Tag: Ranging

A Passion for Cooperation Adventures of a Wide-Ranging Scientist


Free Download Robert Axelrod, "A Passion for Cooperation: Adventures of a Wide-Ranging Scientist "
English | ISBN: 0472056557 | 2023 | 178 pages | EPUB | 514 KB
A Passion for Cooperation is the exciting autobiography of Robert Axelrod, one of the most acclaimed and wide-ranging scientists of the last fifty years. After being recognized by President Kennedy for being a promising young scientist while in high school, Axelrod built a career dedicated to collaborating with business school professors, international relations scholars, political scientists, computer scientists, and even evolutionary biologists and cancer researchers. Fifty years later, he was honored by President Obama with the National Medal of Science for scientific achievement and leadership and his work has been referred to as the gold standard of interdisciplinary research.

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Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning Principles and Processing, Second Edition (2024)


Free Download Jie Shan, Charles K. Toth, "Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning: Principles and Processing, Second Edition"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1498772277, 103247629X | PDF | pages: 655 | 118.1 mb
Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive discussion of topographic LiDAR principles, systems, data acquisition, and data processing techniques. This edition presents an introduction and summary of various LiDAR systems and their principles and addresses the operational principles of the different components and ranging methods of LiDAR systems. It discusses the subsequent geometric processing of LiDAR data, with particular attention to quality, accuracy, and meeting standards and addresses the theories and practices of information extraction from LiDAR data, including terrain surface generation, forest inventory, orthoimage generation, building reconstruction, and road extraction.

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