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Geographic Information Systems
Applications in Natural Resource Management
Second Edition
Michael G. Wing and Pete Bettinger
284 pages
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187 figures, 26 photos, 29 tables
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257x222mm
978-0-19-542610-6
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Paperback
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21 August 2008
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- Only book available that emphasizes GIS as a tool for professionals working in natural resource management, and is aimed at students who want to become educated users of the technology, not GIS programmers.
- Software Neutral: Teaches general principles and then applies them to various GIS software packages.
- Up to date information to include extended treatment of GPS integration with GIS, extensively used data structures, and raster database analysis.
- Pedagogically rich, containing chapter objectives and summaries, lab questions for each chapter, and "in depth" boxes scattered throughout the text. Also includes a glossary and lists of GIS-related professional organizations, journals, and software developers.
- This book is a second edition. The first edition was published by McGraw-Hill in the United States.
Geographic Information Systems: Applications in Natural Resource Management is intended for introductory-course students in forestry and natural resource management, field forestry, biology, and other natural resource or natural resource-related fields. The emphasis of this book is on the application of Geographic Information systems (GIS). It provides detailed coverage of GIS operations such as querying, buffering, clipping, and overlay analysis; as well as background information on the history of GIS, database creation, editing and acquisition, and map development. The applications provided can be extended to any
region of the world, although the primary emphasis is on Canada and the rest of North America. This book also examines current GIS trends, and the opportunities and challenges likely to face GIS users.Readership: Upper-level (3rd & 4th year) courses in GIS with a natural resources focus.
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Michael G. Wing, Assistant Professor, Forest Engineering Department, Oregon State University, USA, and Pete Bettinger, Associate Professor, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, USA
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Part I - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Databases and Map Design
1: Geographic Information Systems
2: GIS databases: map projections, structures, and scale
3: Acquiring, creating, and editing GIS databases
4: Map design
Part II - Applying GIS to Forestry and Natural Resource Management
5: Selecting landscape features
6: Obtaining information about a specific geographic region
7: Buffering landscape features
8: Combining and splitting landscape features, and merging gis databases
9: Associating spatial and non-spatial databas
10: Updating GIS databases
11: Overlay Processes
12: Synthesis of techniques applied to advanced topics
13: Raster GIS database analysis
14: Raster GIS database analysis II
Part III - Contemporary Issues in GIS
15: Trends in GIS technology
16: Institutional challenges and opportunities related to GIS
17: Certification and licensing of GIS users
Appendix A - Terminology
Appendix B - Organizations
Appendix C - Software
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