Tokyo past and present

Mr. Miyao in his books painstakingly traced the actual locations of he old scenes and listen them with photographs of what they actually look like today and where they are situated.

Chinas’s sorrow :Journeys around the yellow river

PROLOGUE : THE VALLEYS OF the Yellow River, said the French explorer and writer Pierre Teilhard de Chardın in 1923, struck him as 'austere and desolate regions in which the mind, as well as the body, is exposed defenceless to all the great winds of the earth. He went on: 'These immense expanses, grey and flat, out of all proportion to our plains of western Europe, and these completely bare and…

Asia, east by south :A cultural geography

This volume is concerned with cultural geog- raphy in its widest interpretation. Most of the materials with which cultural geographers must deal are tangible and can be viewed in terms of regional distribution and analysis. These tangibles form the primary contexts of discussion throughout the book. Beyond them, however, there are important but less tangible characteristics of peoples and place…

Hong Kong streets & places

streets and place in Hong kong

Geographic information system, spatial modelling and policy evaluation

In recent years we have witnessed an increasing intres in Geographic Information System (GIS). Despite the wave of popularity for these systems it is noteworthy that they have been around for almost thirty years.

Geographic information systems

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are now essential to the work of an increasingly diverse range of organizations concerned with population characteristics, from local government and health authorities to major retailers and marketing agencies.rnrnThe period since the mid-1980s has seen massive growth in the field of GIS computer-based systems for the handling of geographically refer- enced …

Geographic information from space

Over the past few decades, the science of remote sensing has evolved dramatically. In its early years, remote sensing was oriented towards military applications and its civil use was largely limited to the production of colourful mosaics; they served to brighten up offices but were of little practical use. As techniques for interpretation of remotely sensed data improved, scientists and planner…

Mountain environments & geographic information systems

Mountains cover about one-fifth of the Earth's surface and ars characterized by great environmental and cultural diversity They are important for at least half the world's populations a places to live; for natural resources and tourism, and as centres of biodiversity.rnrnGeographic information systems (GIS) are increasingly used in mountain areas to record baseline information about the state o…

Index herbariorum, Part I: The herbaria of the world

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Remote sensing and GIS introgration: Theories. methods. and applications

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