Mapper is built in functionality for distance and area calculations, raster blending, feathering, spectral analysis and contrast adjustment, elevation querying, line of sight calculations, cut-and-fill volume calculations, as well as advanced capabilities like image rectification, contour generation from surface data, view shed analysis (including Fresnel) from surface data, terrain layer comparison (including differencing), and triangulation and gridding of 3D point data.

Take control of your global game development team and make successful AAA game titles using the Distributed Development model. Game industry veteran Tim Fields teaches you how to evaluate game deals, how to staff teams for highly distributed game development, and how to maintain challenging relationships in order to get great games to market. This book is filled with interviews with a broad spectrum of industry experts from top game publishers and business owners in the US and UK.

Skateboarding icon Tony Hawk plays host for this entertaining documentary chronicling the video-game craze and how it mushroomed from a pastime for computer mavericks to a multibillion-dollar business. Beginning with Pong in the 1970s and industry luminaries such as Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, the film explores each era of gaming - from coin-operated classics through the evolution of sound and graphics to the modern home-computer market.

An Inconvenient Truth and BBC s Climate Wars have met their match: The Great Global Warming Swindle has now been viewed by millions of people, and despite its flamboyant title, it is based on sound science and interviews with real climate scientists who ve left politics aside to tell us what they really think of global warming climate change and whether it s real science or political hype. Have a look at the other side of one of the globe s most hotly debated issues and perhaps you won t be left out in the cold & looking foolish when global cooling sets in.

Fusing raw hip hop know how with dancehall flavor, island instrumentation, and soca infused beats has made for one of the most exciting crossovers in modern music. Culturally potent and technically versatile, Global Groove: International Hip Hop Flavor is filled to the brim with all the elements you need to develop your next urban masterpiece. Crack open any folder and get busy creating your own funky precedent.

Conflict: Global Terror brings the Conflict series into the 21st century and is set in the immediate future within the modern day context of counter-terrorism. The game features a completely rewritten engine, with radically enhanced graphics, brand-new ragdoll and driving physics, an online engine, refined order system, highly detailed characters, contemporary weaponry and equipment and extensive use of high-quality cinematic sequences.