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Richards, Daniel L. "Open source UAV platform development for aerial photography." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1587919.
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Aerial photography is an important layer in Geographic Information Systems (GISs), and generally provides the base layer from which many other digital map layers are derived. Capturing these photos from a traditional full-sized airplane is a complex and expensive process. The recent development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and associated technology are providing an alternative to the traditional aerial mapping process. UAVs produced by popular commercial vendors are effective at capturing photos, but are highly expensive to acquire, and equally expensive to maintain.
This research project demonstrates the development and successful implementation of a relatively inexpensive ($2000) unmanned aerial vehicle capable of acquiring high-resolution digital aerial photography. The UAV was developed using open source technology and commercially available components. The methods outlined encompass the platform selection, component inventory, design, construction, configuration, implementation, and testing of the UAV, as well as an analysis of the photography produced by the process. This approach can be used by others to implement similar UAV projects.
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Smith, Scott R. "Aerial perspective and geography : an historical look at the use of aircraft to gain a sense of place /." Abstract Full Text (HTML) Full Text (PDF), 2009. http://eprints.ccsu.edu/archive/00000575/02/2016FT.htm.
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Thesis (M.S.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2009.Thesis advisor: Cynthis Pope. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geography." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-81). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Wolf, Eric B. "Low-cost large scale aerial photography and the Upland South Folk Cemetery a thesis presented to the Department of Geology and Geography in candidacy for the degree of Master of Science /." Diss., Maryville, Mo. : Northwest Missouri State University, 2006. http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/theses/WolfEricB/index.htm.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Northwest Missouri State University, 2006.The full text of the thesis is included in the pdf file. Title from title screen of full text.pdf file (viewed on January 25, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.
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Fyfield, Paul Hagen. "Transportation and Land Use Patterns: Monitoring Urban Change Using Aerial Photography, Portland, Oregon 1925-1945." PDXScholar, 2003. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2242.
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American urban neighborhoods are a patchwork; the spatial arrangement of types is a reflection of the dominant transportation technology at the time of their development. The earliest suburban areas were made accessible by fixed route systems such as the electric streetcar, followed by the widespread adoption of the automobile; each transportation epoch resulted in characteristic patterns of land use. This study uses aerial photographic coverage of Portland, Oregon from the years 1925, 1936, and 1945, a time of decline for the once popular trolley lines and dramatic increase in automobile usage, to monitor change within the residential areas of Portland's east side over a twenty year period.
Classic economic models of the time acknowledged transportation as a force shaping the city; modem ideas in urban planning such as Traditional Neighborhood Design and Transit Oriented Development look to pre-automobile urban form as a means to reduce automobile use and its negative implications. This study uses variables of housing density and street connectivity derived from the aerial photography; the measured values of these variables are then considered for their spatial and temporal distribution using statistical comparisons. The results are compared to ideas within the urban models and current thinking about urban morphology. While generally consistent with the expected patterns, deviations and differences between the two variables are considered for their implications.
Models offer a simplified version of the growth of American cities, considering only a few of the many aspects of a dynamic environment. By isolating on these variables of density and connectivity, a greater understanding of their role in arriving at the modem residential urban environment may be reached, and this understanding can add to the discourse in current planning debates.
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Dicks, Steven E. "Satellite-derived surface temperatures and their relationships to land cover, land use, soils and physiography of North-Central Florida." Gainesville, FL, 1986. http://www.archive.org/details/satellitederived00dick.
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Hui, Lin Ning. "THE USE OF LARGE SCALE COLOR AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY TO MONITOR CATTLE GRAZING IN MESQUITE GRASSLANDS, SOUTHERN ARIZONA." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/275514.
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Pryor, Logan S. "Land-cover mapping in an agriculture zone using simulated Sentinel-2 data." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Geography, c2012, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3367.
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Remote sensing technologies are used to assist in the mapping and monitoring of land cover in space and time. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) upcoming Sentinel-2 MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) to be launched in 2013 has improved spatial and spectral properties compared to the current large-swath medium-resolution satellite sensors. Prior to the deployment of future sensors it is important to simulate and test the sensor data to evaluate the sensor's potential performance in producing the existing data products and develop new algorithms. This study simulated Sentinel-2 MSI data from airborne hyperspectral data over an agriculture area in northern Alberta, Canada. The standard Sentinel-2 MSI land-cover product was evaluated by comparing it to one created from the standard Landsat 5 TM and SPOT 5 HRV data products. Furthermore the standard Sentinel-2 MSI water column content band configuration and algorithm was evaluated for atmospheric correction purposes.xi, 90 leaves : col. ill. ; 29 cm
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Aqdus, Syed Ali. "Airborne multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing techniques in archaeology a comparative study /." Thesis, Thesis restricted. Connect to e-thesis to view abstract, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/812/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2009.Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Physical Sciences, Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences and the Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, 2009. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Wunderly, Martin A. "Defining Zostera marina (Eelgrass) Restoration Sites in Virginia's Coastal Bays with Aerial Images and Bathymetric Mapping." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1261160088.
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Gregorio, Michael Anthony. "Geomorphic Effects of the Hocking River Channelization at Athens, Ohio, on the Downstream Planform." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1213210389.
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Dunfee, Scott E. "Evolution of ORV Trails in the Little Sahara Recreation Area, Utah, 1952 - 1997." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1225292205.
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Thompson, James. "Identifying Subsurface Tile Drainage Systems Utilizing Remote Sensing Techniques." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1290141705.
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Brimicombe, A. J. "Uncertainty and fitness-for-use in handling aerial photographic interpretive data in geographical information systems." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14394820.
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Ndlwana, Monica. "A critical analysis of problems encountered by senior secondary school pupils in the reading and interpretation of 1:50,000 topographical maps and aerial photographs with special reference to black pupils in Transkei." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003351.
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Mapwork is an established part of the geography curriculum, and yet it poses particular problems for pupils and teachers. Maps participate in a complex system of graphic communication: the conceptual abstraction involved in the reading and interpretation of maps requires on the part of pupils a high degree of cognitive and perceptual development; teachers, too, often experience considerable difficulty in imparting the skills necessary for graphic literacy (graphicacy). The peculiar difficulties associated with map reading and the poor performance of pupils in this area have regrettably encouraged an attitude which dismisses mapwork as irrelevant or dispensable in geographical education. Yet graphicacy is essential not only in the learning of geography but in the overall cognitive development of the child, and therefore cannot be excluded from the curriculum. This study attempts to identify some of the specific difficulties experienced by pupils in their attempts to read and interpret maps, and to trace the origin of these difficulties. It argues that the complexity and sophistication of the skills necessary to interpret topographical maps and aerial photographs, for instance, should not be underestimated. Teachers need to be made aware of how pupils acquire map reading skills and of the problems they encounter during this process, so that teaching programmes commensurate with pupils' level of cognitive development can be formulated. It is also important that mapwork be taught in as practical a manner as possible. The findings and recommendations of this study have implications for geography teachers, textbook writers and educational authorities, especially those involved in curriculum and syllabus design.
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Börjeson, Lowe. "A History under Siege : Intensive Agriculture in the Mbulu Highlands, Tanzania, 19th Century to the Present." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-215.
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This doctoral thesis examines the history of the Iraqw’ar Da/aw area in the Mbulu Highlands of northern Tanzania. Since the late nineteenth century this area has been known for its intensive cultivation, and referred to as an “island” within a matrix of less intensive land use. The conventional explanation for its characteristics has been high population densities resulting from the prevention of expansion by hostility from surrounding pastoral groups, leading to a siegelike situation. Drawing on an intensive programme of interviews, detailed field mapping and studies of aerial photographs, early travellers’ accounts and landscape photographs, this study challenges that explanation. The study concludes that the process of agricultural intensification has largely been its own driving force, based on self-reinforcing processes of change, and not a consequence of land scarcity.
