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Southwest Pacific historical map

open access: yes, 2004
1 poster : color ; 61 x 41 cm. Contains map showing Southwest Pacific area (SoWePac) with photographs of patrols in 2 kinds of terrain troops faced.
United States. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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Restoring delta resilience: phased socio‐ecological model for coastal recovery in Mediterranean Turkey

open access: yesRestoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Coastal delta regions experiencing long‐term ecological degradation and sudden natural disasters require restoration approaches that are adaptive, process‐based, and context‐specific. The Samandağ coastline in southern Turkey, part of the Mediterranean Asi River Delta, has faced hydrological disruption, habitat fragmentation, and ...
Banu Tomruk
wiley   +1 more source

D-Day historical map

open access: yes, 2004
1 poster : color ; 61 x 41 cm. Contains map of Normandy dated June 6, 1944 with Allied units positions inked in and photograph of soldiers superimposed.
United States. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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Form and precision in European maritime cartography, 1650-1850: a novel approach to the use of digital collections series in Economic History

open access: yes
This dissertation presents for the first time an integrated study of the quality of European cartographic representations of coastlines, ca. 1650 to 1850, and the methods and theory that make this study possible.
Pala, Giovanni Maria
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DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL MAPS: TECHNIQUES, APPLICATIONS AND PECULIARITIES

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Cartografia, 2013
Através de exemplos concretos, apresentam-se alguns auxílios que a Cartografia digital presta à Cartografia histórica. Destacam-se as diferenças de tratamento entre os mapas históricos e os atuais, através de alguns casos típicos, com suas dificuldades ...
Jorge Pimentel Cintra
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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
wiley   +1 more source

Aleutians historical map

open access: yes, 2004
1 poster : color ; 61 x 41 cm. Contains map of Kiska Island and picture of Raven Bay and Parrot Beach taken from a plane. Poster is part of a series displayed on Memorial Day, 2004, at dedication of National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C ...
United States. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Okinawa historical map

open access: yes, 2004
1 poster : color ; 61 x 41 cm. Contains map of preliminary beach sketch with photograph of patrol superimposed. Poster is part of a series displayed on Memorial Day, 2004, at dedication of National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., showing ...
United States. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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