Product Description
TerraAtlas™ is a collection of atlases of high quality aerial photography that features selected venues from the American landscape. The first title in this series is TerraAtlas: Central Washington, DC, an aerial photographic atlas of the administrative, historical, intellectual, and emotional heart of our nation's capital and the adjoining part of Arlington County, Virginia. Among the architectural landmarks and other special places featured in this atlas are the major buildings of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the federal government; the National Mall and the museums of the Smithsonian Institution; Washington's administrative, financial, and commercial districts; Rock Creek Park and the National Zoo; the Potomac and Anacostia rivers and their bordering waterfronts; Arlington National Cemetery; most embassies of other nations; historic Georgetown; and numerous residential neighborhoods scattered throughout the covered area. Vividly depicted in this atlas are the patterns of content, function, color, and texture that characterize the dynamic and varied urban landscape of Washington and Arlington.
About the Author
Dr. Naphtali David Rishe received an M.S. in computer science at the Israel Institute of Technology in 1981, and his Ph.D. in computer science at Tel Aviv University in 1984. Since 1987, Rishe has been a professor at the School of Computer Science and founder/director of the High Performance Database Research Center at the Florida International University in Miami. Prior to this, he served as visiting professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara in the Computer Science Department.