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Ryan, James. "Photography, geography and Empire, 1840-1914." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262032.
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This thesis considers the relationships between photography and geography in the wider context of British imperialism, c. 1840-1914. It distisses reproductions of sixty photographs. Chapter one situates this research within current theoretical debates concerning the histories of photography, geography and British imperialism. It also discusses the sources used, and provides a detailed outline of the thesis. Chapter two considers the photographic representation of landscape on geographical expeditions, particularly scientific expeditions in central Africa and the travels of commercial photographers in northern India. Chapter three focuses on the role of photography within military campaigns. A detailed discussion of the Abyssinian campaign (1867-8) reveals how photography and geography were associated in imperial campaigning. Chapter four traces the language and imagery of 'photographic-hunting'. A discussion of practices of hunting, exploration and conservation, particularly in Africa, shows how photography was a means of representing the imperial domination of the natural world. Chapter five explores the photographic survey and classification of 'racial types'. It situates the associated uses of photography in anthropology and geography within the context of Victorian scientific ideas on race, both within the empire and in Britain itself. Chapter six discusses the relationship between the representation of racial 'types' abroad and the social 'others' of Victorian London. It presents a case study of the work of the professional photographer John Thomson, placing his work in China and London in the context of his ethnological and geographical interests. Chapter seven explores Halford Mackinder's work with the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee, 1902-1911. It shows how photography was used to promote an imperial vision of geography, but raises also questions as to its ultimate impact. Chapter eight provides a conclusion which argues that photography was central to the construction of imaginative geographies of empire in the period 1840-1914 and suggests that, through photography, such geographies continue to be reproduced today
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Pelcat, Yann S. "Soil landscape characterization of crop stubble covered fields using Ikonos high resolution panchromatic images." Thesis, Winnipeg : University of Manitoba, 2006. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/MWU/TC-MWU-224.pdf.
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Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 2006.A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Department of Soil Science. Includes bibliographical references.
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Arruda, José Nildo Frutuoso de. "Potencialidades e limitações dos produtos de sensoriamento remoto para o processo de ensino-aprendizagem de geografia no Ensino Fundamental II." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2013. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/5819.
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This work has objective main the analyze the potentiality and limitations of products remote sensing to the teaching-learning process of Geography on fundamental teaching II. By of application questionnaires, we seek: Know the conceptions of students and teachers of Geography about remote sensing and its products; Identifying how students and teachers see the products of remote sensing (aerial photographs and satellite imagery) in process in learning the contents of the discipline of Geography; Diagnosing the role that remote sensing products can play in the teaching of cartography in the discipline of Geography from the looks of students and teachers and finally, seeked to verify how students and teachers perceive the products of remote sensing in the study of socio environmental problems in the neighborhood where the school is located. Regarding methodological procedures, we conducted a lifting of authors who address the issue of new technologies and the teaching-learning of Geography. With regard to the spatial area, this survey was conducted in eight public schools municipal of the Polo 1 of the teaching of the city of João Pessoa-PB. Form Part of this pole the following neighborhoods: Bancários, Jardim Cidade Universitária e Mangabeira. They are located in the southern part of the county aforesaid. For the delimitation of the research subjects, we define the teachers of Geography and also the students seventh-grade the teaching fundamental II. According to the results of qualitative research analyzed in the light of the authors consulted, we noted that the products of remote sensing, supported by other tools can help to expand the possibilities of the process teaching and learning of Geography. From another part, we also realize that forth the appropriation and expansion of new technologies by society, if makes necessary more increasingly think the respect of strategies didactic-pedagogical be to implemented ambit in the teaching of Geography. This aspect requires training of teachers interested in changing their practices, dedication, remunerations and professional development.
Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar as potencialidades e limitações dos produtos de sensoriamento remoto para processo de ensino-aprendizagem de Geografia no ensino fundamental II. Por meio da aplicação de questionário, procuramos: Conhecer as concepções dos alunos e professores de Geografia a respeito do sensoriamento remoto e seus produtos; Identificar como os alunos e professores veem os produtos do sensoriamento remoto (fotografias aéreas e imagens de satélites) no processo de aprendizagem dos conteúdos da disciplina de Geografia; Diagnosticar o papel que os produtos de sensoriamento remoto podem desempenhar no ensino da cartografia na disciplina de Geografia a partir dos olhares de alunos e professores e, por fim, buscamos verificar como os alunos e professores percebem os produtos de sensoriamento remoto no estudo dos problemas socioambientais do bairro onde se localiza a escola. Quanto aos procedimentos metodológicos, realizamos um levantamento bibliográfico de autores que abordam a questão das novas tecnologias e do ensino-aprendizagem de Geografia. No que se refere ao recorte espacial, a presente pesquisa foi realizada em oito escolas públicas municipais do polo 01 de ensino da cidade de João Pessoa-PB. Fazem parte desse polo os seguintes bairros: Bancários, Jardim Cidade Universitária e Mangabeira. Os mesmos estão localizados na zona Sul do município supracitado. Para a delimitação dos sujeitos da pesquisa, definimos que seriam os professores de Geografia e também os alunos do sétimo ano do ensino fundamental II. De acordo com os resultados da pesquisa qualiquantitativa analisado à luz dos autores consultados, evidenciamos que os produtos do sensoriamento remoto, apoiados por outras ferramentas podem contribuir para ampliar as possibilidades do processo de ensino e aprendizagem de Geografia. De outra parte, percebemos também que diante da apropriação e expansão de novas tecnologias pela sociedade, se faz necessário pensarmos cada vez mais a respeito de estratégias didático-pedagógicas para serem implementadas no âmbito do ensino de Geografia. Tal aspecto requer capacitações dos professores, interesse em mudar suas práticas, dedicação, remunerações e aperfeiçoamento profissional.
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Cardullo, Paolo. "Walking on the rim : towards a geography of resentment." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2012. http://research.gold.ac.uk/7996/.
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My research seeks to understand the complexity of East Greenwich residents' affective reactions at the moment when this landscape was undergoing a dramatic and rapid change. I walked its riverside to the Dome while this was turned from a mostly dismissed and derelict industrial land to a residential area ready to host parts of the Olympic Games. My starting point is that a process of gentrification with symbolic and material displacement of working-class people and their social practices has been occurring. Throughout my fieldwork, I constantly seek to understand the emotional reactions to this pervasive urban change from local residents, workers, and occasional passers-by who I met during the last five years. I have done this with the aid of my always obsolete digital camera and my walking boots, and applying photo elicitation technique whenever it was possible. The unique combination of photographs, walks, and interviews helped me to unpack, from the lower ground perspective of local working-class residents, their affective reactions to this peculiar change. Such an emplaced and class-based struggle opens to what I call the 'geography of resentment'. My hypothesis is that this resentment is a form of reaction against the symbolic violence that gentrification brings. The vehicle through which resentment is expressed is a form of remembering very close to nostalgia, which I decouple from both 'imperial melancholia' and 'hierarchical belonging'. Rather, I contend that this is a form of affective class struggle fought at the level of the symbolic. A debate remains open about the extent to which such controversial form of affection maintains distance from political instrumentalisation and mainstream discourses of communitarian cohesion, while at the same time reflecting the paradoxes of urban change.
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Hogue, Jonathon D. "Mapping a Forest: Utilizing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to Track Phenology." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou152353290087685.
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Bedell, Emily Jane. "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based Structure from Motion Biomass Inventory Estimates." Thesis, Portland State University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10244001.
