Spatial Computing

by Shashi Shekhar and Pamela Vold

Book Overview

An accessible guide to the ideas and technologies underlying such applications as GPS, Google Maps, Pok mon Go, ride-sharing, driverless cars, and drone surveillance.

Billions of people around the globe use various applications of spatial computing daily--by using a ride-sharing app, GPS, the e911 system, social media check-ins, even Pok mon Go. Scientists and researchers use spatial computing to track diseases, map the bottom...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262538040
• ISBN13: 9780262538046
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 6.9"