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Senior Cartographic Librarian, Geography and Map Division
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John Hessler is currently Senior Cartographic Librarian in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Society for Archaeogeography, he is the recent recipient of a J.L. Heiberg Research and Exploration Fellowship and is currently studying the physical remains of Roman centuriation and surveying in Southern France and North Africa. Combining fieldwork with historical data and epigraphic evidence, along with the latest GIS computer technology, Hessler is at work on the first complete survey of the physical remains of Roman mapping. While at the Library of Congress, much of his research has concentrated on the use of computer modeling, especially radial basis functions and thin-plate splines, in the analysis of Roman, Medieval and Renaissance cartography. The majority of this research is concerned with the problems of mathematically defining the geometric and structural properties of historic map projections and representations and with the problem of georectification of historical maps.
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