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During the last three decades geosciences and geo-engineering were influenced by two essential scenarios: First, the technological progress has changed completely the observational and measurement techniques. Modern high speed computers and satellite based techniques are entering more and more all geodisciplines. Second, there is a growing public concern about the future of our planet, its climate, its environment, and about an expected shortage of natural resources. Obviously, both aspects, viz. efficient strategies of protection against threats of a changing Earth and the exceptional situation of getting terrestrial, airborne as well as spaceborne data of better and better quality explain the strong need of new mathematical structures, tools, and methods. Mathematics concerned with geoscientific problems, i.e., Geomathematics, is becoming increasingly important. The ‘Handbook Geomathematics’ as a central reference work in this area comprises the following scientific fields: (I) observational and measurement key technologies (II) modelling of the system Earth (geosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere) (III) analytic, algebraic, and operator-theoretic methods (IV) statistical and stochastic methods (V) computational and numerical analysis methods (VI) historical background and future perspectives.
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Handbook of Geomathematics
Willi Freeden, M. Zuhair Nashed, Thomas Sonar (Eds.)
Handbook of Geomathematics Volume
With Figures and Tables
123
Willi Freeden Geomathematics Group Technische Universität Kaiserslautern P. O. Box Kaiserslautern Germany M. Zuhair Nashed Department of Mathematics University of Central Florida Orlando, FL USA Thomas Sonar Computational Mathematics Technische Universität Braunschweig Pockelsstraße Braunschweig Germany
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Preface
Mathematics concerned with problems of geoscientifical relevance, i.e., geomathematics, is becoming increasingly important. Surprisingly, there is no authoritative mathematical forum offering appropriate means of assimilating, assessing, and reducing to comprehensible form the readily increasing flow of data from geochemical, geodetic, geological, geophysical, and satellite sources and providing an objective basis for scientific interpretation, classification, testing of concepts, modeling, simulation, and solution of problems. Therefore, it seems that the stage is set for a “Handbook of Geomathematics” as