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Close Range Photogrammetry and Machine Vision

Edited by K.B. Atkinson, J.G. Fryer ...

Over the past decade, advances in this field have been rapid and we are now well into the era of digital photogrammetry. This book provides an authoritative account of the subject with chapters from acknowledged international experts. The methodology, algorithms, techniques and equipment necessary to achieve real time digital photogrammetric solutions are presented, together with contemporary ... Read more

$33.19 USD

Over the past decade, advances in this field have been rapid and we are now well into the era of digital photogrammetry. This book provides an authoritative account of the subject with chapters from acknowledged international experts. The methodology, algorithms, techniques and equipment necessary to achieve real time digital photogrammetric solutions are presented, together with contemporary
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Pinpoint

How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds

by Greg Milner ...

"One of the most mesmerizing and exhilarating, yet alarming modern technology books…an extraordinary tale." —Gillian Tett, Financial TimesPinpoint tells the fascinating story of a hidden system that touches nearly every aspect of modern life. Tracking the development of GPS from its origins as a bomb guidance system to its present ubiquity, Greg Milner examines the technology’s double-edged effect ... Read more

$12.39 USD

"One of the most mesmerizing and exhilarating, yet alarming modern technology books…an extraordinary tale." —Gillian Tett, Financial TimesPinpoint tells the fascinating story of a hidden system that touches nearly every aspect of modern life. Tracking the development of GPS from its origins as a bomb guidance system to its present ubiquity, Greg Milner examines the technology’s double-edged effect
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Textbook of Surveying

by C Venkatramaiah ...

This comprehensive textbook on surveying covers, in a single volume, all the topics prescribed at the undergraduate level in civil engineering in India. It presents the various methods of surveying and the underlying concepts of surveying, including modern and advanced surveying techniques and instruments such as Total Station. The narrative is enlivened with glimpses of the historical development ... Read more

$22.00 USD

This comprehensive textbook on surveying covers, in a single volume, all the topics prescribed at the undergraduate level in civil engineering in India. It presents the various methods of surveying and the underlying concepts of surveying, including modern and advanced surveying techniques and instruments such as Total Station. The narrative is enlivened with glimpses of the historical development
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Advanced Excel for Surveyors

by Philip Bowcock, Natalie Bayfield ...

Advanced Excel for Surveyors is the companion to the highly successful Excel for Surveyors. This volume is intended to help both students and practitioners use Mircosoft Excel™ to solve some of the more complex problems that the surveyor may come across.It explores how Visual Basic and macros can simplify and speed up repetitive tasks, fulfilling one of the basic aims of computing: “If it is ... Read more

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Advanced Excel for Surveyors is the companion to the highly successful Excel for Surveyors. This volume is intended to help both students and practitioners use Mircosoft Excel™ to solve some of the more complex problems that the surveyor may come across.It explores how Visual Basic and macros can simplify and speed up repetitive tasks, fulfilling one of the basic aims of computing: “If it is
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Public Private Partnerships in International Construction

Learning from case studies

by Albert P. C. Chan, Esther Cheung ...

Over the last ten years public private partnerships have become ever more popular worldwide, expanding the body of experience among construction professionals, government agencies, and industry. In these economically challenging times, PPP has emerged as a crucial framework for providing infrastructure, and also to boost construction industry activity, while shielding the taxpayer from some of the ... Read more

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Over the last ten years public private partnerships have become ever more popular worldwide, expanding the body of experience among construction professionals, government agencies, and industry. In these economically challenging times, PPP has emerged as a crucial framework for providing infrastructure, and also to boost construction industry activity, while shielding the taxpayer from some of the
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Global Navigation Satellite Systems

New Technologies and Applications

by Basudeb Bhatta ...

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and their associated technologies have advanced by leaps and bounds in the nine years since the first edition of this book was published. The concept of survey has changed, especially in the disciplines of geomatics and geoinformatics. This revised and updated second edition provides a thorough understanding of the basic principles and techniques of GNSS, ... Read more

$65.99 USD

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and their associated technologies have advanced by leaps and bounds in the nine years since the first edition of this book was published. The concept of survey has changed, especially in the disciplines of geomatics and geoinformatics. This revised and updated second edition provides a thorough understanding of the basic principles and techniques of GNSS,
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Residential Property Appraisal

Volume 1 - Valuation and Law

by Chris Rispin, Fiona Haggett, Carrie de Silva, Phil Parnham, Larry Russen ...

