Catálogo de libros: Ciencias de la tierra/geociencias

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  • Monitoring and Modelling of Geological Disasters Based on InSAR Observations
    Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) has demonstrated its potential in monitoring geological disasters, e.g., in relation to subsidence, landslides, earthquakes, and volcanoes. Such monitoring results provide significant information for further physical modeling, driving mechanism interpretation, developments in early warning technology, and the management and formu...
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    86,58 €

  • Remote Sensing for Climate Change
    Xander Wang
    This Special Issue captures the latest research advances regarding remote sensing technologies and their applications in climate change research. A total of 16 original research articles authored by 105 researchers are included in this Special Issue, presenting recent advances in remote sensing technologies and the application of remote sensing technologies to climate change mo...
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    85,55 €

  • TELEGEOPROCESSING
    Sheng Zhang / Xiran Zhou / XIRAN ZHOU & SHENG ZHANG YONG XUE / Yong Xue
    Telegeoprocessing is the integration of remote sensing, Geographic Information System (GIS), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Big Data and Telecommunication.This unique compendium brings together most of the key issues involved in research in novel systems in telegeoprocessing. It elucidates a comprehensive introduction to the problems encountered in telegeoprocessing...
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    154,44 €

  • Towards COP27
    Due to its low adaptability to climate change, the MENA region has become a 'hot spot'. Water scarcity, extreme heat, drought, and crop failure will worsen as the region becomes more urbanized and industrialized. Both water and food scarcity are made worse by civil wars, terrorism, and political and social unrest. It is unclear how climate change will affect the MENA water-food...
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    115,69 €

  • Advanced Technologies for Gold Prospection and Mining
    Fouad A. S. Soliman / Karima A. Mahmoud
    Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from Latin: aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductilemetalin a pure form. Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements and is...
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    110,36 €

  • Remote Sensing Applications in Ocean Observation
    Since the launch of Seasat, TIROS-N, and Nimbus-7 satellites equipped with ocean observation sensors in 1978, a new era of ocean remote sensing has opened. Today, remotely sensed data have been widely used in oceanographic studies. This reprint collects various advanced ocean remote sensing technologies and their applications, including the use of artificial intelligence techni...
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    87,57 €

  • a Blue Arctic
    Department of the Navy / White House
    Welcome to the world of the Blue Arctic! Through this book, you will be taken on a journey of discovery into one of Earth’s most remote and fascinating regions.The US Navy has been increasing its presence in Arctic waters over the past few years, with an eye towards promoting peace and protecting our interests throughout the region. The Navy is engaging in interoperability exer...
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    23,66 €

  • Feature Papers of Drones
    This reprint compiles the articles, communications, and review articles from top researchers describing novel or new cutting-edge designs, developments, and/or applications of unmanned vehicles. This reprint encompasses the key topics related to drone design, communications as well as autonomous Flight and Navigation. Special attention is paid to the drones’ applications to env...
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    86,83 €

  • Feature Papers of Drones
    This reprint compiles the articles, communications, and review articles from top researchers describing novel or new cutting-edge designs, developments, and/or applications of unmanned vehicles. This reprint encompasses the key topics related to drone design, communications as well as autonomous Flight and Navigation. Special attention is paid to the drones’ applications to env...
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    86,10 €

  • Advances in Flow Modeling for Water Resources and Hydrological Engineering
    Water resource systems planning and management issues are often very complex. The pressures on water resources are increasing with the expanding scale of global development involving ecological and hydrological consequences in river basins and groundwater aquifers, and water-quality deterioration. All this leads to the increasing need for investigating the effects of different ...
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    86,88 €

  • Jurassic history in Gebel Maghara
    Ahmed Awad Abdelhady
    The Jurassic period is regarded as a fascinating time slice due to its well-known terrestrial systems and its diverse marine ecosystems. Within the invertebrates, several new groups appeared and a massive evolutionary radiation of the existing ones took place. The Jurassic succession of Gebel Maghara offers the best and most comprehensive succession of Jurassic strata in Egypt....
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    110,29 €

  • Soil Improving Cropping Systems for Sustainable and Profitable Farming in Europe
    A major challenge for the future is combining both the profitability and sustainability of agriculture. The European H2020 project SoilCare aims to identify, test, and evaluate soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) which contribute to the implementation of agricultural solutions across Europe (See: https://soilcare-project.eu/en/ for the project website). The project includes ...
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    85,70 €

  • Resilience and Sustainability in Architecture and Urban Planning
    The production and development of the built environment relates strongly to the fields of architecture and urban planning. The built environment experiences severe impacts from disasters that have become more frequent and intense around the world due to climate change and other human actions, requiring research on architectural design and urban planning that contributes to resi...
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    66,89 €

  • URBAN REMOTE SENSING
    ZHENFENG SHAO
    This compendium is based on more than ten years of urban remote sensing teaching experience, scientific research achievements, and the latest developments of remote sensing technology.The volume is divided into ten chapters, which describes the principles of urban remote sensing and multi-source remote sensing big data acquisition, urban remote sensing image processing methods,...
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    107,76 €

  • Hydrology
    Wilfried Brutsaert
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    81,98 €

  • Recent Advances in Geological Oceanography
    This reprint contains twenty-one scientific papers related to the determination of the nature, timing, and magnitude of natural hydroclimate variability and related sedimentary-diagenetic processes during geological eras past and present. Such an approach will be essential for addressing the challenges posed by climate change in coastal and deep marine sedimentary archives, for...
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    86,98 €