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Riparian vegetation restoration efforts demand cost effective, accurate, and replicable impact assessments. In this thesis a method is presented using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) equipped with a GoPro digital camera to collect photogrammetric data of a 2.02-acre riparian restoration. A three-dimensional point cloud was created from the photos using Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques. The point cloud was analyzed and compared to traditional, ground-based monitoring techniques. Ground truth data collected using the status-quo approach was collected on 6.3% of the study site and averaged across the entire site to report stem heights in stems/acre in three height classes, 0-3 feet, 3-7 feet, and greater than 7 feet. The project site was divided into four analysis sections, one for derivation of parameters used in the UAV data analysis, and the remaining three sections reserved for method validation. The most conservative of several methods tested comparing the ground truth data to the UAV generated data produced an overall error of 21.6% and indicated an r2 value of 0.98. A Bland Altman analysis indicated a 99% probability that the UAV stems/plot result will be within 159 stems/plot of the ground truth data. The ground truth data is reported with an 80% confidence interval of +/- 844 stems/plot, thus the UAV was able to estimate stems well within this confidence interval. Further research is required to validate this method longitudinally at this same site and across varying ecologies. These results suggest that UAV derived environmental impact assessments at riparian restoration sites may offer competitive performance and value.
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Silva, Elvio Gilberto da [UNESP]. "Medicões de áreas por fotografias aéreas, em escala nominal, comparadas com a área obtida em fotos com escalas corrigidas por meio de um SIG." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/101896.
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interpretation is a basic resource and it constitutes in a technique which enables infinite refining. Agricultural development and ground use requires a careful initial planning in order not only to protect them against superficial changing provoked by natural phenomena but also to gradually develop its productive capacity. For the efficiency of ground management, it is necessary to access correct and detailed information which can be available through aerial images of remote sensing. The use of vertical aerial photography through Remote Sensing has become more common in ground collection, management and exploration, mainly because it substitutes, with lots f advantage, for cartographic bases, besides offering detailed characteristics, eliminating access difficulties in inaccessible areas, as well as facilitating a tridimensional view once it increases map efficiency and accuracy by combining field and laboratory work with photography interpretation. This work, using panchromatic aerial photography in nominal scale 1:25000 (1962), 1:45000 (1977) , and approximate nominal scale of 1:30.000, proceeding from aerial photogrameter developed in 2005, aimed at showing through the Geographic Information System (GIS) the possibility of developing a more complete and accurate analysis of the area values, obtained directly from photos without scale correction, and after comparing it with area values obtained from aerial photography with correct scale referred in IGC (Brazilian Cartography and Geography Institute) guidelines, resulting in an error coefficient which shows area differences through two proposed study. Considering the aerial photographies in three different years: 192, 1977 and 2005, it is possible to affirm that the 2005’s images presented lower values of area difference... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Silva, Corinne. "Dreamlands and ecotones : how can a photographic language be constructed to explore the politics of landscape on the political equator?" Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2014. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/6530/.
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This thesis is structured around a central overriding question: to what extent can the practice of landscape photography be used to make visible the politics of landscape in borderland territories? Introduced by architect Teddy Cruz, the ‘political equator’ suggests an alternative politics of space through which to critically consider socio-economic and geopolitical processes associated with globalisation under neoliberal capitalism. This equator is based on a revised geography of the post-9/11 world, whereby a line drawn across a world map intersects at three contested desert territories: 1) the Mexico USA frontier; 2) southern Spain and northern Morocco; and 3) Palestine/Israel. This concept and its implications for human mobility, porous frontiers and material readings of landscape are explored through my photographic practice. In this work I challenge the idea of ‘hard borders’ between sovereign nation-states and make new political and symbolic associations between the territories along the political equator. Landscape can be seen as a cultural construct imbued with social uses and a more abstract set of desires. Photography as both a material and imaginative medium is able to simultaneously narrate and re-shape landscape. Through my three projects, Imported Landscapes (2010), Badlands (2011) and Gardening the Suburbs (2013) I examine and translate borderland territories. I produce photographs that suggest how these landscapes embody the contradictions of globalisation and carry the traces of past empires and geographies. I analyse the creation of a built environment and the construction of a post-natural landscape to suggest that our understanding of landscape – in ‘real-life’ and as it is aesthetically configured in images – is something materially arranged and a product of the imagination. My practice facilitates an imaginative engagement with potential future political sustainability or modification of these landscapes. Visuality plays a pivotal role in the production of contemporary geo-politics. By exploring three of my art projects in relation to historical and contemporary visual representations of desert borderlands, political and symbolic readings of the desert emerge as inherently connected. This thesis creates an innovative connection between early photographic practices in landscape and their later critical and conceptual versions. The thesis considers the ways in which my work translates, critiques and revises these conventions. I approach landscape phenomenologically, understanding it not as a static entity but as a process. This process is composed of and shaped by human and animal life, material object and place. Through an analysis of my own embodied engagement with landscape and my material and imaginative experience of landscape photographs, this thesis opens new ways of narrating the thresholds of the political equator.
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Potter, Thomas Noel 1959. "The use of multispectral aerial video to determine land cover for hydrological simulations in small urban watersheds." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291381.
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Airborne multispectral video was evaluated as a tool for obtaining urban land cover information for hydrological simulations. Land cover data was obtained for a small urban watershed in Tucson, Arizona using four methods: multispectral aerial video (2 meter and 4 meter pixel resolution), National High Altitude Photography (NHAP), multispectral satellite imagery from Systeme Pour l'Observation de la Terre (SPOT), and by conventional survey. A semi-automated land cover classification produced four classes: vegetation, buildings, pavement, and bare soil. The land cover data from each classification was used as input to a runoff simulation model. Runoff values generate by each simulation were compared to observed runoff. A chi-square goodness-of-fit test indicated that SPOT produced landcover data most similar to the conventional classification. In the curve number model, the SPOT data produced simulated runoff values most similar to observed runoff.
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Silva, Elvio Gilberto da 1970. "Medicões de áreas por fotografias aéreas, em escala nominal, comparadas com a área obtida em fotos com escalas corrigidas por meio de um SIG /." Botucatu : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/101896.