Residential Property Appraisal, Volumes 1 and 2 are essential handbooks not only for students studying surveying but also for surveyors and others involved in the appraisal of residential property.Volume 1 has been updated and covers the valuation process as it relates to residential properties, particularly when valuation is undertaken for secured lending purposes. It addresses the basic skills ... Read more

$76.99 USD

Residential Property Appraisal, Volumes 1 and 2 are essential handbooks not only for students studying surveying but also for surveyors and others involved in the appraisal of residential property.Volume 1 has been updated and covers the valuation process as it relates to residential properties, particularly when valuation is undertaken for secured lending purposes. It addresses the basic skills
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Estimator's Piping Man-Hour Manual

by John S. Page ...

This reference provides reliable piping estimating data including installation of pneumatic mechanical instrumentation used in monitoring various process systems. This new edition has been expanded and updated to include installation of pneumatic mechanical instrumentation, which is used in monitoring various process systems. ... Read more

$122.39 USD

This reference provides reliable piping estimating data including installation of pneumatic mechanical instrumentation used in monitoring various process systems. This new edition has been expanded and updated to include installation of pneumatic mechanical instrumentation, which is used in monitoring various process systems.
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Mud, Manholes, and Machetes

True Stories from the Life of a Surveyor Engineer

by Ritchey Marbury ...

This book covers the often humorous adventures of Ritchey Marbury during his more than seventy years of surveying and engineering. It tells how his survey crews were motivated when he fell face-first into a muddy swamp; how he peered out of a sanitary sewer manhole to see his future wife staring at him from her front porch; and how he almost fainted when he saw his son lying in a hospital bed, ... Read more

$2.99 USD

This book covers the often humorous adventures of Ritchey Marbury during his more than seventy years of surveying and engineering. It tells how his survey crews were motivated when he fell face-first into a muddy swamp; how he peered out of a sanitary sewer manhole to see his future wife staring at him from her front porch; and how he almost fainted when he saw his son lying in a hospital bed,
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Practical Handbook of Thematic Cartography

Principles, Methods, and Applications

by Nicolas Lambert, Christine Zanin ...

Maps are tools used to understand space, discover territories, communicate information, and explain the results of geographical analysis. This practical handbook is about thematic cartography. With more than 120 colorful amazing illustrations, numerous boxed texts, definitions, and helpful tools, this step-by-step introduction to cartography is both the art of understanding the world and a ... Read more

$66.99 USD

Maps are tools used to understand space, discover territories, communicate information, and explain the results of geographical analysis. This practical handbook is about thematic cartography. With more than 120 colorful amazing illustrations, numerous boxed texts, definitions, and helpful tools, this step-by-step introduction to cartography is both the art of understanding the world and a
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Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation

by Craig Langston ...

Life-cost approach to building evaluation comprehensively addresses in a reader-friendly, accessible way the fundamentals of life-cost studies in the built environment. It includes the time-value of money, discounted cash-flow analysis, differential price-level movement and affordability fluctuations. Contemporary issues such as occupancy costs, sustainability implications and value adding are ... Read more

$79.99 USD

Life-cost approach to building evaluation comprehensively addresses in a reader-friendly, accessible way the fundamentals of life-cost studies in the built environment. It includes the time-value of money, discounted cash-flow analysis, differential price-level movement and affordability fluctuations. Contemporary issues such as occupancy costs, sustainability implications and value adding are
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Spon's African Construction Cost Handbook

by Franklin ...

Series series Spon's International Price Books
This unique publication provides the only detailed, multinational guide to the cost of construction work across Africa.Thirteen chapters cover individual countries (Algeria, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'lvoire, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia) providing:key data on the main economic and construction indicatorsan outline of the national construction ... Read more

$625.00 USD

This unique publication provides the only detailed, multinational guide to the cost of construction work across Africa.Thirteen chapters cover individual countries (Algeria, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'lvoire, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia) providing:key data on the main economic and construction indicatorsan outline of the national construction
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Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2024

Edited by AECOM ...

