Mountains from Space: Peaks and Ranges of the Seven Continents - Couverture rigide

Dech, Stefan; Messner, Reinhold; Glaser, Rudiger; Martin, Ralf-Peter

 
9780810959613: Mountains from Space: Peaks and Ranges of the Seven Continents
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0810959615 ISBN 13 : 9780810959613
Editeur : Harry N. Abrams, 2005

Synopsis

The mountains have always been very special regions - the scenes of myths and the seats of the gods, spaces to retreat to and strategic bulwarks, but also places of natural and cultural diversity and multivarious living conditions over small areas. This book takes a completely new and unique look at the world's mountains. It brings together pictures that have been produced by computer on the basis of a new type of unusually precise satellite measurements and provides views never seen before. It was not until the year 2000 that the earth's surface was first surveyed systematically and completely by satellite radar on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. This made it possible to show every area with hitherto unknown precision and to produce views in perspective, which in reality are not possible for practical reasons n as if one were flying at a great height and seeing an infinite distance unhampered by clouds, haze and the refraction of light. mountains - their genesis by volcanic activity and the collisions of continental tectonic plates; their role in the emergence of ecological diversity; their function for the weather and climate, their susceptibility to natural catastrophes, their specific sociological features.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

Professor Stephan Dech holds a teaching chair for remote exploration at the University of Wurtzburg. Rudiger Glasser is a climate researcher and holds the teaching chair for physical geography at the University of Freiburg. World-renowned mountaineer Reinhold Messner shares his unique perspective and experience along with other mountaineers like Stephen Venables, Christopher Profit, and Alexander Huber.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Harry N. Abrams
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0810959615
ISBN 13 
9780810959613
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
244
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
WordUnited GmbH
distribution@wordunited.com

Theodorstrasse 105
DUSSELDORF
40472
Allemagne