Britains best-selling secondary school atlas. Philips Modern School Atlas is divided into sections for ease of use, with each page colour-coded for rapid reference. A 10-page Remote Sensing section covers such topics as satellite imagery & GIS (with an explanation of false-colour usage), incorporating a selection of images used in studies of exploration, land reclamation, erosion, geology & pollution, with explanatory text. The next section covers the United Kingdom & Ireland in 32 pages. With physically coloured maps, this is the most accurate mapping of the UK & Ireland available at the chosen scales
- accompanying the physical maps are thematic maps on numerous key social & economic themes. The middle section is made up of 74 pages of World topographical maps, incorporating continental thematic maps on topics such as climate, population & economics, followed by World thematic maps. Completing the atlas is a section of World social & economic statistics, accompanied by the index to the topographical maps in the atlas, showing letter-figure grid references as well as latitude & longitude co-ordinates. Philips Modern School Atlas is an unbeatable combination of highly detailed physical mapping backed up by numerous tables & thematic maps.