Series series Spon's Price Books
Compiled by AECOM, the 2024 edition has been updated with the latest pricing information to help you manage your projects over the next 12 months through this challenging period of high inflation and financial uncertainty.It provides a full breakdown of labour, plant and material elements for civil and highway works. Cost guidance is given at a number of levels, varying from the more general ... Read more

$270.00 USD

Compiled by AECOM, the 2024 edition has been updated with the latest pricing information to help you manage your projects over the next 12 months through this challenging period of high inflation and financial uncertainty.It provides a full breakdown of labour, plant and material elements for civil and highway works. Cost guidance is given at a number of levels, varying from the more general
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Engineering Surveying

by Mark Breach, Wilf Schofield ...

Engineering surveying involves determining the position of natural and man-made features on or beneath the Earth’s surface and utilizing these features in the planning, design and construction of works. It is a critical part of any engineering project. Without an accurate understanding of the size, shape and nature of the site the project risks expensive and time-consuming errors or even ... Read more

$97.99 USD

Engineering surveying involves determining the position of natural and man-made features on or beneath the Earth’s surface and utilizing these features in the planning, design and construction of works. It is a critical part of any engineering project. Without an accurate understanding of the size, shape and nature of the site the project risks expensive and time-consuming errors or even
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Construction Economics

A New Approach

by Danny Myers ...

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its new approach specifically examines the problems of securing sustainable construction and this fifth edition broadens the message to address the immediacy of the problems relating to the carbon-based world that we have constructed.Embracing the whole ... Read more

$72.99 USD

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its new approach specifically examines the problems of securing sustainable construction and this fifth edition broadens the message to address the immediacy of the problems relating to the carbon-based world that we have constructed.Embracing the whole
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Building Performance Analysis

by Pieter de Wilde ...

**Explores and brings together the existent body of knowledge on building performance analysisShortlisted in the CIBSE 2020 Building Performance Awards**Building performance is an important yet surprisingly complex concept. This book presents a comprehensive and systematic overview of the subject. It provides a working definition of building performance, and an in-depth discussion of the role ... Read more

$110.00 USD

**Explores and brings together the existent body of knowledge on building performance analysisShortlisted in the CIBSE 2020 Building Performance Awards**Building performance is an important yet surprisingly complex concept. This book presents a comprehensive and systematic overview of the subject. It provides a working definition of building performance, and an in-depth discussion of the role
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Hydrography and Navigation on the Congo River

A Century of Visual History

by Paul Van Pul ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
In a time without GPS and echosounder, European engineers and black labourers worked for decades to get a better understanding of the nautical intricacies of the Congo River. This is the first comprehensive story, in text and custom-made maps, of the, in flow, second largest river in the world. We follow the earliest explorers mapping the river, the expeditions to find an alternative access to the ... Read more

$143.99 USD

In a time without GPS and echosounder, European engineers and black labourers worked for decades to get a better understanding of the nautical intricacies of the Congo River. This is the first comprehensive story, in text and custom-made maps, of the, in flow, second largest river in the world. We follow the earliest explorers mapping the river, the expeditions to find an alternative access to the
... Read more
Proceedings of UASG 2021: Wings 4 Sustainability

Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics

Edited by Kamal Jain, Vishal Mishra, Biswajeet Pradhan ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of geographic information systems and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (UASG), held in Roorkee, India on April 2-4, 2021. It covers highly diverse topics, including photogrammetry ... Read more

$224.99 USD

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of geographic information systems and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (UASG), held in Roorkee, India on April 2-4, 2021. It covers highly diverse topics, including photogrammetry
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SCRUDE

by Mark Newham ...

