num_pages: 298
description: 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 zoologist and botanist make.; Landscape Ecology and Geographical Information Systems is international in scope provides an overview of operational applications and offers experiences in the form of case studies of applications to vegetation animals and hydrology. The book is organized into four sections. It - provides an overview of the uses of GIS and RSS in landscape ecology; debates conceptual issues such applications throw up; considers analytical techniques and technical issues; and offers experiences in the form of Case Studies On Plant Abiotic And Animal Landscape Ecology.
language: English
title: Landscape Ecology and Geographical Information Systems
publisher: CRC Press