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Resumo: O desenvolvimento da agricultura e o uso da terra de maneira não somente a protegê-la contra alterações superficiais provocadas pela ação constante dos fenômenos naturais, mas também a desenvolver aos poucos sua capacidade produtiva, requer um cuidadoso planejamento inicial. Para que o mesmo seja efetivo e eficiente, é necessário que se tenha acesso a informações corretas e detalhadas, as quais podem estar disponíveis em imagens aéreas de sensoriamento remoto. O uso das fotografias aéreas verticais dentre os produtos do Sensoriamento Remoto se tornou cada vez mais frequente nos projetos de levantamentos, planejamentos e explorações do solo, principalmente porque substitui, com vantagens, outras bases cartográficas, além da riqueza de detalhes que oferece, eliminando-se assim as dificuldades de acesso em áreas inacessíveis, bem como facilitando a visão tridimensional, por aumentar o rendimento e a precisão do mapeamento, por meio da combinação dos trabalhos de campo e laboratório, com o estudo de interpretação fotográfica. Este trabalho utilizou-se de fotografias aéreas pancromáticas nas escalas nominais 1:25000 (1962), 1:45000 (1977) e coloridas na escala nominal aproximada de 1:30.000, proveniente do levantamento aerofotogramétrico efetuado no ano de 2005, tendo como objetivo mostrar através da utilização de um Sistema de Informação Geográfica (SIG) a possibilidade de realizar uma análise mais completa e segura de valores de área, obtidos diretamente na foto sem correções de escala, e posteriormente compará-los com os valores de área obtidos de fotografias aéreas com escalas corrigidas, tendo como referência a carta do Instituto Geográfico e Cartográfico do Estado de São Paulo, resultando num coeficiente de erro que mostrará as diferenças das áreas através... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)Abstract : interpretation is a basic resource and it constitutes in a technique which enables infinite refining. Agricultural development and ground use requires a careful initial planning in order not only to protect them against superficial changing provoked by natural phenomena but also to gradually develop its productive capacity. For the efficiency of ground management, it is necessary to access correct and detailed information which can be available through aerial images of remote sensing. The use of vertical aerial photography through Remote Sensing has become more common in ground collection, management and exploration, mainly because it substitutes, with lots f advantage, for cartographic bases, besides offering detailed characteristics, eliminating access difficulties in inaccessible areas, as well as facilitating a tridimensional view once it increases map efficiency and accuracy by combining field and laboratory work with photography interpretation. This work, using panchromatic aerial photography in nominal scale 1:25000 (1962), 1:45000 (1977) , and approximate nominal scale of 1:30.000, proceeding from aerial photogrameter developed in 2005, aimed at showing through the Geographic Information System (GIS) the possibility of developing a more complete and accurate analysis of the area values, obtained directly from photos without scale correction, and after comparing it with area values obtained from aerial photography with correct scale referred in IGC (Brazilian Cartography and Geography Institute) guidelines, resulting in an error coefficient which shows area differences through two proposed study. Considering the aerial photographies in three different years: 192, 1977 and 2005, it is possible to affirm that the 2005's images presented lower values of area difference... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Conboy, Matthew L. "Mapping the Cultural Landscape: A Rephotographic Survey of W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1427825071.
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Wainwright, Daniel. "Calving front dynamics : External forces that lead to specific sized calving events." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-237686.
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Currently there is no extended study that explicitly focuses on themagnitude, frequency and timing of glacial calving resulting from externalforces. Past studies have identified the size and timing of calving events butthe links between them and the external factors that cause them are stillmissing. Here I present a method to identify the size, time and frequency ofcalving events on the Rink Glacier in Greenland. Using time lapse imagesspaced 30 minutes apart of the calving front, coupled with weather and tidedata, I plan on identifying the main driving force for calving. Results showthat atmospheric pressure and temperature have no positive correlation withcalving magnitude or size. Tidal influences and sea surface temperatureappear to have the strongest influence on the frequency of calving. As seasurface temperatures rapidly decrease though the study period, calvingfrequency also reduces. Strong calving correlations for the entire studyperiod were difficult to identify for tidal influences, as images could only betaken during the sunlit periods of the day. As this study was conductedduring autumn when atmospheric temperatures remained below 0°C, theavailability of melt water for crevasse creation and basal lubrication was notpresent. Therefore it is suggested that future studies on glacial stabilityshould use external forces to measure ice loss over the entire calving season.
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Tien, Ming-Chang. "Visual representations of an imagined return from a Taiwanese exile : an installation of photographic diptychs with artists' books." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2007. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/5c028a5d-b469-4622-9cc2-5cddb51ae978.
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This thesis constitutes five sets of photographic work of self-portraits in diptych form within an installation, with two Artists’ Books and a written component. It explores and visualises my autobiographical condition as an exiled artist from Taiwan, seeking for an imagined return.
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Ersson, Lisbet, and Emma Olsson. "Drones to the Rescue : A literary study of Unmanned Aerial Systems within healthcare." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-425866.
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This thesis addresses the subject of drone deliveries within healthcare to examine whether unmanned aerial vehicles can contribute with increased accessibility to medical supply. An overview of the advancements made in the field since its introduction in health care, is first presented in the report. Through a literary review on the subject, dimensions have been identified as significant for determining the possibly increased accessibility to medical equipment that the unmanned aerial system provides, and thus the utility of the system. This thesis further evaluates the system out of an accessibility perspective, which aims to meet theoretical criteria established by previous researchers in the accessibility field, and thereby adopt a holistic approach to the subject. It is concluded that the dimensions are dependent on characteristics of the geographical location and should be considered when discussing drones in medicine. However, knowledge and evaluations are lacking from regions that have implemented such a system, which contributes to uncertainties for how drone deliveries work in practice.
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Choung, Yun Jae. "Mapping levees for river basin management using LiDAR data and multispectral aerial orthoimages." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1393260770.
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Gambera, José Leonardo Homem de Mello. "Geografia e fotografia: articulando a imagem pela palavra." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-27022014-111341/.
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Em busca de uma abordagem interdisciplinar para o ensino de Geografia, articulada à Fotografia e Língua Portuguesa, este trabalho considera a importância de pesquisas teóricopráticas no ambiente escolar, é fruto da aplicação de uma sondagem diagnóstica com professores da Educação Básica sobre sua concepção e prática quanto ao uso dos recursos audiovisuais, em um primeiro momento; e da aplicação de uma sequência didática por gênero discursivo textual em duas classes de Ensino Fundamental II, na segunda fase do campo empírico. Como pressupostos principais, consideramos a Geografia como ciência que apresenta às crianças e adolescentes conceitos científicos que as permitem entender o espaço geográfico em que vivem e as múltiplas relações que se dão nele; a Fotografia como técnica e linguagem imagética precursora de amplos avanços nos meios de comunicação de massa, inventariante visual da história do mundo e da história de nosso olhar sobre o mundo, além de ter contribuído desde seu surgimento para as metamorfoses da percepção que ainda vivemos; e, a Língua Portuguesa, assim como as demais linguagens verbais orais escritas, bases da estruturação do pensamento e do desenvolvimento de conceitos espontâneos e científicos, intrínsecos à formação da autonomia intelectual e discursiva humana. Detectou-se neste estudo a dificuldade dos professores em conceber e utilizar os recursos audiovisuais, e dentre eles a Fotografia, como uma linguagem imagética que tem uma gênese histórica, oriunda de múltiplos avanços da ciência, passível de ser instrumento para enunciados de sujeitos discursivos e de significação e argumentação a partir de sua relação com a linguagem verbal escrita, portadora e geradora de conceitos. Inclusive os professores estão em descompasso com a realidade de ampla disseminação de tecnologias e linguagens imagéticas, uma vez que elas já fazem parte de seu meio sociocultural e do cotidiano das crianças e adolescentes da gerações atuais, porém os professores têm uma lacuna na formação e não estão capacitados para utilizá-las de forma complexa e associada aos conceitos científicos das disciplinas escolares para propiciar melhor desenvolvimento das funções intelectuais de seus alunos. Com as atividades de leitura de Fotografias dos contextos geográficos Caatinga e Amazônia associada à expressão pela linguagem verbal escrita, obtivemos o resultado de que os alunos das duas classes de 6ª série trabalhadas, têm acesso massificado e banalizado à Fotografia, e conceitos espontâneos sobre a mesma, o que não garante sua conceitualização profunda, percepção clara e precisa de dados visuais ou a inferência e correlação de dados geográficos a partir de fotografias. A fluência na linguagem verbal escrita e a capacidade de linguagem de argumentação se mostrou determinante para o entendimento do conteúdo da linguagem imagética, uma vez que sem a palavra e o conceito formados na mente, a criança tende a se perder na polissemia da imagem fotográfica e não articula hierarquizações, generalizações e sistematizações típicas do pensamento científico e fica limitada aos conceitos espontâneos e à imprecisão sensorial da visão. Nas considerações finais esboçamos uma proposta de Mapa Técnico-Analítico e Mapa Conceitual de fotografias para próximas pesquisas aplicadas ao ensino-aprendizagem de Geografia e outras disciplinas escolares.In the search of an interdisciplinary approach for Geography teaching, articulated to Photography and the Portuguese Language, this work considers the importance of theoreticalpractical research inside school environments, and it is the result of a diagnostic survey with teachers of Elementary Education on their concepts and practice with audiovisual resources, at first; and the application of a textual discoursive genres didactic sequence in two Elementary School classes, the second phase of our practice. Our main assumptions are: Geography as a science that presents to children and adolescents scientific concepts that allow them to understand the geographical space they live in and the multiple relations ocurring in it; Photography as a precursory technique and imagetical language responsible to large advances in mass media communications, a visual gatherer of the history of the world and of the history of our vision about the world, besides contributing since its emergence to the methamorphosis of perception we are still living; and Portuguese Language, just as the other verbal languages, as the basic structures of thought and the development of spontaneous and scientific concepts, intrinsical to the formation of intellectual and discoursive human autonomy. We detected in this study the difficulty of the teachers to conceive and utilize the audiovisual resources, and among them Photography, as an imagetical language that has a historical origin, derived from multiple advances in science, wich can be a tool for utterances of discoursive subjects and of significance and argumentation from its relation with verbal language, bearer and generator of concepts. Teachers are out of step with the reality of broad propagation of imagetical technology and languages, even though it\'s part of their sociocultural environment and from nowadays children\'s and adolescents\' quotidian, although teacher have a gap in their formation and are not qualified to use them in a complex way and associated to the scientific concepts of the school disciplines to provide a better development of the intellectual functions of their students. With the \'reading\' activities over photographs of the geographical contexts of Caatinga and Amazônia associated to the verbal language expression, we obtained the result that the students of the two classes of the 6th Grade we dealt, have massified access to Photography and even spontaneous concepts on it, but that doesn\'t guarantee their profound conceptualization, clear and precise perception of visual data or the inference or correlation of geographical data from photographs. The fluence at the written verbal language and the language capacity of argumentation revealed itself determinant for the understanding of the imagetical language, since that without the formation of word and the concept forged in its mind, the children tends to get lost at the polysemy of the photographic image and don\'t articulate hierarquizations, generalizations and sistematizations typical of the scientific thought and stays limited to the spontaneous concepts and to the sensorial imprecision of the eye vision. At last we outline a proposal of Technical- Analytical Map and Conceptual Map of photographs for further research applied to teaching and learning Geography and other school disciplines.