  • An Introduction to Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Geologic Media
    Shujun Ye / Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh / Yanhui Dong
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    85,97 €

  • Hydrogeochemistry & Groundwater Quality Around Inactive Mines
    V. Sunitha / Y. Sudharsan Reddy
    Water is an indispensable natural resource on earth. Water is very important to nature and can limit the resources of humans and other living things. Groundwater occupies a major part in water supply for drinking, irrigation and industrial purposes in the world. The essentiality of water is more conspicuous due to its periodic scarcity. Land and water constitute the most import...
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    97,49 €

  • ALLEGORY
    Michael Solomon
    Finalist--Best Cover Design--Next Generation Indie Book AwardsNominated for a Pulitzer PrizeAllegory is the story of how one man has created a narrative that has gaslighted the world into believing, unless drastic measures are taken, the world will be destroyed within ten years by greedy industrialists. However, his solution will put planet Earth on a path to suicide. His narr...
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    25,12 €

  • The first people in Africa, Siberia and other parts of the world
    Elena Ivanova / Richard Peter Wade / Tatiana Dmitrieva
    This book tells us that the first people appeared in Africa, Yakutia, Altai, Siberia and not only. A review of modern concepts of the origin of life and man on Earth is presented. It is shown that new anthropological and paleontological discoveries have significantly changed the prevailing ideas about anthropogenesis and showed the fallacy of our ideas about the human race. It ...
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    61,88 €

  • Basic Numerical Methods in Meteorology and Oceanography
    The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to numerical modelling of the ocean and the atmosphere. It originates from courses given at Stockholm University and is intended to serve as a textbook for students in meteorology and oceanography with a background in mathematics and physics.Focus is on numerical schemes for the most commonly used equations in oceanography ...
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    19,18 €

  • COASTS AND ESTUARIES
    K Murali / S A Sannasira / S A SANNASIRAJ & K MURALI V SUNDAR / V Sundar
    Coastlines, like many things around us, are constantly evolving. Keeping pace with the changes and their development is necessary to ensure their stability and to maintain eco-equilibrium for nearshore hydrodynamics and morphodynamics. Supported with field measurements for model validation, several numerical and analytical tools are available to us to understand the physical pr...
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    145,17 €

  • Throwing Stones in a Glass House
    Liam FitzGerald
    This is the story of Liam FitzGerald, who as a young man in the late-1960’s, more or less stumbled into the exciting and often hazardous life of an avalanche worker. His attraction to this line of work led him to Little Cottonwood Canyon, in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, the birthplace of Avalanche Control and Forecasting in North America.There he landed a job as a Ski Patroller at...
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    37,02 €

  • The Problem With Infinity
    Steven A. Mattson
    The Problem with Infinity is a study of the inconsistencies in both astrophysics and theoretical physics concerning the universe and whether it is finite or infinite. The observations and conclusions of scientists, based on their assumptions and calculations, are analyzed and discussed.The last three chapters explore the possibilities of extraterrestrial life and whether it may...
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    10,84 €

  • Earth and Energy, Power and Pollution
    Patrick Simmons
    Human population growth and wars led humanity to develop novel methods to harvest food and advance manufacturing techniques. This drove increased use of earth’s energy forms. The period from 1770 until now is known as the Advent of Mass Production. It was also the Dawn of Pollution, during when the demand and control of crude oil energy and human cupidity overcame discipline an...
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    23,77 €

  • WAKING UP TO CLIMATE CHANGE
    GEORGE ROPES
    For 15 years, author George Ropes has followed the unfolding story of climate change for the timely website ClimateYou.org. Along the way, he has covered myriad individual research studies, innovations, catastrophes, and signs of progress, from the resurgence of sustainable communities to lessons learned from the Australian wildfires. This enlightening book presents a selection...
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    120,28 €

  • WAKING UP TO CLIMATE CHANGE
    GEORGE ROPES
    For 15 years, author George Ropes has followed the unfolding story of climate change for the timely website ClimateYou.org. Along the way, he has covered myriad individual research studies, innovations, catastrophes, and signs of progress, from the resurgence of sustainable communities to lessons learned from the Australian wildfires. This enlightening book presents a selection...
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    47,85 €

  • Big Fires Start Small
    Thomas Pandola
    'We are not helpless in solving the wildfire crisis in California.'These words of author Thomas Pandola form the passion and the premise of this, his first solo book, Big Fires Start Small. Following his service of twenty-five years with the LAFD, Pandola witnessed the annual loss of lives and property and experienced the side effects from the smoke caused by California’s wildf...
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    15,71 €

  • The Climate of the Paraíba Valley, North Coast and Serra da Mantiqueira - SP
    Carlos Fernando Lemos / Gilberto Fernando Fisch
    The objective of this work is to show the characterization and the variability of the climate of the Paraíba Valley between 1946 and 1995, which is considered one of the most important regions of the country in political, economical and industrial terms. The data that will be presented aims to form a climatological database to facilitate regional planning to support socio-polit...
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    80,50 €

  • The World’s Gone Flat
    Jamie Bolton
    This book is designed as a fun novelty and should not be taken seriously.It’s aimed at those people that believe the Earth is flat, it asks difficult questions.There is another book called 'The World’s Gone Round' which is another fun, novelty book that can be given to those people that believe the Earth is a globe, the book asks the questions that Globers will find difficult t...
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    9,65 €