Overview
- Presents tutorial-style descriptions of methodologies for scientists and students who desperately need such descriptions (which aren’t available anywhere else)
- Provides a theoretical background for students and teachers
- Includes comprehensive and mutually comparable information on existing projects and tools
- Offers international scope, as scientists and students working in the same field but in different countries may be “invisible” to each other
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Specialized Planetary Mapping
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Cartographic Approaches
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Mapping Methods
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About this book
This book approaches geological, geomorphological and topographical mapping from the point in the workflow at which science-ready datasets are available. Though there have been many individual projects on dynamic maps and online GISs, in which coding and data processing are given precedence over cartographic principles, cartography is more than “just” processing and displaying spatial data. However, there are currently no textbooks on this rapidly changing field, and methods tend to be shared informally.
Addressing this gap in the literature, the respective chapters outline many topics pertaining to cartography and mapping such as the role and definition of planetary cartography and (vs?) Geographic Information Science; theoretical background and practical methodologies in geological mapping; science-ready versus public-ready products; a goal/procedure-focused practical manual of the most commonly used software in planetary mapping, which includes generic (ArcGISand its extensions, JMARS) and specific tools (HiView, Cratertools etc.); extracting topographic information from images; thematic mapping: climate; geophysics; surface modeling; change detection; landing site selection; shared maps; dynamic maps on the web; planetary GIS interfaces; crowdsourcing; crater counting techniques; irregular bodies; geological unit symbology; mapping center activities; and web services.
All chapters were prepared by authors who have actually produced geological maps or GISs for NASA / the USGS, DLR, ESA or MIIGAIK. Taken together, they offer an excellent resource for all planetary scientists whose research depends on mapping, and for students of astrogeology.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Planetary Cartography and GIS
Editors: Henrik Hargitai
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62849-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62848-6Published: 23 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62849-3Published: 22 February 2019
Series ISSN: 1863-2246
Series E-ISSN: 1863-2351
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 351
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Planetology