The Foundation focuses on the alpine karst areas of North America and the rest of the world, mapping mountain cave systems and studying their physical, geological, biological, anthropological, and ecological aspects.
Pittman hopes to sell product licenses to companies and institutions that need help mapping their mountains of structured data, such as an Oracle database, as well as unstructured data such as e-mail and instant messages.
To map the mountains of East Tennessee, the Coast Survey turned to Arnold Guyot, a Swiss geographer who had moved to the United States in 1848 and had spent every summer hiking the Appalachian range.
Within a couple of years worth of bike rides, Wallace has forged a virtual mountain of map art.
Finally, a terrain classification scheme based on cluster analysis was implemented and the landscape of the study area was mapped on the basis of mountain geomorphometry.
The potential and limits of remotely sensed data for the detection and mapping of mountain pine beetle impacts, over a range of attack stages, are identified and synthesized.
Endpaper sketch-maps of mountain ranges led on to stories of thrilling ascents, love, camaraderie and derring-do on mountains around the world.
Chellie LaFayette, the physical education teacher at Roxhill Elementary in Seattle, used an iPad purchased with a federal grant to show her students pictures of the Iditarod sled dog race and maps of mountain ranges for which she had named routes on a climbing wall.
For four years, he prepared designs for new bridges and fortifications in the Scottish Highlands, accompanied survey teams over terrain that had recently been a war zone, and drew relief maps of mountains and coastlines, carefully marking out the new "king's roads" in red, the colour of a British soldier's uniform coat.
Also there is a veritable mountain of fan-made family trees and maps a mere Google-image search away.
