Willi Freeden – Handbook of Geomathematics (Second edition, 2015)

Автор: Willi Freeden
Название книги: Handbook of Geomathematics (Second edition)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Геология и Геодезия
Страницы: 3146
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

During the last three decades geosciences and geo-engineering were influenced by two essential scenarios: First, the technological progress has changed completely the observational and measurement techniques. Modern high speed computers and satellite based techniques are entering more and more all geodisciplines. Second, there is a growing public concern about the future of our planet, its climate, its environment, and about an expected shortage of natural resources. Obviously, both aspects, viz. efficient strategies of protection against threats of a changing Earth and the exceptional situation of getting terrestrial, airborne as well as spaceborne data of better and better quality explain the strong need of new mathematical structures, tools, and methods. Mathematics concerned with geoscientific problems, i.e., Geomathematics, is becoming increasingly important.

The aim of Handbook of Geomathematics, published in 2010, was twofold: The
first aim was to offer appropriate means of assimilating, assessing, and reducing to
comprehensible form the readily increasing flow of data from geochemical, geodetic,
geological, geophysical, and satellite sources. The second aim was to provide
an objective basis for scientific interpretation, classification, testing of concepts,
modeling, simulation, and solution of problems in the geosciences. The handbook
was the first authoritativemathematical forum of geoscientifically relevant research.
The editors and the publisher are delighted that the handbook was very successful
and well received. In recognition of information changing quickly these days and
researchers demanding the most current information possible, it seems that the stage
is set for the second edition as a central referencework for academics, policymakers,
and practitioners internationally. Thus, the editors and the publisher Springer have
decided it is time to update and substantially expand the first edition.
The handbook fills the gap of a basic reference work on mathematics concerned
with methods and problems of geoscientific significance, i.e., geomathematics. It
consolidates the current knowledge by providing succinct summaries of concepts
and theories, definitions of terms, biographical entries, organizational profiles, a
guide to sources of information, and an overview of the landscapes and contours
of today’s geomathematics. Contributions are written in an easy-to-understand and
informative style for a general readership, typically from areas outside the particular
research field.
The second edition of Handbook of Geomathematics comprises the following
scientific fields:
1. General Issues, Historical Background, and Future Perspectives
2. Observational and Measurement Key Technologies
3. Modeling of the System Earth (Geosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere,
Biosphere, Anthroposphere)
4. Analytic, Algebraic, and Operator Theoretical Methods
5. Statistical and Stochastic Methods
6. Spherical Function Systems and Methods
7. Computational and Numerical Methods
8. Cartographic, Photogrammetric, Information Systems and Methods