineer, and in the library at every mine site.“ —IJRMMS 44 (2007), 1172 - 1176
September 2011, 698 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-89339-8, £57.99
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