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Reynolds, Elaine P. "An Automated Method of Identifying the Location of Agricultural Field Drainage Tiles in Northwest Ohio." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1404730697.
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Anderson, Jennifer Leigh. "Lives, Livelihoods, and Landscapes: A Study of Land Use and Social Change in Northeastern Nepal." PDXScholar, 2006. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2238.
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This thesis explores the forces of change in lives and landscapes that have altered the Lamosangu-to-Everest route in northeastern Nepal and shows how a transect in photographs and conversations across the east-central Himalaya allows us insight and a greater understanding into the processes and consequences of this change.
Three forces of change over the last twenty-five years dominated discussions with local informants: the rise of the "People's War"-Nepal's Maoist Insurgency beginning in 1996; the Democratic Revolution of 1990; and dependence on tourism for livelihood after the establishment of Sagarmatha National Park in 1976. Understanding the cultural-historical context for these forces is necessary to understand the concerns of today's residents living along the Lamosangu-to-Mount Everest Base Camp transect.
The visual and ethnographic evidence discussed in this thesis takes a larger role than strict analysis of conspicuous large-scale land use change and I hope the comparative 200 I images will be used as benchmarks for future research as well as for further exploration into the ways people and place have been represented.
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Huezo, Alexander. "Contested Natures, Insecurities and Territorialities: The Aerial Eradication of Coca in Colombia." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3397.
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Until very recently, Colombia was the only country in the world that still permitted the eradication of illicit crops –primarily coca and to a lesser extent, opium poppies— through aerial fumigation. It was a controversial practice for a number of reasons, chiefly the damage caused to plants, animals, and people living in or near fumigated areas. A favored tactic in the U.S.-supported War on Drugs, aerial eradication actually contributed to the spread of illicit crops to increasingly remote areas of Colombia, such as the collectively titled lands of both indigenous and black communities. Concerns about the practice of aerial eradication, however, appeared completely disconnected from the positive framing of the policy and guidelines governing its implementation.
Employing mixed methods, both ethnographic and cartographic, this dissertation examines how these contradictory discourses —aerial eradication explained by officials involved in its operation versus described locally by people living in or near fumigated areas— materialized in 2015, the last year the aerial eradication program was in operation. This study engages critical social science theory to deconstruct dominant conceptualizations of territoriality, geopolitics and environmental conservation, while at the same time proposing alternative understandings of those concepts grounded in local experiences.
This research finds that aerial eradication authorities overstated the accuracy of aerial eradication operations by: 1) downplaying the incidence of pilots spraying legal crops, 2) invalidating local reports on the effects of aerial eradication, and 3) requiring technical evidence far beyond the means of poor rural Colombian farmers. Furthermore, in the specific context of the collectively titled black communities of the Pacific region, aerial eradication authorities did not respect the right to previous consultation per Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention 169.
This dissertation concludes that that aerial eradication —justified by notions of security and environmental conservation that had little to do with black communities of the Pacific region— operated as a means of displacement. This displacement was literal in the sense that aerial eradication made life difficult for people to live in affected communities and figurative because local knowledge was pushed aside in favor of the external interpretations of the effects of this counternarcotics policy.
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Geurts, James, and james@jamesgeurts com. "BLUE-PRINT: Human/Hydrokinetic Drawing Projects." RMIT University. Art, 2010. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20100326.114926.
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Blue-Print: Human/Hydrokinetic Drawing Projects, is based on an expanded field of drawing practice, centering on a series of spatial and time-based projects at various bodies of water around the world. Blue-Print drawing projects set out to describe a language that articulates a human/hydrokinetic relationship. This expanded drawing practice emerges through diverse forms of installation, video, land-art, kinetic sculpture, light works, sensor-drawing, photography, living-monochromes, sound, durational events and research. This expanded drawing practice is based on an inquiry into the relationships between land/place and thought/movement. It addresses the processes through which landscape, and its forms, are internalised in conceptual space, and the ways in which conceptual frameworks are projected outwards onto the landscape. The work is informed by, and contributes to, the paradigms of eco-poetics and psychogeography. Both of these paradigms engage with the relationships between the physical world and the human experience of space and time. Combining the two through my practice creates a view of the environment and the human as two interdependent circulatory systems. Bodies of water/weather cycles/conceptual systems/the human as a water-body, these are subjects in my work as much as the sense of circulation comes through methodologically and aesthetically in the actual making and form of my expanded drawings. This approach to art practice uses process in a particular way, that is as a primary means of making an artwork, although it could be said that such an approach is also an anti-method in as much as the 'method' is variable - it is continually invented given the situation/circumstances. What is consistent is a dynamic of proliferation; the work spreads out in different directions and in unpredictable ways. Here process is not for 'outcome' but is the work itself. My overall practice has taken drawing as the base from which to work. My works are combinational and connective. They are based on a type of research that is deliberate, intense and composite, and which activates the spaces of transformation that exist in the movement between landscape and thought, the circulation between environment and human. This investigation uses human engagement with moving bodies of water to generate drawings in a variety of ways, according to the specifics of each hydrokinetic system. This interest in human/hydrokinetic relationships stems from my experiences as a surfer and surfing is one of the means with which I create drawing works within this investigation. I am interested in the unique and dynamic complexity of hydrokinetics in each of the chosen locations and how this complexity of movement influences the drawing/ recording process. I am interested in generating real-time drawing works from the particular intersection of: place; time; human/hydrokinetic activity; ecological forces at work and the specific ways in which these variables all affect the resultant form of abstraction. Further to this I am interested in exploring the capacity of abstraction to access, and refer to, psychological space more readily than naturalistic renderings of the landscape.
