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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Map-making"”.
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Mapjack : a mobile based Wiki for collaborative map making
… to create cartographic data is OpenStreetMap. It has been ten years since OpenStreetMap came into existence and despite generating a large corpus of user contributed cartographic data, significant gaps still exist between countries that have poor access to internet and computers and …
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New Approaches to Map-Making for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations
… are an additional foreground contaminant in CMB maps; proper identification and removal of these sources is a crucial step in the analysis pipeline. From the standpoint of Extragalactic Astrophysics, point source data from the WMAP instrument can provide important information about source …
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Visual map-making and guided reinforcement learning for mobile robot navigation : a neurocomputational approach
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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USAGE OF VERY HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL RGB SATELLITE IMAGERY IN GEO-INFORMATION EXTRACTION FOR FINE-SCALE MAP-MAKING
Maps are the fundamental elements of any navigation and localization system. With the fast expansion of urban areas and the increasing complexity of modern cities, traditional mapping techniques cannot meet the need for frequent map updates with enriched map details. In this thesis, we investigate …
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Reading maps as plans : changing perceptions of Delhi
The common perception of maps as 'scientific' images and objective records of topographic features has undermined the role of ideology in their evolving form and use. This thesis contends that the structuring of maps and map content is not only a function of available technique and existing …
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Assessing Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Resources to Develop a Sustainable Management Plan for the Lokaro Reserve in Southeast, Madagascar
… about local plant uses through a village map-making exercise in both villages and semi-formal interviews with 25 villagers, the ombiasa, two material healers and five mid-wives. I found 70% of all plant species recorded in the reserve are used locally for medicinal, spiritual, edible, …
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Assessing Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Resources to Develop a Sustainable Management Plan for the Lokaro Reserve in Southeast, Madagascar
… about local plant uses through a village map-making exercise in both villages and semi-formal interviews with 25 villagers, the ombiasa, two material healers and five mid-wives. I found 70% of all plant species recorded in the reserve are used locally for medicinal, spiritual, edible, …
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Map librarianship : with special reference to the bibliographic description of pre-1900 printed maps of the Cape of Good Hope (south-western section)
Having given a short resume of the background of maps and map making, the handling of maps in libraries was investigated. The examination of the development of bibliographic description of maps, resulted in, inter alia, the identification of their peculiar characteristics Special attention was …
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Retromapping: conceptual outline of a novel method for visualizing and exploring urban spatial evolution in the digital environment
Maps have long been used for visualizing and studying urban spatial information. For the early phases of urban development in most cities, however, there are usually few maps due to the high cost of map making. These temporarily widely spaced early city maps document the evolution of cities as a …
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Charting the ephemeral : sound installation as embodied, synsonic mapping
… cartography, current conceptions of the sound map are challenged. Though the origins of the sound map date back to the 1970s soundscape movement, modern sound maps are online repositories of location recordings that are geo-referenced and navigated with the use of a digitized, aerial map. A …
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Evangelicalism and capitalism: a reparative account and diagnosis of pathogeneses in the relationship
… First, the thesis proposes and deploys its own 'map-making’ method as a kind of heuristic concept map to trace correspondence between church acts and beliefs. This 'map-making' ensures that the thesis provides evaluation and resourcing for de-ployment to current and related Evangelical contexts. …
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Mapping spaces: towards a quantitative methodology for exploring maps and mapping in early modern Ireland, c.1530-1610
This thesis assesses the evolution of historic maps of Ireland using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and quantitative approaches. Each of nineteen early modern maps dating to the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries (c.1530 – 1610), a formative period of Irish cartographic history, was …
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Negotiating the fertile body : women's life history experiences of using contraception
… Using a qualitative life history method and map-making, this research used Listening Guide analysis to understand 15 British women’s contraceptive life histories. Three substantive chapters situate these narratives within the political and social landscape of neoliberal Britain over the last …
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Mapping spaces : towards a quantitative methodology for exploring maps and mapping in early modern Ireland, c.1530-1610
This thesis assesses the evolution of historic maps of Ireland using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and quantitative approaches. Each of nineteen early modern maps dating to the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries (c.1530 – 1610), a formative period of Irish cartographic history, was …
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Subjugated Territory: The New Afrikan Independence Movement and the Space of Black Power
… Nationalists also used discursive place-making practices to create an imagined geography of black liberation that was articulated in organizational literature, public speeches, media appearances, and alternative map-making. I ground my research theoretically in constructionist concepts of …
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A mathematical model for political districting with compactness consideration and an application to Kentucky Senate districting
… control. Traditionally this problem is solved by map-making skills based on subjective criteria (typically partisan interests). In addition to the two basic criteria, namely contiguity and population equality, other spatial and socioeconomic criteria have been considered when generating district …
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Cartographers: A practice based investigation on memory, conflict and the aerial image.
… two-dimensional outcome of marking borders on a map, or printing an image on a flat surface, and the time that affects the events that shape the very heart of that crosslink. The rigidity of borders, and sometimes their false ideas of flexibility can be seen on how recently Europe has proved …
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Challenging Intersectional Racism: A Women of Colour Feminist Account of Chinese Teachers in the Private ELT Industry
… context, and also used an innovative emotion-map-making method, which allowed participants to visually represent their emotions they associate with particular school spaces. Through a feminist grounded theory analysis, this research amplified these women teachers’ voices, constructing theories …
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Drawing ‘New Maps’ Critical Cartography and Ethnographical Enquiry Through Drawing Practice
How can new maps be created that deconstruct territorial borders and reevaluate drawing as a methodology? This practice-based research brings together ethnography and critical cartography through drawing practice to produce new maps that relate the formation of cultural and social identity. It …