Constant-Scale Natural Boundary Mapping to Reveal Global and Cosmic Processes
A New Paradigm for Providing Insights into Physical Processes
(Sprache: Englisch)
Whereas conventional maps can be expressed as outward-expanding formulae with well-defined central features and relatively poorly defined edges, Constant Scale Natural Boundary (CSNB) maps have well-defined boundaries that result from natural processes and...
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Whereas conventional maps can be expressed as outward-expanding formulae with well-defined central features and relatively poorly defined edges, Constant Scale Natural Boundary (CSNB) maps have well-defined boundaries that result from natural processes and thus allow spatial and dynamic relationships to be observed in a new way useful to understanding these processes. CSNB mapping presents a new approach to visualization that produces maps markedly different from those produced by conventional cartographic methods. In this approach, any body can be represented by a 3D coordinate system. For a regular body, with its surface relatively smooth on the scale of its size, locations of features can be represented by definite geographic grid (latitude and longitude) and elevation, or deviation from the triaxial ellipsoid defined surface. A continuous surface on this body can be segmented, its distinctive regional terranes enclosed, and their inter-relationships defined, by using selected morphologically identifiable relief features (e.g., continental divides, plate boundaries, river or current systems). In this way, regions of distinction on a large, essentially spherical body can be mapped as two-dimensional 'facets' with their boundaries representing regional to global-scale asymmetries (e.g., continental crust, continental and oceanic crust on the Earth, farside original thicker crust and nearside thinner impact punctuated crust on the Moon). In an analogous manner, an irregular object such as an asteroid, with a surface that is rough on the scale of its size, would be logically segmented along edges of its impact-generated faces.
Bounded faces are imagined with hinges at occasional points along boundaries, resulting in a foldable 'shape model.' Thus, bounded faces grow organically out of the most compelling natural features. Obvious boundaries control the map's extremities, and peripheral regions are not dismembered or grosslydistorted as in conventional map
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projections. 2D maps and 3D models grow out of an object's most obvious face or terrane 'edges,' instead of arbitrarily by imposing a regular grid system or using regularly shaped facets to represent an irregular surface.
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Chapter One: Constant-Scale Natural Boundary Mapping in Context.- Chapter Two: CSNB Mapping Technique.- Chapter Three: Interpretation of CSNB Maps.- Chapter Four: Mapping the Earth.- Chapter Five: CSNB Mapping Applied to Other Regular Bodies.- Chapter Six: CSNB Mapping Applied to Irregular Bodies.- Chapter Seven: Mapping the Sky.- Chapter Eight: The Future of CSNB Mapping.Autoren-Porträt von Pamela Elizabeth Clark, Chuck Clark
Pamela Clark obtained a B.A. from St. Joseph College and her PhD in planetary geochemistry from the University of Maryland. She worked at GSFC/NASA outside of Washington DC and the Astrogeology Branch of the USGS in Flagstaff, Arizona, simulating, analyzing, correlating, and interpreting lunar X-ray spectra. After completing her PhD, she worked at NASA/JPL outside of Los Angeles for awhile and eventually returned to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a member of the XGRS team on the NEAR mission to asteroid Eros. Currently a faculty member at Catholic University associated with NASA/GSFC, Dr. Clark led teams that developed science operational requirements in support of Project Constellation, and continues to be a team lead for a number of groups attempting to develop new hardware and software technologies and paradigms for space exploration. Dr. Clark has done several stints in academic institutions, including Murray State University in Kentucky, Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, and Catholic University in Washington DC. She has developed courses in remote sensing, analytical and environmental chemistry, geochemistry, physical geology, mineralogy, optics, planetary astronomy, and physics. She is also the Managing Editor of the Springer Open journal Planetary Science.Chuck Clark is an architect based in Atlanta, Georgia who, as part of his childhood apprenticeship in his chosen profession, first attempted to invent a new way to make world maps when he was six years old, inspired by the memorable charge of his apprentice-master to "make me a world map a heron can use to get to Brazil." He finally stumbled onto a novel approach, at the age of forty-four, after gaining proficiency in the Renaissance geometrical techniques of orthographic and perspective projection, when challenged to find - or construct - a world map able to display particular global symmetries and asymmetries in the distribution of land and water on Earth, easily discernable by
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examination of a globe but difficult to render on common flat maps. Success lead to the creation of a world map displaying ocean watersheds and to discussions with Athelstand Spilhaus, inventor of world maps with natural boundaries, from which Clark came to the realization that his odd methodology was distinct from the 450-year-old traditions of conventional cartographic projections, and was characterized by a rigid metric at the map edge, and a loose association of points in the map field.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Pamela Elizabeth Clark , Chuck Clark
- 2013, 2013, X, 116 Seiten, 30 farbige Abbildungen, Masse: 15,5 x 23,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 1461477611
- ISBN-13: 9781461477617
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Englisch
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