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Freisleben, Alcimar Paulo. "Fotografias que revelam o espaço urbano nos livros didáticos de Geografia." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/186016.
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Esta tese busca refletir sobre os significados das fotografias dos livros didáticos de Geografia (LDG’s) e do importante papel que este instrumento tão utilizado tem no processo educacional. Analisamos os aspectos visuais das fotografias do espaço urbano brasileiro, em 39 LDG’s de meados do anos 1930 até 2017 para entendermos como são mostradas as suas fotografias, como elas revelam as transformações deste espaço urbano e de que maneira elas auxiliam no ensino de Geografia. Em 2015, 10 professores (autores, pareceristas e pesquisadores do LDG) responderam um questionário, que nos auxiliou a entender o sentido da escolha por determinadas fotografias nos LDG’s e seu potencial didático no ensino de Geografia. E em 2018; por meio de atividades de análise de fotografias; buscamos compreender como elas poderiam estimular o aluno à reflexão sobre as dinâmicas que moldam o espaço urbano brasileiro. As atividades foram feitas com 55 estudantes da rede pública de ensino do estado do Paraná. A metodologia utilizada nesta tese, baseou-se em revisão bibliográfica, atividades de análise de fotografias e questionários. As fotografias do LDG são um importante recurso para o professor na construção dos conceitos geográficos, possibilitando aos alunos serem atores da transformação social na escola e no espaço geográfico de suas cidades. Ao adotar a linguagem fotográfica o professor de Geografia estará contribuindo para a construção de aprendizagens mais significativas e estas aliadas aos conceitos geográficos trará um maior sentido a sua prática docente. Portanto é imprescindível que o professor de Geografia aproxime o aluno de abordagens didáticas que utilizem fotografias, para que a curiosidade e a reflexão possam se manifestar e gradativamente se transformarem em conhecimento geográfico.This thesis seeks to reflect on the meanings of the photos of the Geography didactic books (GDB's) and the important role that this instrument has so much used in the educational process. We analyzed the visual aspects of the photographs of the brazilian urban space in 39 GDB's from the mid 1930s through 2017 to understand how their photographs are shown, how they reveal the transformations of this urban space and how they assist in the teaching of Geography. In 2015, 10 teachers (authors, referees and researchers of the GDB) answered a questionnaire, which helped us to understand the sense of choice for certain photographs in GDB's and their didactic potential in Geography teaching. And in 2018; by means of photo analysis activities; we sought to understand how they could stimulate the student to reflect on the dynamics that shape brazilian urban space. The activities were carried out with 55 students of the public network of the state of Paraná. The methodology used in this thesis was based on bibliographic review, photo analysis activities and questionnaires. GDB photographs are an important resource for the teacher in the construction of geographic concepts, enabling students to be actors of social transformation in school and in the geographic space of their cities. By adopting the photographic language the Geography teacher will be contributing to the construction of more meaningful learning and these allied to the geographic concepts will bring a greater sense to his teaching practice. Therefore it is imperative that the Geography teacher brings the student closer to didactic approaches that use photographs, so that curiosity and reflection can manifest themselves and gradually become geographic knowledge.
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Johansen, Richard A. "An Automated Approach to Agricultural Tile Drain Detection and Extraction Utilizing High Resolution Aerial Imagery and Object-Based Image Analysis." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1429280225.
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Liu, Yang. "Remote Sensing of Forest Structural Changes due to Shale Gas Extraction in Muskingum Watershed." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1535703702856946.
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DiBari, Michael Jr. "Advancing the Civil Rights Movement: Race and Geography of Life Magazine's Visual Representation, 1954-1965." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1304690025.
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Freisleben, Alcimar Paulo. "A fotografia como recurso didático na educação ambiental." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Parana, 2013. http://tede.unioeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/142.
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The photographic image is above all an attempt to unify and overcome the fragmentation and compartmentalization of knowledge and focuses the environmental education. This work presents a discussion about some didactics possibilities in the use of photography as a methodological resource of teaching, aimed at raising awareness of environmental issues and training critical student. We work with twenty-six students eighteen authors students and eight students not authors of the photographs during the Geography classes of high school, at the public college Dr. Eduardo Virmond Suplicy, in Francisco Beltrão city, Brazil. The research was structured through the capture and subsequent analysis of the city landscape photographs. For we understand better how the use of imaging and photography are being used in classrooms, eight active teachers and one notactive teacher participated of the research. Among the teachers, eight are licensed in Geography and one of them is licensed in Arts. They teach courses in several areas, at elementary and high school, and universities, in public and private institutions of the Paraná state, Brazil. Thirty-five individuals took part, being twenty-six students and nine teachers. We seek to evaluate the potential didactic from the photography in the teaching and Environmental Education. Therefore we constructed a digital image collection that is available in DVD annexed. There are many didactics possibilities from the photography, both printed as projected in the media or on TV Pen-drive, as well as the photographs from blogs and photoblogs. They are ways that can be inserted daily at the school. The selection of photographs appropriate to the activity is very important, as well the teacher must be able to promote debates with the students for a critical analysis of the photographs, unveiling the photography meanings, correlating the images with the lesson theme and with the pedagogical objectives intended.
A imagem fotográfica é, sobretudo, uma tentativa de unificação e superação da fragmentação e a compartimentação dos saberes e tem como objeto a educação para o ambiente. Esta dissertação traz como discussão algumas possibilidades didáticas no uso da fotografia como recurso metodológico de ensino, voltado à sensibilização para a questão ambiental e capacitação crítica do aluno. Trabalhamos com 26 alunos - sendo 18 alunos-autores e 8 alunos-não-autores das fotografias - na disciplina de Geografia no Ensino Médio, do Colégio Dr. Eduardo Virmond Suplicy, da rede pública de ensino de Francisco Beltrão/PR. A pesquisa foi estruturada por meio da captação e posterior análise de fotografias da paisagem da cidade. Para compreendermos melhor como o recurso da imagem e da fotografia estão sendo usados em sala de aula, 8 professores atuantes e 1 não atuante participaram como sujeitos da pesquisa. Destes sujeitos, 8 são licenciados em Geografia e 1 em Artes e ministram disciplinas em áreas variadas, no Ensino Fundamental, Médio e Superior da rede pública e privada de ensino, do estado do Paraná. No total fizeram parte 35 sujeitos, sendo 26 alunos e 9 professores. Buscamos avaliar o potencial didático da fotografia no ensino e na Educação Ambiental e elaboramos um acervo de imagens digitais que está disponível em DVD (no anexo). As possibilidades didáticas da fotografia são muitas, tanto a impressa, quanto a projetada no multimídia e na TV Pen-drive, como as fotografias dos blogs e fotoblogs. São formas que podem ser inseridas no dia-a-dia da escola. Um dos principais critérios é a seleção das fotografias adequadas à atividade e que o professor consiga proporcionar debates com os alunos para a análise critica destas fotografias; desvelar os seus sentidos e significados e correlacionar estas imagens fotográficas com a temática da aula e com os objetivos pedagógicos a serem alcançados.
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Cardoso, Wagner Innocencio. "As relações raciais na parede: sentir – pensar a geografia pela fotografia." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/153239.
