Mount / Harvey / Aplin Representing, Modeling, and Visualizing the Natural Environment

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4200-5550-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Innovations in GIS

The explosion of public interest in the natural environment can, to a large extent, be attributed to greater public awareness of the impacts of global warming and climate change. This has led to increased research interest and funding directed at studies of issues affecting sensitive, natural environments. Not surprisingly, much of this work has required the innovative application of GIS and has led to a crucial research question: How should the environment be represented, modeled, analyzed, and visualized within a GIS?

With contributions from recognized international experts, Representing, Modeling, and Visualizing the Natural Environment explores the interplay between data representation, modeling, and visualization in environmental studies. It reviews state-of-the-art GIS applications for the natural environment and presents them in the context of a range of recent studies. This focus identifies analytical challenges and illustrates broader opportunities for applying GIS within other areas of the sciences and social sciences. The integrated approach reflects the need for a single volume covering all aspects

While many texts cover aspects of GIS application within an environmental context, few of these books focus specifically on the natural environment nor do they integrate the questions that encompass the full process of enquiry associated with GIS application in studies of the environment. The thirteenth volume in the widely recognized Innovations of GIS series, this book investigates each of these questions in turn, explicitly addressing all aspects of GIS application in the natural environment.

Zielgruppe

Researchers in universities, colleges, government agencies, and consultancies interested in environmental applications of GIS.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mount, Nick

Harvey, Gemma

Aplin, Paul

Priestnall, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geodäsie, Kartographie, GIS, Fernerkundung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geodäsie, Kartographie, Fernerkundung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
to Representing,
Modeling, and Visualizing the Natural Environment, G. Harvey,
N. Mount, P.
Aplin, and G. Priestnall



Representing
the Natural Environment

Keynote
Paper: Representation of
the Natural Environment, M. Duckham

Keynote
Paper: Representing
Surfaces in the Natural Environment: Implications for Research and
Geographical
Education, N. Waters

Developing
Ontologies from a
Domain Expert Perspective, F. Hemsley-Flint, G. Hart, J. Lee,
and S.
Thompson

The Spatial
Disaggregation of
Great Britain and European Agricultural Land Use, C.J. McClean

Comparing
Different Land Cover
Data Sets for Agricultural Monitoring in Africa, S. Fritz, L.
See, F.
Rembold, M. Massart, T. Nègre, and C. von Hagen

Using GIS to
Identify Wildland
Areas in the North Pennines, S. Blair, L. See, S. Carver, and
P. Samson

Representations
of Environmental
Data in Web-Based GIS, P. Mooney and A.C. Winstanley

Developing
and Applying a
Participative Web-Based GIS for Integration of Public Perceptions into
Strategic Environmental Assessment, A. Gonzalez, A. Gilmer,
R. Foley, J.
Sweeney, and J. Fry



Modeling
the Natural Environment

Keynote
Paper: Challenges for
Environmental Modeling, R. Aspinall

Keynote
Paper: Spatial Scale and
Neighborhood Size in Spatial Data Processing for Modeling the Natural
Environment, A-X. Zhu

Invited
Paper: Toward an Algebra
for Terrain-Based Flow Analysis, D.G. Tarboton and M.E. Baker

Spatial
Terrain Modeling, S.
Dalyot and Y. Doytsher

Regions and
Patterns of Forest
Change in Brazil, A. de las Heras and I.R. Lake

GM(1,1)-Kriging
Prediction of
Soil Dioxin Patterns, D. Guo, R. Guo, C. Thiart, and T. Oyana



Visualizing
the Natural Environment

Keynote
Paper: Information
Access, Depicting Geography, and Geographical Visualization Tools, W.E.
Cartwright

Keynote
Paper: Wiki Cartography
and the Visualization of the Natural, D.Z. Sui

Invited
Paper: GIS-Based
Landscape Visualization: The State of the Art, A. Lovett, K.
Appleton, and A.
Jones

Visualizing
Species Distributions,
D.J. Lieske and D.J. Bender

Visualizing
Risk for Hill Walkers,
A. Jardine and W. Mackaness

Using
Web-Based 3-D Visualization
for Planning Hikes Virtually, S. Bleisch and J. Dykes

PastureSim:

A Visualization Tool
for Pasture Management, C.E S. Rider and F.E. Reitsma

Index