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Database of more than 1400 scientific journals. Recent years of about half of the journals are available in full text.
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Index to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publications. Full text available for most ACM journals, magazines & transactions.
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Essentials of geographic information systems by Open Textbook Library
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Publication Date: 2011
Freely available introductory GIS textbook from the Open Textbook Library.
Practical Handbook of Remote Sensing by Samantha Lavender; Andrew Lavender
Publication Date: 2015
A Beginner's Guide to the World of Satellite DataOver a thousand active satellites are in orbit around the Earth with applications including navigation, the transmission of data and satellite remote sensing; a space-based technology providing data accessible to everyone.
GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management by Martin van Maarseveen (Editor); Javier Martinez (Editor); Johannes Flacke (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2018
GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management: A Global Perspective, explores and illustrates the capacity that geo-information and GIS have to inform practitioners and other participants in the processes of the planning and management of urban regions.