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A presente pesquisa buscou compreender como o ensino de Geografia e a Fotografia interagiram na formação de jovens, do Ensino Médio, em uma construção coletiva de reforço de cidadania, com foco na luta contra o preconceito racial. Centramo-nos nas Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais para a educação das relações raciais e a Lei 10.639. O marco teórico desta investigação encontra aporte nos seguintes autores: Boris Kossoy, Vilém Flusser, Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães e Renato Emerson dos Santos. Os conceitos utilizados são fotografia, cidadania, ensino de geografia e raça. O principal objetivo é evidenciar e compreender de que maneira as relações entre vivências diárias e falas recorrentes, na nossa sociedade, estão relacionadas a casos de racismo do dia a dia. As experiências foram traduzidas a partir de provocações relacionadas à prática de ensino que se transformou em relatos, rodas de conversas, fotografias, oficinas sobre os grandes nomes da fotografia e suas intencionalidades ao fotografar. Essa serie de possibilidades e enfoques acabou por ser materializada em uma exposição de fotos dos educandos dentro e fora do Instituto de Educação. Os procedimentos metodológicos foram: revisão bibliográfica, pesquisa junto aos estudantes, rodas de conversa, trabalho coletivo, ação efetiva, exposição de resultados com imagens, questionário com os envolvidos e análise das respostas que nos permitem avançar na proposta de cidadania construída dentro da escola pelos estudantes com os professores.This research sought to understand how the teaching of Geography and Photography interacted in the formation of young people, high school, in a collective construction of citizenship reinforcement, focusing on the fight against racial prejudice. We focus on the National Guidelines for the education of race relations and the Law 10.639. The theoretical framework of this research is input the following authors: Boris Kossoy, Flusser, Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães and Emerson Renato dos Santos. The concepts used are photography, citizenship, geography education and race. The main objective is to highlight and understand how the relationship between daily experiences and recurring lines in our society, are related to cases of racism every day. Experiments were translated from provocations related to teaching practice that turned into stories, wheels conversations, photographs, workshops on the big picture names and their intentions when shooting. This series of possibilities and approaches turned out to be materialized in a photo exhibition of the students inside and outside the Institute of Education. The methodological procedures were: literature review, survey of students, conversation circles, collective work, effective action, display image results, questionnaire with stakeholders and analysis of the responses that allow us to advance the proposed citizens built within the school by students with teachers.
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Wigmore, Oliver Henry Wigmore. "Assessing Spatiotemporal Variability in Glacial Watershed Hydrology: Integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Field Hydrology, Cordillera Blanca, Peru." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1471854919.
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Wells, James Edward II. "Western landscapes, western images: a rephotography of U.S. Highway 89." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13524.
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The American West is a land of great diversity and stark contrast. It is also a landscape marked by rapid change as a result of such forces as globalization, population growth, and heightened interest in natural resources (either for recreation or extraction). This dissertation investigates these changes to the region through a repeat photography analysis. Between 1982 and 1984, Thomas and Geraldine Vale traveled along U.S. Highway 89 from Glacier National Park, Montana to Nogales, Arizona. Their subsequent work, Western Images, Western Landscapes: Travels Along U.S. 89 (University of Arizona Press, 1989), contained fifty-three photographs from this journey, representing a cross section of the West from border to border. Nearly every facet of the region was represented, from the remote prairie landscapes of Montana to the bustling Phoenix downtown, and from the largest open pit mine in the world to seldom visited corners of Yellowstone National Park. Between March 2009 and August 2010, I retraced the steps taken by the Vales and successfully rephotographed all of the locations contained within their book. The observed continuity or change is examined thematically in order to address the landscapes and cultures of the West in greater detail. Specifically, chapters within this dissertation visually and textually describe changes that have occurred along national borders, within Native American reservations, throughout the rural landscapes and national parks of the region, within the many resource extraction industries, and within towns and cities of every size. Significant findings, which are well depicted in the photographic pairings, include heightened national security along the borders, problems of overuse in many parks and protected areas, the transition of traditional small towns into communities increasingly dependent upon tourism for survival, and both beautification and revitalization efforts taking place in the urban cores of Phoenix and Salt Lake City. By painting a vivid picture of recent Western geography, this research provides for greater ability for residents and scholars of the region to understand the forces at work within their communities and surroundings.
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Mansano, Letícia Pavesi. "Desenvolvimento de um método que aplica realidade aumentada em imagens aéreas." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2013. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/612.
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CAPESEsta dissertação apresenta o método RAIA – Realidade Aumentada em Imagens Aéreas – que foi desenvolvido para inserir informações disponíveis sobre uma imagem aérea, com o objetivo de facilitar as atividades que envolvem a análise das imagens capturadas por meio de câmeras fixadas em aeronaves. Além disso, atualmente são comercializados produtos que oferecem a funcionalidade de complementar imagens aéreas com informações, porém existem poucos registros acadêmicos sobre este tipo de aplicação e não foram encontrados registros que detalhem metodologias que complementem com Realidade Aumentada imagens adquiridas de câmeras fixadas em aeronaves. Nas imagens processadas pelo método é empregado o conceito de Realidade Aumentada, pois é exibida uma junção de objetos virtuais, que representam informações sobre o local que está sendo capturado, e a própria imagem. Isto é feito por meio do cálculo do georreferenciamento da imagem, ou seja, são determinadas as coordenadas geográficas de cada pixel. O método foi avaliado com uma ferramenta protótipo em que foram executados testes, que foram subdivididos em três casos de estudo. Estes casos foram empregados para avaliar a precisão com que o método sobrepõe informações às imagens capturadas a distâncias próximas do solo, por satélite e em uma situação real de supervisão aérea. Os resultados da avaliação do método RAIA apontaram erro de posicionamento de informações de aproximadamente 5 metros para imagens capturadas com pouca inclinação em uma operação real de supervisão e aproximadamente 40 metros para imagens capturadas com inclinação superior a 40°.
This dissertation presents the method RAIA - Augmented Reality in Aerial Images - which was developed to insert available information on an aerial image. The goal is to facilitate the activities involving the analysis of the images captured by cameras fixed on aircraft. Also, there are currently selling products that offer the functionality to complement aerial images with information, although there are few academic records on this type of application and no records were found that detail methodologies that complement with Augmented Reality images acquired from cameras fixed on aircraft. In the images processed by the method is employed the concept of Augmented Reality, because it is displayed a junction of virtual objects, that represent information about the site being captured, and the image itself. This is done by calculating the image georeferencing, which means that the geographic coordinates are determined for each pixel. The method was evaluated in tests on a prototype tool. These tests were divided into three case studies that were used to measure the accuracy that the method overrides information for images captured at distances close to the ground, captured from satellite cameras and in a real aerial surveillance situation. The positioning error results presented by RAIA, in a real aerial surveillance situation, were about approximately 5 meters for images captured with little inclination. Images captured with inclination greater than 40° showed positioning errors of approximately 40 meters.
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Leedy, Alison J. "Interpretations of the Politics of Fictive Landscapes in Context: A Comparison of Allan Sekula's Sketch on a Geography Lesson and Martha Rosler's In the Place of the Public Airport Series." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/197472.
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Interpretations of the Politics of Fictive Landscapes in Context: A Comparison of Allan Sekula's Sketch on a Geography Lesson and Martha Rosler's In the Place of the Public Airport Series Throughout this thesis project I examine the geopolitical context(s) of the photographs featured in Martha Rosler's 'In the Place of the Public Airport Series' (1983) and Allan Sekula's series, 'Sketch on a Geography Lesson' (1982). I investigate the manner in which they question the legitimacy of the genre of documentary photography within the post-modern age by emphasizing the documentation of an actual physical place, presenting an alternative to the post-modern notion of photograph merely as another component of simulacra, or the intentional creation of an image without meaning or origin. By looking at photographs that Rosler and Sekula made during the burgeoning stages of post-modern theory, presents a broader interpretation of the development of Marxist documentary photography from the early 1980's to today. One way in which I dialogue with the discourse surrounding documentary photography in the 1980's is to focus on Rosler's and Sekula's intentional choice of material that emphasizes the political dialogue rather than concepts that are abstract and maintain no reference to real life. Furthermore, the period of the 1980's is considered a point in contemporary art history when the political fervor of the 1960's and early 1970's diminished greatly. Departing from this trend, Rosler's and Sekula's work continues to address political ideas throughout the 1980's, creating a bridge to today's photographers, such as Edward Burtynsky and Andreas Gursky who consider aesthetics from a socio-political perspective.
