eBook - ePub
Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers
- 414 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub
Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers
About this book
Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers provides a resource for developing knowledge and skills concerning GIS as it applies to forestry and natural resource management. This book helps readers understand how GIS can effectively be used by professional foresters and land managers to conduct spatial analyses or address management decisions. Through topics presented, readers will improve their ability to understand GIS data sources, identify GIS data types and quality, perform common spatial analysis processes, create GIS data, produce maps, and ultimately develop the skills necessary to use GIS analysis to answer real-world questions.
This book will be of great benefit to GIS users looking to directly apply techniques to real-world data or foresters and natural resource scientists who use GIS in their research.
- Presents unique reflections, diversions, inspections and translations within the text to encourage readers' critical thinking skills
- Includes a companion website to enhance the reflections, diversions, inspections and translations with additional resources
- Designed with examples, discussions and case studies from seasoned natural resource professionals with decades of combined professional experience
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedications
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- 1 : Geographic information systems
- 2 : Geographic data
- 3 : Reference systems
- 4 : Making maps
- 5 : Geographic data collection
- 6 : Geographic data management
- 7 : Geographic data processingāvector data
- 8 : Geographic data processingāraster data
- 9 : Remote sensing
- 10 : Advanced applications in forestry and natural resource management
- 11 : Professional practices
- Appendix: questions
- Index
- A
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Yes, you can access Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers by Krista Merry,Pete Bettinger,Michael Crosby,Kevin Boston in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Environmental Science. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.