Features- Divided into three parts – Total Station, GIS and Remote Sensing
- Well drawn illustrations, black-and-white photographs and color plates that lend conceptual clarity to the subject
- Coverage of electronic tachometers and their use in measuring angles
- Total Station explained with principles, data acquisition and plotting
- Remote Sensing explained with data acquisition and interpretation
- Covers Indian Remote Sensing Satellites, including the CARTOSAT
About the AuthorsSatheesh Gopi has over 16 years experience as a hydrographer and is currently working as Marine Surveyor in the Hydrographic Survey Wing of the Kerala Port Department. He received his degree in civil engineering from the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram and also holds a masters degree in information technology. He is the author of
Global Positioning System – Principles and Applications. He was commissioned to supervise surveys with commercially available Total Stations in the late eighties and with GPS receivers in the early nineties. He has worked with Total Station and GPS ever since.
R. Sathikumar is presently Professor (Civil) with the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram. He received his post-graduate degree, in Transportation Engineering, from IIT Kanpur in 1989 and his Ph.D from IIT Roorkee in 1996.
N. Madhu is Assistant Professor (Civil) with the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram. He obtained his M.Tech in Traffic and Transportation Engineering from IIT Madras in 1991.
Features- Covers all the techniques, applications and theory required up to degree level
- Incorporates new material on two port networks, reliability, intelligent transmitters, digital signal processing, electronic intrinsically safe systems and communication protocols
- Includes start-of-chapter objectives and end-of-chapter summaries
- Illustrated with over 250 line diagrams and tables
- Includes highlighted equations and over 100 problems to reinforce comprehension.
Features- “Guidelines” appear throughout each chapter, providing concrete applications of theories or principles discussed.
- “Point/Counterpoint” sections in each chapter present two perspectives on a controversial question related to the field. All topics covered are NEW to the Ninth Edition.
- “Teachers' Casebook” presents students with realistic classroom scenarios at the beginning of each chapter and asks “What Would You Do?,” giving students the opportunity to apply all the important topics of the chapter to these scenarios via application questions.
- “Margin Glossary” provides definitions in the margins of the text, allowing easy access to the terms and their relevant examples as the text is read or reviewed in preparing for tests.
- “Family and Community Partnerships” sections offer specific guidelines for involving families—when demand for parental involvement is at an all-time high—in the various aspects of children's learning.
- “Becoming a Professional” concludes each chapter and is geared directly to the needs of beginning teachers, with textual connections to PRAXIS II, advice for preparing for teaching job interviews, and concrete suggestions for developing professional portfolios and teaching resources.
- “Connect and Extend” sections appear in the margins several times throughout each chapter, linking content to teaching, students' thinking, research, and the news relating theory to authentic classroom settings.
- New Chapter 13, “Teaching for Self-Regulation, Creativity, and Tolerance,” recognizes that there is more to schooling than academics and that educational psychology has much to say about important non-academic outcomes.
- “Reaching Every Student” boxes in eve
