Applied Ecology and Natural Resource Management

The science of ecology and the practice of resource management are critical to our understanding of the Earth's ecosystems and our efforts to conserve them. This book attempts to bridge the gap between ecology and natural resource management and in partic...

 Scattering, Natural Surfaces and Fractals

An elegant and clear treatment of a rigorous topic with informative prose and realistic illustrations of scattering Provides readers with a solid background in interpretation, classification, and thematization of microwave images The only book availab...

 Perceiving Geometry Geometrical Illusions Explained by Natural Scene Statistics

During the last few centuries, natural philosophers, and more recently vision scientists, have recognized that a fundamental problem in biological vision is that the sources underlying visual stimuli are unknowable in any direct sense, because of the inhe...

 Earthquakes in Human History The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions

On November 1, 1755--All Saints' Day--a massive earthquake struck Europe's Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon. Churches collapsed upon thousands of worshippers celebrating the holy day. Earthquakes in Human History  tells the story of...

 Machine Vision for the Inspection of Natural Products

Machine vision technology has revolutionised the process of automated inspection in manufacturing. The specialist techniques required for inspection of natural products, such as food, leather, textiles and stone is still a challenging area of research. To...

 Model Generation for Natural Langage Interpretation and Analysis

Mathematical theorem proving has undergone an impressive development during the last two decades, resulting in a variety of powerful systems for applications in mathematical deduction and knowledge processing. Natural language processing has become a topi...

  Real World Bryce 4 The Art of The Digital Landscape

Create a world. MetaTool's Bryce 3D puts the power to create breathtakingly realistic 3-dimensional worlds at users' fingertips. Mountains, plains, oceans, and abstract landscapes spring to life with incredibly detailed textures, animation, and natural ef...