Oil, eh? One of the most troublesome substances known to man.Burn it and the world goes into meltdown. Disrupt it and the world goes into meltdown. You just can't win with oil... unless, of course, you're in the business.Supply disruptions hand the oil majors a golden chance to cash in on the subsequent spiralling price of their product... as the world was to discover to its cost the day Russia ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Oil, eh? One of the most troublesome substances known to man.Burn it and the world goes into meltdown. Disrupt it and the world goes into meltdown. You just can't win with oil... unless, of course, you're in the business.Supply disruptions hand the oil majors a golden chance to cash in on the subsequent spiralling price of their product... as the world was to discover to its cost the day Russia
... Read more
ICE Core Concepts

Geotechnical Engineering

by Sanjay Kumar Shukla ...

ICE Core Concepts: Geotechnical Engineering is an engaging, practical introduction to the analysis, design, construction, maintenance and renovation of geotechnical structures. Each chapter presents concise coverage of a core subject area in geotechnical engineering. Topics covered include site investigation, ground improvement techniques, shallow foundations, deep foundations, retaining ... Read more

$45.99 USD

ICE Core Concepts: Geotechnical Engineering is an engaging, practical introduction to the analysis, design, construction, maintenance and renovation of geotechnical structures. Each chapter presents concise coverage of a core subject area in geotechnical engineering. Topics covered include site investigation, ground improvement techniques, shallow foundations, deep foundations, retaining
... Read more
Spon's Construction Resource Handbook

by Bryan Spain ...

Series series Spon's Price Books
Spon's Construction Resource Handbook is the first book to present critical information about materials, labour and plant constants required for the estimating process under one cover. It covers all areas of the construction industry and will provide all those involved in the preparation of tenders, cost estimates and first-stage estimates with the ... Read more

$375.00 USD

Spon's Construction Resource Handbook is the first book to present critical information about materials, labour and plant constants required for the estimating process under one cover. It covers all areas of the construction industry and will provide all those involved in the preparation of tenders, cost estimates and first-stage estimates with the
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The Role of the Third Surveyor under the Party Wall Act 1996

by Victor Vegoda ...

This book is intended to clear any misconceptions about the responsibilities of the third surveyor and outlines the steps taken in choosing a professional for this role, as well as discussing who may carry it out. ... Read more

$67.99 USD

This book is intended to clear any misconceptions about the responsibilities of the third surveyor and outlines the steps taken in choosing a professional for this role, as well as discussing who may carry it out.
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Darstellende Geometrie des Geländes und verwandte Anwendungen der Methode der kotierten Projektionen

Bereicherte Ausgabe.

by Rudolf Rothe, Marcel Lange ...

In "Darstellende Geometrie des Geländes und verwandte Anwendungen der Methode der kotierten Projektionen" von Rudolf Rothe wird ein tiefgreifender Einblick in die technischen und künstlerischen Aspekte der darstellenden Geometrie gegeben. Das Buch beleuchtet die Methodik und die theoretischen Grundlagen der kotierten Projektionen, um die Geometrie des Geländes anschaulich und präzise abzubilden. ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In "Darstellende Geometrie des Geländes und verwandte Anwendungen der Methode der kotierten Projektionen" von Rudolf Rothe wird ein tiefgreifender Einblick in die technischen und künstlerischen Aspekte der darstellenden Geometrie gegeben. Das Buch beleuchtet die Methodik und die theoretischen Grundlagen der kotierten Projektionen, um die Geometrie des Geländes anschaulich und präzise abzubilden.
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Ubiquitous Point Cloud

Theory, Model, and Applications

by Bisheng Yang, Zhen Dong, Fuxun Liang, Xiaoxin Mi ...

Series series Imaging Science
Point clouds from LiDAR and photogrammetry are vital and vast sources of geospatial information besides remote sensing imagery. This book provides the latest theory and methodology for point cloud processing with AI to better serve earth observation, 3D vision, autonomous driving, smart city, and geospatial information applications. It covers various aspects of 3D geospatial information, including ... Read more

$170.00 USD

Point clouds from LiDAR and photogrammetry are vital and vast sources of geospatial information besides remote sensing imagery. This book provides the latest theory and methodology for point cloud processing with AI to better serve earth observation, 3D vision, autonomous driving, smart city, and geospatial information applications. It covers various aspects of 3D geospatial information, including
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