Format:
Online-Ressource (329 p)
ISBN:
9780748402526
Content:
The landscape we see and live in is an important part or our everyday lives, be they urban or rural. Environmental concern has grown in recent years, as a result of public awareness of the detrimental impact industry, transport and tourism can have on the ecosystem. This book examines the role of the new technologies of geographical information systems and remote sensing as media for the study of landscape, as they provide tools of unprecedented power which collect, store, manipulate and analyze data so as to support and assist the decisions which the environmental scientist, ecologist, zoolog
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BookCover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgement; 1 Landscape ecology and geographical information systems; 2 The role of geographic information systems for landscape ecological studies; 3 Landscape ecology, geographic information systems and nature conservation; 4 The tradition of landscape ecology in Czechoslovakia; 5 Equilibrium landscapes and their aftermath: spatial heterogeneity and the role of new technology; 6 Hierarchy in ecology: its relevance to landscape ecology and geographic information systems
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7 Landscape response units: process-based self-organising systems8 Problems of sampling the landscape; 9 A methodology for acquiring information on vegetation succession from remotely sensed imagery; 10 Landscape structural analysis of central Belgium using SPOT data; 11 Using cover-type likelihoods and typicalities in a geographic information system data structure to map gradually changing environments; 12 The use of remote sensing (SPOT) for the survey of ecological patterns, applied to two different ecosystems in Belgium and Zaire
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13 Managing environmental radioactivity monitoring data: a geographic information system approach14 Using hydrological models and geographic information systems to assist with the management of surface water in agricultural landscapes; 15 The effects of management on heath and mire hydrology: a framework for a geographic information system approach; 16 Use of geographic information systems for interpreting land-use policy and modelling effects of land-use change; 17 Effects of beaver and moose on boreal forest landscapes
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18 The ecological interpretation of satellite imagery with special reference to bird habitats19 The use of landscape models for the prediction of the environmental impact of forestry; Index
Additional Edition:
9780203393031
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Landscape Ecology And Geographical Information Systems
Language:
English
Keywords:
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