Marine and Coastal Geographical Information Systems (Research Monographs in Geographic Information Systems.)
Contributors: Dawn J. Wright (Editor); Darius J. Barlett (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: December 23, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780748408702
Subjects: Oceanography (seas); Oceanography; Earth Sciences - Oceanography; Science; Submarine geology; Science/Mathematics; Remote Sensing; Earth Sciences - Geography; Technology / Remote Sensing; Coasts; Geographic information systems; Marine sciences
First sentence: In the mid-1960s Roger Tomlinson recognised that digital computers could be used quite effectively to map out and analyze the vast quantities of information being collected by the Canada Land Inventory.