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Cele, Sofia. "Communicating Place : Methods for Understanding Children's Experience of Place." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-20088.
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This dissertation explores how children communicate their experiences of place. It focuses on the qualitative methods of group interviews, walks, drawings and photographs, and asks how children communicate different aspects of place. Drawing on feminist theory and qualitative methodology, the importance of situated knowledge for understanding children’s narratives is argued. Through studies in Sweden and England, it is shown how children’s place experiences are multi-dimensional, consisting of both concrete and abstract processes, places and objects. The different methods reveal different aspects of these dimensions and the children provided rich evidence of their experience of place in regard to physical, social and cultural aspects. It is found that children’s individuality affects the success of the methods, rather than factors such as gender, age or nationality. The methods’ different characteristics, such as creative and interactive aspects, and how power relations are reflected through them are determining factors as to how and what children communicate. Place-interactive methods allow children to communicate the direct experience of place and include subconscious actions as communication occurs through movement and play. The creative aspects of the methods allow children to focus more on their abstract experiences and to include experiences based on a wider time perspective than the present. Walking is discussed as a critical method for the researcher to include place as an active and multi-sensuous phenomenon. As it is shown that the methods reveal different aspects of the children’s place experiences, it is also discussed how this can be used from an adult perspective.
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Bottomley, Edward-John. "Governing 'Poor Whites' : race, philanthropy and transnational governmentality between the United States and South Africa." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270079.
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Throughout the twentieth century so-called Poor Whites caused anxiety in countries where racial domination was crucial, such as South Africa, the colonies of European empire and the United States. The Poor Whites were troubling for a number of reasons, not least because they threatened white prestige and the entire system of racial control. The efforts of various governments, organisations and experts to discipline, control and uplift the group necessarily disadvantaged other races. These controls, such as colour bars and Jim Crow laws, had an enormous effect on the countries where the Poor Whites were seen as a problem. The results can still be seen in the profoundly unequal contemporary racial landscape, and which is given expression by protest groups such as Black Lives Matter. Yet the efforts to manage the Poor Whites have thus far been examined on a national basis — as a problem of the United States, or of South Africa, to name just the most significant locales and regimes. This dissertation attempts to expand our understanding of the geography of the Poor Whites by arguing that the ‘Poor White Problem’ was a transnational concern rooted in racial interests that transcended national concerns. The racial solidarity displayed by so-called ‘white men’s countries’ was also extended to the Poor Whites. Efforts to control and discipline the population were thus in service of the white race as a whole, and ignored national interests and national borders. The transnational management of the Poor Whites was done through a network of transnational organisations such as the League of Nations and the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as the careering experts they employed. The dissertation argues that these attempts constituted a transnational ‘governmentality’ according to which these organisations and their experts attempted to discipline a Poor White population that they viewed as transnational in order to uphold white prestige and tacitly maintain both global and local racial systems. This dissertation examines some of the ways in which Poor Whites were disciplined and racially rehabilitated. It examines health and sanitation, education and training, housing standards and the management of urban space, and finally photographic representation.
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Jones, Jessica Elizabeth. "Getting Warmer." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2098.
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This thesis is in support of the exhibition entitled Getting Warmer, on display in Slocumb Galleries at East Tennessee State University from March 19 to March 23, 2007. The exhibition represents an exploration in the medium of fibers, incorporating digitally printed photographs on fabric and quilted structures. The collage of photographic textures and the stitched lines of machine embroidery reflect the artist's interest in the formal qualities of mapmaking and topography. Conceptually, the work is concerned with the idea of material as landscape and artwork as personal geography. This thesis addresses the artistic and cultural influences, the artistic process and previous works, and the conceptual development of the work.
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Ferraby, Rose. "Stone exposures : a cultural geology of the Jurassic Coast." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18951.
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People have varied and complex relationships with stone, in its raw geology and in its altered forms. Often, however, in cultural contexts, stone remains in the background, as a taken for granted and unremarkable element of the material world. In this thesis, stone moves into the foreground. The research presented here explores how close attention to those who work intimately with stone can disclose unexpected and absorbing stories. The cultural geologies extracted and presented in this thesis cast light on the diversity of ways in which people relate to, and with, the land; and experiment with a range of different ways in which these relations can be narrated. Set on the Jurassic Coast, in the south west of England, the stone exposures that emerge along the margin between land and sea offer a productive site for developing a cultural geological approach. The limestones, shales and clays are framed, in this work, by the narratives of quarrymen and geologists. The work explores how their particular knowledges are formed, and how they exist within wider historical and ecological understandings. Their narratives bring the stratigraphy to life, and draw attention to the hidden worlds within it. The different priorities and perspectives of quarrymen and geologists are shown to lead in different directions, interweave, or run parallel. The very specific languages and descriptions they employ reveal a level of complexity and richness of detail that is mirrored in the stone. Using an approach that combines close observation and creative practice, this study examines stone at a variety of scales, and in different contexts. The work engages with specific stone types, landscapes, voids, buildings and objects. Processes of working stone through practices of lettering, sculpture and masonry elicit understandings of the material that reach far beneath its surface. The absent spaces of quarries are then explored, showing how voids can be animated with knowledge, and how destructive processes can generate creative potential, when sensitively worked and considered. Lastly, the study draws all these ideas together in a discussion of stone assemblages in buildings, to see how voices from geology and quarrying can foster greater understanding of how buildings were constructed in the past, and how we conserve them into the future.
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Brandt, Nicola. "Emerging landscapes : memory, trauma and its afterimage in post-apartheid Namibia and South Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9dfe7938-670a-40fc-a063-5617c0503fcd.
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Visual records of place remain to a large degree inadequate when attempting to make visible the ephemeral states of consciousness that underlie the damage wrought by brutal regimes, let alone make visible the extraordinary histories and power structures encoded in images and views. This practice-led dissertation examines an emerging critical landscape genre in post-apartheid South Africa and Namibia, and its relationship to specific themes such as identity, belonging, trauma and memory. The landscape genre was traditionally considered inadequate to use in expressions of resistance under apartheid, particularly in the socially conscious and reformist discourse of South African documentary photography. I argue that, as a result of historical and cultural shifts after the demise of apartheid in 1994, a shift in aesthetic and subject matter has occurred, one that has led to a more rigorous and interventionist engagement with the landscape genre. I demonstrate how, after 1994, photographers of the long-established documentary tradition, which was meant to record 'what is there' in a sharp, clear, legible and impartial manner, would continue to draw on devices of the documentary aesthetic, but in a more idiosyncratic way. I show how these post-apartheid, documentary landscapes both disrupt and complicate the conventional expectations involved in converting visual fields into knowledge. I further investigate, through my own experimental documentary work, the ideologically fraught aspects of landscape representation with their links to Calvinist and German Romantic aesthetics. I appropriate and disrupt certain tropes still prevalent in popular landscape depictions. I do this in an effort to reveal the complex and troubled relationship that these traditions share with issues of willed historical amnesia and recognition in contemporary Namibia. Through my practice and the examination of other photographers' and artists' work, this project aims to further a self-reflective and critical approach to the genre of landscape and issues of identity in post-apartheid South Africa and Namibia.